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We recently sat through a presentation by a local sailor who took a B 47.7 in the Vic Maui race, family-cruised it to Australia, participated in the Sidney Hobart and did pretty well, and have since sailed it home, mostly with family or friends.
This boat was particularly well setup (money was no object) and no doubt that helped some (eg - watermaker and other helpful accessories). The cruising "delivery" legs were done with at least one reef in the main, and with a smallish family crew incuding preteen and teenage children. Their son, at age 10, already had 12,000 blue water miles under his belt!
So in the right hands these boats are certainly capable of handling these sorts of voyages.
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".. there is much you could do at sea with common sense.. and very little you could do without it.."
Capt G E Ericson (from "The Cruel Sea" by Nicholas Monsarrat)
1984 Fast/Nicholson 345
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