Linjett sailboats for sale

Buying a used Linjett: one yard's own boat, built the same way for decades

A used Linjett is not a badge applied to a hull bought in from elsewhere — it is a boat built start to finish inside Rosättra Båtvarv, the same family-run Swedish yard across every model in the range. That has an unusual effect on used-boat risk: because design, lamination, carpentry and finishing have stayed in the same hands since the 1970s, the biggest variable across the used market is less which model a buyer is looking at than which era of the yard's own construction practice produced it.

Which era to target

One production split is worth knowing before comparing hulls: through 2004, Rosättra had its fiberglass hull and deck work done by an outside subcontractor, and only after that year did the yard take that production step in-house itself — two different supply chains behind boats on either side of that line. Design lineage draws a second boundary: Jan Gustafsson designed only the original Linjett 30, and his brother Mats designed essentially everything that followed from 1978 onward, so a buyer choosing among the bulk of the range is choosing among Mats-era boats almost by default. A buyer specifically drawn to outside design input has one option: the Linjett 39, first presented in 2020, the only model with an external co-designer, Oscar Södergren, working alongside Mats.

What to inspect across the range

Hull construction is not uniform across the lineup, and the difference matters at survey. Earlier and mid-production models used a balsa-cored sandwich laminate — documented on both the Linjett 33 and the Linjett 35 — and a review from yachtdatabase.com flagged that balsa core requires special care around any work that penetrates the sandwich, since water reaching the balsa is the failure mode to guard against. The Linjett 34, introduced in 2011, moved to a Divinycell foam core instead, per both the yard's own specifications and a Yachting Monthly review of the model — a materially different core to survey for on a newer hull than an older one. Any pre-2011 Linjett is worth a survey that treats every hull or deck penetration as a point to check for water having reached the balsa core underneath.

Navigating the lineup

The range runs from the original 30-footer up through the 43, but it isn't a single evolving size — it's a handful of distinct generations replacing each other over time, from the record-selling Linjett 32 through the doublehanded-oriented Linjett 37 to the openable-stern Linjett 34 and the flagship Linjett 43. A buyer choosing between them is really choosing a construction era and a design generation as much as a length, and the full model directory on this page breaks out each model's own production window to help narrow that choice.