Stevens 47 Buyer's Guide
Shopping the brokerage market for a Stevens 47 means looking at a Sparkman & Stephens centre-cockpit cutter built at Queen Long in Taiwan, with 56 original Stevens-named boats sold through 1986 before the design carried on as the Hylas 47. The used fleet is a practical bluewater cruiser with a three-stateroom interior, a tall cutter rig, and enough tankage and stowage for extended living aboard.
Layouts on the Used Market
Owner three-cabin arrangements are the more common on the used market, but both are available, and ex-charter examples are common. The standard plan puts a centreline queen aft in the master stateroom with an ensuite head, a starboard head with shower and a port bunk-room forward of the saloon, and a forward V-berth stateroom; some boats instead carry split berths aft rather than the centreline queen. The saloon holds an L-shaped table for six and two pilot berths above the settees that many owners have closed off into storage. A port walkway galley and starboard nav station complete a layout that suits two couples or a family with private cabins at each end.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
Well-found used Stevens 47s commonly carry a watermaker, solar, dinghy davits, lithium batteries, a bimini, autopilot, and chartplotter as baseline cruising kit. Often-seen additions include an inverter, electric winches, and radar. Less common owner upgrades run to air conditioning, a spinnaker, freezer, washing machine, swim platform, AIS, Starlink, EPIRB, life raft, and short-handed sail-handling setups. For a buyer, the power-and-energy cluster—lithium, solar, inverter—matters most for off-grid stays; electric winches and a solid autopilot reduce short-handed docking and passage workload, while a watermaker and davits signal a boat already set up for remote anchoring.
What to Inspect
The deck is balsa-cored, so tap-test for soft spots and trace any portlight or hatch leaks that could wet the core. One owner boat, Aquila, showed no below-waterline blistering after years of neglect and a deck that refinished well anchor, but that is a single data point rather than a fleet guarantee. Check the skeg-hung rudder's three bearings and confirm the lowest bearing sits clear of the skeg heel, a detail meant to avoid jamming in a hard grounding. Confirm the engine beneath the cockpit counter is still accessible on three sides and that the water tanks under the settees are sound.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
Typical markets are the United States, Colombia, and Grenada. For a buyer, the checklist is short: verify deck-core dryness, rudder-bearing play, and engine access; confirm which aft-berth layout you are getting; and judge the solar, battery, and watermaker suite against how you plan to cruise. A three-cabin Stevens 47 with sound core and a complete power system is a turnkey offshore home rather than a project.
Price & volume trends
Monthly asking-price and listing-volume trends for the Stevens 47. The line shows the median ask each month; the bars show how many listings appeared.
Monthly breakdown · 4 rows
| Month | Listings | Median ask | Δ vs. last mo. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 25 | 1 | $185,000 | — |
| May 26 | 1 | $130,000 | -29.7% |
| Jun 26 | 1 | $135,000 | +3.8% |
| Aug 26 | 1 | $190,000 | +40.7% |
Where they're listed
Stevens 47 listings appear across 3 countries. Colombia has the most listings with 2 (50.0%), followed by Grenada and United States.
Country view
4 listings · 3 countries| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colombia | $160,000 | 2 | 1 | 50.0% |
| Grenada | $135,000 | 1 | 1 | 25.0% |
| United States | $185,000 | 1 | 0 | 25.0% |
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