LM sailboats for sale

Buying a used LM: a closed production run from a yard that no longer builds boats

Every LM sailboat was built by a yard that no longer exists in boatbuilding form, so buying one means buying into a closed, aging population rather than a brand you could still special-order from. That reframes the usual brand-versus-condition trade-off: with no factory support behind the name anymore, an individual boat's condition and maintenance history matter more here than which model or model year it wears.

Which era to target

LM's sailboat line ran from 1969 into the mid-1990s, when the last boats left the Lunderskov factory as the company shifted its attention to wind-turbine blades — the entire range is decades old by definition, with nothing newer behind it. Construction held fairly steady across that run: hand-laid fiberglass hulls and cored, sandwich-built decks show up in review after review across the lineup, from the 27 down through the smaller cruisers, so era-to-era construction risk is lower here than on brands that changed materials or methods significantly over their production life. The one real scarcity wrinkle involves the 27: once LM wound down yacht production, its hull molds reportedly passed to an English builder that produced only a couple more hulls, so buyers chasing that model are effectively shopping the original Danish-built run almost exclusively.

What to inspect across the range

One documented piece of advice applies to the marque generally rather than a single model: a used-boat review's guidance for anyone buying a saltwater-kept LM is to scrutinize the rigging and chainplates carefully for corrosion, which is worth treating as a standing checklist item regardless of which model is in front of you. The same review found no delamination or soft spots in the deck and pilothouse roof of a tested LM32, then 28 years old — a good sign for the cored-deck construction shared across the range, but a single well-preserved example isn't a guarantee, so a moisture-meter survey of the deck is still worthwhile no matter what one boat's history suggests.

Navigating the lineup

The range spans a genuine size spread: small daysailing-oriented models in the 16-to-24-foot class, a core of mid-20s-to-32-foot cruisers where most of the lineup and most of the documented reviews sit, and the larger, later Mermaid series above that for buyers who want more room under a pilothouse. The 27 is both the line's best-known model and its most numerous, which makes it the easiest of the range to actually track down; buyers set on anything else should expect a thinner search and lean on the full model directory on this page to compare what's actually out there.