Wauquiez Centurion 57

Summary

Best Suited For

• Liveaboard

  From the published figures: LOA 17.7 m · 3 cabins

Tags are derived from certified class, length, sail area, accommodation and tankage using the criteria described on the Sources page; an editor may add or remove one.

Sailing Ratios

Classic yacht-design ratios worked out from the builder's published figures, each shown against the bands designers read it by.

Most builders publish a light displacement. The ratios were defined on a loaded boat, so every boat here reads a little lighter than a surveyor's figure would — all alike, which keeps them comparable.

Dimensions

LOA

58.1 ft (17.7 m)

Hull length

—

LWL

50.6 ft (15.42 m)

Beam

16.2 ft (4.95 m)

Draft (min)

6.9 ft (2.1 m)

Draft (max)

7.5 ft (2.3 m)

Air draft

—

Displacement

—

Ballast

—

Cabins

3

Heads

—

Berths

—

Sail Plan

Main sail

—

Jib

—

Genoa

—

Sail area

—

Downwind sail area

—

Rig type

—

Engine and Tanks

Engine

110–150 hp

Engine count

—

Engine manufacturer

—

Propulsion type

shaft drive

Fuel capacity

—

Fresh water capacity

—

Black water capacity

—

Construction

Mast material

—

Hull material

—

Deck material

—

Keel type

—

Rudder type

—

Steering wheels

2

Builder's Own Figures

Bulb keel

2.50 m

About Wauquiez

Semi-custom

French builder of offshore-cruising sailing monohulls, founded in 1965 by Henri Wauquiez and based in Neuville-en-Ferrain, France.

Henri Wauquiez gave the yard his name in 1965 and spent his life building uncommon boats; the yard says it never took the industrial road, preferring to let the craft speak. The model list reads as its history. It opened with Holman & Pye designs -- the Elizabethan 29 of 1965, the Elizabethan 35 and Victorian of 1966, the Centurion 32 of 1968 -- then the Chance 37 in 1973, the Amphitrite in 1975, the Gladiateur in 1977, the Hood 38 in 1978 and the Pretorien in 1979, with the first boats of the yard's own drawing, the Antigua 34 and 37, in 1980 and 1981. Ed Dubois then shaped the line for two decades, from the Centurion 47 of 1984 through the 42, 38, 36 and 40 to the Centurion 59, 45 and 49 of 1990, the Centurion 61S and the Pilot Saloon 60 of 1991, and the Pilot Saloon 54, 48 and 43 that followed. Berret-Racoupeau took over from the Pilot Saloon 40 of 2000, drawing the 41, 47 and 55, the Centurion 40S.2, the Optio and the Centurion 57; Marc Lombard drew the Opium 39 of 2010 and, with Roseo, the Wauquiez 55 of 2024. These are offshore boats meant to be sailed: hulls infused for the resin-to-fibre ratio and the weight, decks and hulls in balsa sandwich for stiffness and for thermal and acoustic insulation.

The Wauquiez Range

Every model Wauquiez publishes, by length — where this one sits in the range.

1. Wauquiez Centurion 57· this model58.1 ft
2. Wauquiez Pilot Saloon 5858.1 ft
3. Wauquiez 5557.7 ft
4. Wauquiez Pilot Saloon 48e49 ft

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