Caliber 40 LRC Buyer's Guide
The Caliber 40 LRC is a long-range cruiser that began life as the Caliber 40 in 1993, took the LRC name in 1994, and was designed by Caliber co-founder Michael McCreary. On the brokerage market she is encountered mostly in the United States and the Bahamas, where her 212-gallon integral fuel capacity suits island and coastal passage work. A used buyer should understand both the standard layouts and the documented construction points before committing.
Layouts on the Used Market
Below deck the boat carries a full head and shower forward, then a master stateroom with a Pullman-styled berth to port and a hanging locker next to a bureau to starboard. Amidships, the main cabin has an L-shaped dinette to port and a settee to starboard, while the galley and navigation station are aft to port. To starboard sit a second small head and a smallish quarter berth cabin suitable for two small adults. Above, the T-shaped cockpit seats four to five adults comfortably and pairs a 40-inch wheel with a sugar-scoop transom and fold-down ladder.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
A bimini is commonly fitted, and dodgers, inverters, watermakers, air conditioning, furling mains, hot water, and radar are often seen on brokerage examples. Less common but frequent as owner upgrades are cockpit showers, AIS, chartplotters, solar, spinnakers, dinghy davits, and autopilots. The 50-horsepower Yanmar diesel sits below the cockpit and companionway, and a large-opening port seat locker gives access to batteries, machinery, and steering gear regardless of added equipment.
What to Inspect
The hull is a hand-laid composite of alternate layers of 24-ounce woven roving and chopped strand fiberglass cloth and resin, and every bulkhead as well as seats, berths, shelves, and cabinets are individually hand-laminated to the hull with multiple layers of fiberglass and resin. Because fuel, potable water, and waste tanks are integral with the hull and below the cabin sole, any leak or crazing at those sumps is also a hull breach and deserves close survey. The deck and hull are joined by a polyurethane adhesive and bolted aluminum toe rail every six inches; verify the square-hole carriage bolts have not spun and broken the caulking seal. Confirm the watertight crash bulkhead forward is sound and that the bow and keel leading edge reinforcement show no impact damage.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
Typical markets are the United States and the Bahamas. A short checklist for the shopper: confirm the integral tank sumps are intact, inspect the Quad-Seal deck joint for seal continuity, verify the crash bulkhead and bow reinforcement, and decide whether a later in-mast furling rig’s convenience outweighs its sailing-performance sacrifice. The Caliber 40 LRC rewards a careful survey with a structurally unified, access-friendly long-range cruiser.
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 · 9 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 | $ 157,400 | -4.6% |
| Dec 25 | 2 | $ 105,000 | -33.3% |
| Jan 26 | 5 | $ 159,900 | +52.3% |
| Feb 26 | 1 | $ 159,900 | 0.0% |
| Apr 26 | 13 | $ 169,900 | +6.3% |
| May 26 | 3 | $ 165,000 | -2.9% |
Where they're listed
Caliber 40 LRC listings appear across 2 countries. United States has the most listings with 34 (97.1%), followed by Bahamas.
Country view
35 listings · 2 countries| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | $ 162,425 | 34 | 11 | 97.1% |
| Bahamas | $ 109,000 | 1 | 0 | 2.9% |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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