Simoun 485 Sailboats for Sale & Market Overview

Drawing Diagram

Builder drawing

Hull type

Monohull · centerboard

Rig

Fractional Sloop

LOA

15.91' · 4.85 m

Displ.

287 lbs · 130 kg

First year

1972

The Simoun 485 represents a sophisticated evolution in the lineage of French performance dinghies, emerging from the Gouteron shipyard in 1972 as a larger, more robust alternative to the ubiquitous Simoun 445. While its smaller sibling, the 445, gained fame as a lightair specialist and a staple of French sailing schools, the 485 was engineered to provide a more stable and powerful platform for coastal exploration and competitive club racing. Constructed primarily of fiberglass, the 485 retained Gouteron’s signature design philosophy: accessibility through innovation. It was one of the early adopters of a fully integrated, selfbailing double bottom, a feature that significantly enhanced safety by allowing the cockpit to drain almost instantly following a capsize or a heavy shipping of green water.