The Maple Leaf 48 is a Canadian sailboat that was designed by

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as a motorsailer and first built in 1972.

Production

The design was built by

Cooper Enterprises Cooper Enterprises Inc. (sometimes referred to as Cooper Yachts Limited) was a Canadian boat builder based in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of fibreglass sailboats and powerboats. The c ...

in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, starting in 1972, but the company went out of business in 1990 and it is now out of production.

Design

The Maple Leaf 48 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass, with wood trim. It has a cutter rig, a raked stem, a reverse transom, a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a

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and a fixed fin keel. It displaces and carries of lead ballast. The boat has a draft of with the standard keel and with the optional shoal draft keel. The boat is fitted with an

inboard An inboard motor is a marine propulsion system for boats. As opposed to an outboard motor where an engine is mounted outside the hull of the craft, an ''inboard motor'' is an engine enclosed within the hull of the boat, usually connected to a ...

diesel engine of for docking and manoeuvring. The fuel tank and the fresh water tank both have capacities of . The design has sleeping accommodation for nine people, with a single and a double berth in the bow cabin, a settee berth in the forward main salon, two berths in the aft main salon and an aft cabin with a double berth on the port side and a single on the starboard side. The

galley A galley is a type of ship that is propelled mainly by oars. The galley is characterized by its long, slender hull, shallow draft, and low freeboard (clearance between sea and gunwale). Virtually all types of galleys had sails that could be used ...

is located on the port side just forward of the

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ladder. The galley is U-shaped and is equipped with a stove and a double sink. A navigation station is opposite the galley, on the starboard side. There are two

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, one just aft of the bow cabin on the starboard side and one on the port side in the aft cabin. For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical

spinnaker A spinnaker is a sail designed specifically for sailing off the wind on courses between a reach (wind at 90° to the course) to downwind (course in the same direction as the wind). Spinnakers are constructed of lightweight fabric, usually n ...

. The design has a hull speed of .

Operational history

In 1984 review in ''Yachting'' magazine, Chris Caswell wrote, "the Maple Leaf series (48, 50, 54, 56 and 68) is distinctive for powerful hulls, graceful deckhouses, and center cockpits.

References

{{Cooper Enterprises Keelboats 1970s sailboat type designs Sailing yachts Motorsailers Sailboat type designs by Stan Huntingford Sailboat types built by Cooper Enterprises

Production

Design

Operational history

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