Sweden Yachts 45
Sweden Yachts · Peter Norlin · 1999
Updated
The Sweden Yachts 45 is a 14.16 m heavy displacement racing yacht designed by Peter Norlin and built by Sweden Yachts, first launched in 1999. It races in Class B.
Length
14.16 m
46′ 5″
Beam
4.25 m
Draft
2.30 m
Displacement
12.8 t
Sail area
116 m²
On the podium
Where a Sweden Yachts 45 finishes when she goes racing.
On the podium
0%
of 12 starts by 1 boat
Wins
0%
Read from 12 starts by 1 boat between 2021 and 2025, counting races with six boats or more.
Recent regattas
The latest events where a Sweden Yachts 45 was on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
"Πορος 2025"2025- "Ν. Σαρικαβαζη 2025"2025
- "Πορος 2024"2024
- "Πορος 2023"2023
- "Poros 2022"2022
Raced one we are missing?
Report a regattaRound the buoys, or offshore
A short windward-leeward and a night at sea ask different things of a boat. Here is how this one does in each.
Round the buoys
—
Not enough data yet: 1 race of 10 NM or less carry a published distance.
Offshore & coastal
0%
of these races end on the podium
Who she races against
The designs a Sweden Yachts 45 actually lines up with, most often first. The bar shows how those meetings ended.
Also met, too few times for a figure:
J/99 (6 meetings), First 35 (Farr) (6 meetings), Grand Soleil 37 (Design) (5 meetings), First 36.7 (5 meetings), Moody 39 (5 meetings), Dehler 35 (Voogd) (5 meetings), Elan 40 (4 meetings), Discovery 300 (5 meetings), First 35 (Berret) (5 meetings), Dromor 26 (5 meetings), Dufour 38 (4 meetings), First 45 (Farr) (3 meetings), Oceanis 38.1 (3 meetings), Oceanis 423 (3 meetings), Moody 34 (3 meetings), X-40 (3 meetings), Dehler 30 OD (3 meetings), Sun Fast 3200 (3 meetings), J/24 (3 meetings), J/105 (3 meetings), X-35 (3 meetings), J/11 (3 meetings), Mount Gay 30 (3 meetings), J/44 (3 meetings), First 47.7 (3 meetings), Dehler 38 (Stadt) (2 meetings), Gin Fizz (4 meetings), Feeling 109 (2 meetings), Oceanis 393 (2 meetings), Elan 45 (2 meetings), Sun Odyssey 40 (2 meetings), Sun Odyssey 33 (Andrieu) (2 meetings), Grand Soleil 39 (Jézéquel) (1 meeting), Ecume De Mer (1 meeting), Dufour 390 (1 meeting)
Some of the boats it races against
How the Sweden Yachts 45 has fared against each of them, boat against boat on corrected time. Ordered by how often the two meet, not by who wins.
Speed at every angle
The shape of this design's speed, drawn from the measured fleet. Pick a wind and watch it stretch.
Upwind VMG
5.75
39°
Beam reach
9.13
90°
Broad reach
9.71
135°
Downwind VMG
8.22
170°
Speed in knots at 20 knots of true wind. Green marks the angles that pay: the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Where it wins and where it pays
Every boat is judged against its own measurements — length, weight, sail area. The quicker those say it should be, the more it has to deliver just to break even. Going fast is not enough: it has to go faster than its own numbers promised.
It does its best work before the breeze fills in. Early-season racing and morning breezes play to its strengths; once it pipes up the fleet comes back to it.
Where it gains
Its best ground is on the beam in light air, where it goes better than its measurements say it should, and by a margin worth having.
Where it pays
It falls short cracked off in a strong breeze, giving away time it never gets back. That is weight that has to be driven rather than released.
Above the line it delivers more than promised and gains on the fleet. Below, it falls short. Move the wind: plenty of boats sit on one side in the light and the other when it blows.
Full width is 0.6 kn either way.
At 10 knots this design makes back more than its rating asks on the beam reach.
How fast is a Sweden Yachts 45
Boat speed in knots, by true wind angle and wind strength.
| Angle | 6 kn | 10 kn | 14 kn | 20 kn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beat VMG | 3.72 | 5.02 | 5.53 | 5.75 |
| 52° | 5.79 | 7.39 | 7.94 | 8.16 |
| 60° | 6.19 | 7.74 | 8.16 | 8.40 |
| 75° | 6.55 | 8.04 | 8.43 | 8.78 |
| 90° | 6.52 | 8.08 | 8.69 | 9.13 |
| 110° | 6.21 | 8.12 | 8.89 | 9.54 |
| 120° | 6.05 | 8.03 | 8.84 | 9.85 |
| 135° | 5.42 | 7.60 | 8.59 | 9.71 |
| 150° | 4.54 | 6.74 | 8.09 | 9.12 |
| Run VMG | 3.93 | 5.84 | 7.07 | 8.22 |
How they are set up
The range each sail spans across the fleet.
Nearly all carry a folding propeller. A bowsprit is standard across the fleet. Crew weight is declared around 400 kg.
Rigging
Sweden Yachts 45 rig and sail dimensions
A Sweden Yachts 45 carries 18.75 m of mainsail hoist on a 6.00 m boom, a forestay 18.63 m above the deck and a 5.30 m bowsprit. Typical figures across the 3 boats measured under the current VPP, with the range each one spans.
Rig
Sails
The spinnaker spreads widest of all — 142 to 159 m² depending on bowsprit and set-up. Before ordering a sail, read the figure on your own measurement record rather than the typical one for the design.