Caliber 47 Lrc Sailboats for Sale

Layouts on the Used Market

Every example shares the same essential interior: a varnished teak saloon with teak-and-holly sole, a port dinette whose table folds to the bulkhead, twin easy chairs opposite, a straight-line galley aft of the dinette, and a starboard nav station at the companionway. The aft stateroom carries a queen berth, cedar-lined locker, and bureau with head access, while a forward cabin offers a double bunk and hanging locker. A walk-in closet to starboard is a defining perk. The bonded tank system and collision bulkheads are common to all, so layout differences among used Caliber 47 LRCs are mostly in optional power and sail-handling gear rather than footprint.

Equipment and Common Upgrades

Most boats on the market carry air conditioning, radar, autopilot, chartplotter, solar, freezer, AIS, bimini, dodger, electric winches, washing machine, and dinghy davits as commonly fitted gear. A watermaker, heating, bow thruster, lithium batteries, swim platform, and short-handed setup are often seen. For buyer consequence, focus on the energy cluster—factory options included a 5.5KW Northern Lights generator enclosed in a sound shield with slide-out mounts, plus a hi-output large-frame alternator—and the sail-handling cluster, where the convertible cutter rig, Selden roller furling mast, and Lewmar winch upgrades to #58 or #54 electric separate serious offshore rigs from basic ones. Navigation and comfort items such as a Lofrans Progress 1500 windlass and insulated SSB antenna appear as well.

What to Inspect

The structural story is the strongest reason to buy, but verify it. Caliber's tankage system bonds each tank with a viewing port to the hull below the waterline, and the double bottom plus trademark collision bulkheads and watertight rudder dam should be confirmed intact anchor. The sea chest that allows a single hull penetration in place of many through-hulls is a flooding-containment feature worth tracing for corrosion or past leakage. On the SE series, the Caliber Smart Fuel System's two independent Racor 500 filters, vacuum gauge, and electric polishing pump should be exercised to confirm the rapid filter-change-while-underway claim still functions anchor.

Availability and Buyer's Takeaway

These boats typically appear in the United States, Virgin Islands, U.S., Antigua and Barbuda, Virgin Islands, British, and Australia. For a shopper, the checklist is short: confirm the bonded double-bottom tanks and collision bulkheads are sound, test the smart fuel routing and Racor redundancy underway, verify the genset and bow thruster where fitted, and prefer examples with the convertible cutter and electric primary winches for easier short-handed passage-making.