Schock sailboats for sale

Buying a used Schock: era and lineage decide what you're actually buying

A used Schock could be a 1950s trailerable daysailer, a 1990s one-design racer-daysailer, or a 2000s ultralight fitted with a canting-keel system — the W. D. Schock catalog spans that whole range under one company name, one that itself changed hands in 2011 after 65 years in the founding family. Buying used here means first placing a given hull in that lineage: which decade's design brief it was built to, and whether it predates or postdates the ownership transition, before weighing condition against the boat's typical wear for its type.

Which era to target

The earliest boats — the Lido 14 dinghy, launched in the late 1950s, and the trailerable Schock 22 that followed it — were small, simple daysailers and racers from the company's founding decades. A second, more design-driven era arrived in the 1990s, when Steve Schock, working as the company's in-house designer, drew the Schock 35, the Santana 23 Max, and the Harbor line of one-design daysailers (the 20, 25, and 30), in the same decade his design team built more than 50 racing prototypes for competitive sailing. A third thread runs through the Schock 40, introduced in 2000 as the first production boat fitted with the canting ballast twin foil system DynaYacht and Peter Isler developed — a mechanically different kind of yacht from the daysailers around it, with a canting bulb and synchronized twin foils standing in for a conventional keel. Buyers should also weigh which side of the January 2011 ownership change a boat falls on: the company's molds, name, and design lineage carried through the sale, including Tom Schock staying on as Brand Ambassador, but the sale ended the founding family's ownership of the manufacturing business itself.

Navigating the lineup

Small daysailers and dinghies, one-design racer-daysailers in the Harbor line, and performance-oriented keelboats like the Schock 35 and 40 differ enough in purpose that they rarely compete for the same buyer. Someone weighing a Harbor 20 against a Schock 35, for instance, is really choosing between a one-design daysailer built for evenly matched racing and a longer-legged racer-cruiser — a distinction worth settling before comparing specific hulls on the full model directory on this page.