Condor sailboats for sale

Buying a used Condor: confirm which builder before anything else

A boat listed as a "Condor" could be an Annapolis-built offshore-racing trimaran, a small German cabin cruiser, or a 37-foot hull the catalog carries with no traceable builder — three boats that share nothing but a name. The usual shortcuts for judging a used sailboat by its badge, a build reputation, an assumed parts network, a single design lineage, don't carry across that gap, so confirming the model designation on a listing matters more than trusting the name on the transom.

Which era to target

The Annapolis trimarans came from a single, short window: Condor Limited launched its first hull in 1985 and closed the company by late June 1990 amid a slump in the boating industry, building only twenty-one 40s and four 30s in that time. Every hull from that run shares the same layup — E-glass and biaxial glass with vinylester resin throughout, a material choice the marque's own owners' association ties to resistance against blistering, though that's the assessment of an interested party rather than an independent surveyor — so there's no earlier or later construction generation to weigh against a later one within this line; scarcity, not build year, is the real variable. The German cabin boats run on a different timeline entirely, starting with the Condor 7 and its steel centreboard/fin keel in 1962. The 55, 70, and 80 that followed it saw far larger runs, collectively approaching 1,500 hulls, with the 55 accounting for the largest share at roughly 800 — a production scale the trimaran line never approached.

Navigating the lineup

Because the trimarans and the cabin boats share no yard, no designer, and no keel type, treat a search for either as its own category rather than variations on one brand. The Condor 37 in the catalog belongs to neither lineage; no authority source has been able to confirm a builder or history for it, so approach any listing under that model number with that gap in mind. The full model directory on this page separates all of these branches out individually.