Prima sailboats for sale

Buying a used Prima: a closed run from a yard that no longer exists in the UK

A used Prima 38 is a boat from a finished story. Seaquest Ltd, the Poole, Dorset yard that built it, delivered its last hull to Dutch owners in December 2004 and moved its operations to Dubai the following year, so there is no factory to call with a hull-number question and no newer model year to chase. What that closed history does offer a buyer is an active one-design class - the association Seaquest set out to build around the boat - which means condition and class-fleet standing matter more here than sorting between production years.

Which era to target

There isn't a mid-life redesign to weigh one Prima 38 against another. The design pairing of Stephen Jones and Jonathan Sherwill carried the boat from its RYA "Yacht of the Year" recognition in 1998 through to the final hull that left the factory in December 2004, and nothing in the builder's own record points to a documented split between early and late examples. That makes the practical era question less about which years to target and more about how a given hull was used and maintained across that single run - fleet-raced under the one-design class, cruised privately, or some mix of both.

Navigating the lineup

The lineup itself is narrow: the Prima 38 and the Prima 38 OD, built to the specification of the one-design class Seaquest established around the boat. A buyer set on fleet racing should confirm whether a given hull was built and equipped to that one-design standard, since the class association - which the builder's own history pages still described as active years after UK production ended - is the boat's main source of ongoing parts and technical support now that Seaquest itself has moved on. The full model directory on this page lays out the boats on offer.