48 Super Sport

A bestseller for Ocean during the late 1980s, the 48 Super Sport was built on a stretched 46 Super Sport hull with new deck and superstructure styling and a slightly enlarged cockpit. She’s a good-looking boat even today with her Jersey-style profile and aggressive appearance, but even more notable is the fact that she could turn an honest 30 knots with standard 485hp 6-71 diesels—impressive performance indeed considering that 6-71s are relatively small engines for a boat this size. Built on a lightweight hull with a narrow beam and a very modest 2 degrees of transom deadrise, she’s quick to accelerate but a sjpgf ride in a chop thanks to her flat-bottom design. The 48 was offered with a very popular three-stateroom, mid-galley interior (unusual in just a 48-footer) in addition to a conventional two-stateroom, galley-down floorplan with a more open salon. The interior woodwork and trim are varnished teak, and the array of standard equipment included cockpit controls, tackle center with freezer, teak cockpit sole, and teak covering boards. Replaced in 1991 with an all-new 48 Super Sport, a total of 167 of these distinctive yachts were built during her 5-year production run.