Granada sailboats for sale

Buying a used Granada: a defunct yard's history stands in for a warranty

A used Granada is a boat from a Danish yard that closed in 1989, so buying one means leaning on the individual hull's condition and documentation rather than on any backing from the builder — the yard itself has been gone for decades. The range spans family cruisers from roughly 23 to 37 feet built across a decade and a half, with at least two models sold for owners to finish themselves rather than fully built at the yard, so two boats sharing a model name can still differ in how carefully they were completed. Buying well here is less about picking the "right" Granada model and more about finding a hull with a documented build and a clean maintenance history.

Which era to target

The Granada 27 stands out as the marque's deepest production run — Bådnyt's spec table puts total output at 500 to 550 hulls over an eight-year stretch from 1976 to 1984 — which gives a buyer the largest pool of comparable boats and the clearest sense of what a survey should expect to find. Provenance paperwork is worth extra scrutiny on any Granada whose ownership history touches the yard's final years: a corporate filing under the name Granada Yacht A/S dates to 1988, a year before the 1989 bankruptcy, and the record around that transition is not fully documented.

What to inspect across the range

Several models, including the 27, 24, and 31, were built with a foam-or-balsa-cored sandwich laminate in the deck and sometimes the hull; other models such as the 32 and 910 also used sandwich-built hulls and decks. Yachtdatabase.com's model reviews describe the construction as improving cabin insulation, but warn that deck-hardware penetrations are the recurring failure point — once water reaches the core, it rots and becomes expensive or impossible to repair, so a survey should check moisture at every hardware mount rather than take the deck at face value. It's also worth asking a seller directly how a boat was finished: the 24 and 31 left the yard partly unfinished as well as fully built, sold for owners to complete themselves, and fit-out quality differs between the two paths.

Navigating the lineup

Granada's range runs from roughly 23-foot pocket cruisers up to a 37-foot model, with most of the lineup clustered in the high-20s and low-30s — a size buyers should match to their own sailing plans rather than to the badge, since design credit shifts across the range from the Kjærulff-led bureau to at least two other named designers. The full model directory on this page breaks the lineup down by length and year for closer comparison.