Caliber 40 LRC Buyer's Guide
Shopping the brokerage market for a Caliber 40 LRC means looking at a Michael McCreary-designed long-range cruiser built around integral tankage and a solid hand-laid hull. The LRC name denotes the Long Range Cruiser variant whose model name changed in 1994 to the 40 LRC with expanded fuel capacity over the earlier Caliber 40, and used examples turn up in both owner and ex-charter histories.
Layouts on the Used Market
Owner three-cabin arrangements are the more common layout afloat, though two-cabin versions are also available, and ex-charter boats are a common sight. Below, the standard plan places a full head and shower forward with a Pullman-berth master stateroom, an amidships main cabin with L-shaped dinette and settee, an aft-port galley and nav station, and a starboard second head with a small quarter-berth cabin. The T-shaped cockpit seats four or five, and the sugar-scoop transom with fold-down ladder serves dinghy and emergency boarding alike.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
Biminis and dodgers are commonly fitted, and a long list of systems often appears: air conditioning, inverter, solar, hot water, radar, watermaker, dinghy davits, cockpit shower, chartplotter, spinnaker, furling main, and autopilot. For a buyer, the power-and-energy cluster — inverter, solar, sometimes a watermaker — determines how independently the boat lives at anchor, while furling main and autopilot speak to short-handed passage ease. Less common but seen as owner upgrades are lithium batteries, asymmetric spinnaker, electric winches, AIS, life raft, a short-handed rig setup, heating, wind generator, swim platform, and teak decks; these are not baseline expectations.
What to Inspect
The deck is sealed to the hull flange with polyurethane and bolted through a perforated aluminum toe rail every six inches with square-seated carriage bolts designed not to spin and break the seal anchor, so check that rail for corrosion or seal compromise. The hull is reinforced at the bow and along the keel leading edge, and a watertight crash bulkhead sits forward — verify its integrity and any prior collision repair. Integral fuel, water, and waste tanks below the sole should be sounded for leaks or odor, since they are molded into the hull rather than standalone. Later boats with in-mast furling sacrifice sailing performance for convenience; confirm the rig type matches your intent.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
These boats typically appear in the United States and the Bahamas. For a used-market checklist: confirm layout (owner three-cabin most common), verify deck-to-hull seal and toe rail condition, test integral tanks for soundness, inspect forward crash bulkhead, and note whether in-mast furling is fitted. A Caliber 40 LRC well kept is a structurally coherent cruiser with serious tankage for distance.
Price & volume trends
Monthly asking-price and listing-volume trends for the Caliber 40 LRC. The line shows the median ask each month; the bars show how many listings appeared.
Monthly breakdown · 11 rows
| Month | Listings | Median ask | Δ vs. last mo. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25 | 1 | $149,900 | — |
| Jul 25 | 5 | $164,950 | +10.0% |
| Sep 25 | 7 | $165,000 | +0.0% |
| Oct 25 | 2 | $154,900 | -6.1% |
| Dec 25 | 2 | $105,000 | -32.2% |
| Jan 26 | 4 | $159,900 | +52.3% |
| Feb 26 | 1 | $159,900 | 0.0% |
| Apr 26 | 11 | $159,900 | 0.0% |
| May 26 | 3 | $165,000 | +3.2% |
| Jul 26 | 4 | $138,000 | -16.4% |
| Aug 26 | 5 | $95,000 | -31.2% |
Where they're listed
Caliber 40 LRC listings appear across 1 country. United States has the most listings with 37.
Country view
37 listings · 1 country| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | $159,900 | 37 | 7 | 100.0% |
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