Nicholson 476 Sailboats for Sale

Hull Type

Monohull · fin

Rig

Cutter

LOA

46.67' · 14.23 m

Disp.

33,000 lbs · 14,969 kg

First year

1984

The Nicholson 476 represents one of the final, refined chapters of the fiberglass era for the legendary Camper & Nicholsons shipyard in Gosport. Introduced in the mid1980s, the 476 was a sophisticated development of the earlier Nicholson 48 hull—a design originally penned by Raymond Wall. To modernize the platform for a new generation of offshore sailors, the firm engaged naval architect David Pedrick to refine the lines and rig, resulting in a vessel that combined the robust, goanywhere heritage of its predecessor with more contemporary sailing characteristics. According to editorial reviews at Berthon International, only about a dozen of these semicustom yachts were ever completed at the Gosport yard before the tooling was eventually sold to Colvic Craft, who marketed a variant known as the Bluewater 476.