Laguna sailboats for sale

Buying a used Laguna: know which name you're looking at

Buying a used Laguna means buying from a single Anaheim, California yard whose boats crossed a naming line partway through its history: everything sold before 1980 wears the Windrose badge, everything after wears Laguna, on the same production run. Every one of these boats -- whichever name is on the transom -- came from one designer, W. Shad Turner, so a Windrose listing is not a lesser or unrelated find next to a Laguna one. Treat the name split as bookkeeping, not a design break, and shop across both badges rather than searching "Laguna" alone.

Which era to target

A hull dated anywhere from the 1973 founding through 1986 traces to founder Bill Downing's original ownership, spanning both the Windrose years and the post-1980 Laguna years -- the most consistent stretch to shop. A change of hands followed in 1986, and the buyer after that lasted barely a year before selling again in 1987; boats from that brief window sit at the tail end of the Laguna Yachts name itself. After 1987 the business is a different story altogether: it moved to Chanute, Kansas, took the name Capital Yachts, and kept only one holdover design in production, the old Laguna 26 renamed Classic 26, before shutting down in 1995. A boat found under that Kansas-era branding is best treated as its own category rather than a later Laguna.

Navigating the lineup

Across its run the lineup spanned roughly 16 to 33 feet, concentrated mostly in the years between 1980 and 1987, from small trailerable designs up through mid-sized cruisers built in far smaller numbers. Buyers after an early, simple trailer-sailer should look to the smaller end of that range; buyers after a larger cruiser should look to the later, bigger models -- the full model directory on this page breaks out the individual listings.