Maple Leaf Sailboats

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Model ↕	Listings ↓	Year Built ↕	LOA (ft) ↕	Beam (ft) ↕	Draft (ft) ↕	Disp. (lbs) ↕	Hull ↕	Designer ↕	Rig ↕	Keel ↕

Maple Leaf 45	2 for sale	1985	45 ft	14 ft	6.25 ft	27,700 lbs	Monohull	Stan Huntingford	Masthead Sloop	Fin
Maple Leaf 42	1 for sale	1976	42 ft	13.08 ft	6 ft	24,000 lbs	Monohull	Stan Huntingford	Masthead Sloop	Fin
Maple Leaf 48	1 for sale	1972	47.67 ft	14.67 ft	6.5 ft	34,000 lbs	Monohull	Stan Huntingford	Cutter	Fin
Maple Leaf 54	1 for sale	1978	54.25 ft	14.92 ft	7 ft	42,000 lbs	Monohull	Stan Huntingford	Cutter	Fin
Maple Leaf OD	—	1946	35.16 ft	7.83 ft	5.5 ft	10,000 lbs	Monohull	Sparkman & Stephens	Fractional Sloop	Fin

Maple Leaf sailboats: a Vancouver-built pilothouse line, with the 42 built apart from the rest

Maple Leaf is the name behind a line of pilothouse cruising sailboats - the 42, 45, 48, and 54 - designed in British Columbia by naval architect Stan Huntingford. Production spanned 1972 to 1985, from the first Maple Leaf 48 to the last-built 45. Cooper Enterprises built a significant majority of Huntingford's designs, but the Maple Leaf 42 was the exception: its build rights belonged exclusively to a separate yard, Svend's Yachts.

Origins and ownership

Stan Huntingford worked as a naval architect from West Vancouver, British Columbia, over a career that produced more than 200 sailboat designs, of which the Maple Leaf models are a small subset. He maintained an extensive business relationship with Cooper Enterprises Ltd., based in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, which built a significant majority of his designs; Cooper Enterprises, also known as Cooper Yachts, is no longer in business, and its own history as a builder is covered on its own page. The Maple Leaf 42 sat outside that arrangement: exclusive rights to build it belonged instead to Svend's Yachts Ltd. of North Vancouver, whose build facilities were also located in Port Coquitlam. Svend's Yachts has likewise closed.

Construction through the eras

The Maple Leaf 45 and 54 were both built predominantly of fibreglass with wood trim; the 45's hull specifically also carries a foam core, under a balsa-cored deck.

Lines and generations

The Maple Leaf name has also covered a second, unrelated boat. A 2002 Good Old Boat classified described a Maple Leaf-class sloop, an early Sparkman & Stephens design with a 35-foot LOA, built in the mid-1940s for the Toronto Yacht Club - a one-design racing boat from eastern Canada with no connection to the Huntingford-designed cruisers built on the west coast.

Who Maple Leaf is for

Buyers drawn to a Pacific Northwest pilothouse cruiser, built by one of two now-closed regional yards, will find Maple Leaf's British Columbia line the relevant story; anyone who encounters the Maple Leaf name attached to a 1940s Toronto one-design sloop is looking at an entirely different boat.

Maple Leaf Sailboats between 30 – 40 ft

Fractional Sloop1946

Maple Leaf OD

LOA: 35.16'
Beam: 7.83'
Draft: 5.5'
Disp.: 10k lb

Maple Leaf Sailboats between 40 – 50 ft

Masthead Sloop1976

Maple Leaf 42

LOA: 42'
Beam: 13.08'
Draft: 6'
Disp.: 24k lb

LOA: 45'
Beam: 14'
Draft: 6.25'
Disp.: 28k lb

LOA: 47.67'
Beam: 14.67'
Draft: 6.5'
Disp.: 34k lb

Median ask$ 89k

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Maple Leaf Sailboats between 50 – 60 ft

Cutter1978

Maple Leaf 54

LOA: 54.25'
Beam: 14.92'
Draft: 7'
Disp.: 42k lb

Median ask$ 89k

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Frequently asked questions

01Who designed the Maple Leaf sailboat line?+

Naval architect Stan Huntingford, based in West Vancouver, British Columbia, designed the Maple Leaf 42, 45, 48, and 54 as part of a career that produced more than 200 sailboat designs in total.

02Who built Maple Leaf sailboats?+

Cooper Enterprises Ltd. of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, built a significant majority of Stan Huntingford's designs, but the Maple Leaf 42 was built exclusively by a separate yard, Svend's Yachts Ltd.

03Are the original Maple Leaf builders still in business?+

No. Cooper Enterprises, also known as Cooper Yachts, and Svend's Yachts Ltd., the exclusive builder of the Maple Leaf 42, have both closed.

04What are the Maple Leaf 45 and 54 built from?+

Both are built predominantly of fibreglass with wood trim; the 45's hull also carries a foam core, under a balsa-cored deck.

05Is every sailboat named Maple Leaf related?+

No. A Maple Leaf-class sloop - an early Sparkman & Stephens one-design built in the mid-1940s for the Toronto Yacht Club - shares the name but has no connection to the Huntingford-designed pilothouse cruisers built in British Columbia.