Seller's Description
“Promise” is now on the hard in Marina Seca, San Carlos. She just made the passage (Dec. 2023) from Puerto Vallarta to San Carlos.
A change in retirement plans has put this beautiful yacht back on the market, and ready for her next captain and crew. This vessel is ready to cruise this season.
She has a lot of features and condition is very good, with lots of room for entertaining and comfortable living and passages. The Morgan name speaks for itself when it comes to quality construction and bluewater performance.
This vessel is located in beautiful San Carlos Sonora, Mexico, A short 250 mile drive on a safe 4 lane highway from Nogales, Az. San Carlos Nuevo Guaymas is a known boating destination/community, featuring breathtaking scenery, quiet anchorages nearby, great fishing, diving, three marinas and 4 haul out facilities.
Cortez Yacht Sales offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct their agents, or surveyor to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice. Financial and titling transactions are conducted in the US or Canada by licensed agents. An offshore purchase means great savings and the process is more hassle free than you may think!
Equipment: This boat is listed with Cortez yacht sales in San Carlos, Mexico. Details and inventory is available on the Google drive
Specs
- Designer
- Henry Scheel
- Builder
- Morgan Yachts
- Associations
- ?
- # Built
- ?
- Hull
- Monohull
- Keel
- Fin
- Rudder
- Skeg
- Construction
- FG
Dimensions
- Length Overall
- 46′ 5″ / 14.2 m
- Waterline Length
- 39′ 2″ / 12 m
- Beam
- 13′ 5″ / 4.1 m
- Draft
- 6′ 0″ / 1.8 m
- Displacement
- 30,000 lb / 13,608 kg
- Ballast
- 3,810 lb / 1,728 kg (Lead)
Rig and Sails
- Type
- Ketch
- Reported Sail Area
- 876′² / 81.4 m²
- Total Sail Area
- 757′² / 70.3 m²
Mainsail
- Sail Area
- 281′² / 26.1 m²
- P
- 43′ 2″ / 13.2 m
- E
- 12′ 11″ / 4 m
- Air Draft
- ?
Foresail
- Sail Area
- 476′² / 44.2 m²
- I
- 50′ 9″ / 15.5 m
- J
- 18′ 9″ / 5.7 m
- Forestay Length
- 54′ 1″ / 16.5 m
Mizzen
- PY
- 26′ 6″ / 8.1 m
- EY
- 8′ 11″ / 2.7 m
Auxilary Power
- Make
- Perkins
- Model
- ?
- HP
- ?
- Fuel Type
- Diesel
- Fuel Capacity
- ?
- Engine Hours
- ?
Accomodations
- Water Capacity
- ?
- Holding Tank Capacity
- ?
- Headroom
- ?
- Cabins
- 2
Calculations
- Hull Speed
-
9.7 kn
Classic: 8.39 kn
Hull Speed
The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.
Formula
Classic hull speed formula:
Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWL
A more accurate formula devised by Dave Gerr in The Propeller Handbook replaces the Speed/Length ratio constant of 1.34 with a calculation based on the Displacement/Length ratio.
Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio.311
Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL
- Sail Area/Displacement
-
14.5
<16: under powered
Sail Area / Displacement Ratio
A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.
Formula
SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64)2/3
- SA: Sail area in square feet, derived by adding the mainsail area to 100% of the foretriangle area (the lateral area above the deck between the mast and the forestay).
- D: Displacement in pounds.
- Ballast/Displacement
-
12.7
<40: less stiff, less powerful
Ballast / Displacement Ratio
A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.
Formula
Ballast / Displacement * 100
- Displacement/Length
-
221.7
200-300: moderate
Displacement / Length Ratio
A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat’s D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.
Formula
D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³
- D: Displacement of the boat in pounds.
- LWL: Waterline length in feet
- Comfort Ratio
-
34.9
30-40: moderate bluewater cruising boat
Comfort Ratio
This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat’s hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat’s motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.
Formula
Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam1.33)
- D: Displacement of the boat in pounds
- LWL: Waterline length in feet
- LOA: Length overall in feet
- Beam: Width of boat at the widest point in feet
- Capsize Screening
-
1.7
<2.0: better suited for ocean passages
Capsize Screening Formula
This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.
Formula
CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)
- Beam: Width of boat at the widest point in feet
- D: Displacement of the boat in pounds
Notes
Also sold as MORGAN CUSTOM 46.
The designer, Henry Scheel, was also the builder of the original molds for this yacht at his company in Maine in the early 1970’s. (Sheel had collaborated with Charles Morgan on a number of the earlier Morgan’s.)
The molds later came into the possession of Morgan Yachts, where they were used for a number of years with various modifications to build a number of models similar to the one shown here.
The Morgan nomenclature is especially confusing in the 45-46 foot range. Names were reused for entirely different models.
Boats very similar to this one were sold as the MORGAN 45/46 (SCHEEL) the MORGAN 461, MORGAN 462, MORGAN 463 and possibly others.
(There is at least one other MORGAN 46, (usually referred to as MORGAN 454-5, designed by Nelson/Marek and also built by Morgan Yachts.)
Available as sloop or ketch.
(See MORGAN 462 for other details.)
Thanks to Skip Gundlach for sharing his knowledge of Morgan’s of this generation.
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