Design
Reliant
Designed by Glen-L Marine
A 49 ft world-cruising ketch from Glen-L Marine with clipper bow, bowsprit, taffrails and turned stanchions, berths for four or five couples with heads placed for privacy, wide bulwarked decks and room for a 10 ft dinghy. Cold-molded round-bilge hull with a choice of long keel or fin and skeg, 40 to 70 hp engine on a vee drive. Glen-L publish a beam of 14 ft 4 in and a draft of 6 ft 6 in.
Sail area is Main - 442 sq ft. Displacement is 34,500 lb. Headroom below is 6'-4" to 6'-7". The hull is a round bilge with fixed ballast keel. Optional separate keel and rudder/skeg configuration, or single long keel. A professional-scale project. Expect 8,000 hours or more, and plan the shed accordingly. Real hours from logged builds show below.
What building a Reliant actually takes
Medians from the build logs kept on this site, not the designer’s estimate. Nobody has logged this boat here yet, so they are empty until the first builder does.
Those medians firm up as more people log this boat.
Builds of this boat
Nobody has logged a Reliant here yet.
If you are building one, yours becomes the reference: the page the next person building this boat finds when they search for it. One photo and one line is a valid first entry.
Start the first log of this boatBoats like this one
Same type, closest in length.
| Design | Plans from | LOA | Logs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 48 ft 10 in Ketch Apache West | Benford Design Group | 48′ 10″ (14.88 m) | 0 |
| 50 ft C. B. Ketch Chanty or Motorsailer | Benford Design Group | 50′ 0″ (15.24 m) | 0 |
| 50 ft Double Ended Ketch or Brigantine/Trader | Benford Design Group | 50′ 0″ (15.24 m) | 0 |
| Sabbatical | Dudley Dix Yacht Design | 50′ 0″ (15.24 m) | 0 |
| Hout Bay 50 | Dudley Dix Yacht Design | 50′ 2″ (15.3 m) | 0 |
| Little Creek 47 | Dudley Dix Yacht Design | 47′ 3″ (14.4 m) | 0 |