The Maple Leaf 48 is a Canadian sailboat that was designed by Stan Huntingford as a motorsailer and first built in 1972.
[1][2][3][4] The design was built by Cooper Enterprises in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, starting in 1972, but the company went out of business in 1990 and it is now out of production.
[1][2][5][6] 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 wheel and a fixed fin keel.
[2] 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.