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Saffier Yachts SC 8M Cabin — trailerable Classic-range weekender with proper accommodation.

Saffier Yachts SC 8M — Cabin

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THE BOAT

The water closer, the horizon wider

The Saffier Yachts SC 8M Cabin is the kind of boat that changes how you spend your time. You sail out in the morning with nothing more organised than a vague direction, every line within reach from the helm, the self-tacking jib doing the work quietly on its own. The cockpit is generous, the motion is light and predictable, and the whole thing feels less like managing a vessel and more like simply being on the water.

When the day runs long and the anchorage is too good to leave, the cabin is waiting: four berths, proper shelter, somewhere to cook and sleep and wake up to the sound of the halyard tapping and the water close beneath you. Lakes, rivers, open coast: the SC 8M Cabin moves easily between them all, a classic hull with the build and the systems to back up the good looks.

The SC 8M Cabin — at a glance
Length overall
8.5m
Beam
2.45m
Upwind sail area
31
Berths
4
Draft
1.3m
Displacement
1800kg
Saffier SC 8M Cabin classic profile under sail
01CLASSIC LINES

Beauty that earns its keep on the water

The SC 8M Cabin wears its classic silhouette without apology, and the lines that turn heads in the anchorage are the same ones that keep her settled as the chop builds. The Esthec teak-look deck ages the way a wooden boat never quite could: warm underfoot, easy on the eye, and none of the scrubbing. Good design in a sailboat is never purely aesthetic, and here the two are inseparable.

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02GO ANYWHERE

Lake, coast or overnight, one boat does it all

The SC 8M Cabin is at home wherever you point her. Flat inland water, a lumpy coastal passage, a spontaneous night on the hook: she handles each without compromise, seaworthy and self-righting with a self-draining cockpit for the open stuff, yet light enough to trail to a new stretch of water on a whim. Thirty-one square metres of sail pulls her along with purpose, and four berths wait below for the times you want to linger past a single tide.

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03YOUR BOAT, YOUR CALL

Every control where your hand already is

Every sheet, halyard and the engine controls sit within reach of the helm, so you never leave the cockpit to trim, tack or manoeuvre in a tight anchorage. The self-tacking jib works through stays on its own track, so a tack is a decision, not a drill. Sail her solo with room to spare, or bring whoever you like aboard and let the boat handle itself while the conversation wanders.

Full specifications

Every number,
on one page.

Length (without bowsprit)
8m
L.O.A. (with bowsprit)
8.5m
Beam
2.45m
Draft shallow keel
1.03m
Draft standard keel
1.3m
Ballast shallow keel
760kg
Ballast standard keel
720kg
Displacement
1800kg
Hull material
Polyester
Deck material
Polyester
Deck finishing
Esthec
CE-category
C
Design
R. Hennevanger
Builder
Saffier Yachts B.V.