Buying a used Sweden Yacht: confirm which company built it before anything else
Two different companies have used the Sweden Yachts name. The original Stenungsund yard, founded in 1976, built a tight run of Norlin/Östmann-designed performance cruisers before a 2008-09 bankruptcy ended its run. A later, unrelated holding company — the Sweden Yachts Group, tied to Malö, CR and Regina Yachts — used the same name from around 2018 before collapsing into insolvency itself, with its former head criminally convicted of fraud and tax evasion in 2025. A boat carrying the Sweden Yachts name from the original yard's decades has nothing to do with that later company's failure; a boat built during the Group era does. Establishing which company built a given hull comes before any other question about condition or value.
Which era to target
The earliest boats trace to the Comfort 34, a Kenneth Albinsson design that Sweden Yachts took over and renamed the C34 in 1978, building it until 1986 — a more conventional cruising boat than what followed. From 1986 the yard shifted into a Peter Norlin and Jens Östmann-designed line that carried the brand for the next two decades: the 41, 38, 36, 340, 50, 370, 390 and 45 all fall inside this window, in production runs as small as single digits and rarely more than a hundred hulls. A German Frers-designed flagship, the Sweden Yachts 80, sits apart from that line as a two-off built in 1998. Boats from any of these original-yard eras predate the Group entirely. A Sweden Yachts 40 from 2018 onward, by contrast, belongs to the Group era, and buyers should weight that history — the Group's own insolvency and its former head's criminal conviction — into their due diligence on that boat specifically.
Navigating the lineup
Original-yard boats run from the roughly 34-foot Comfort-derived C34 up through the two-off 80-footer, with most of the Norlin/Östmann production clustered in the high-30s-to-50-foot range. Buyers should decide first whether they're shopping the original yard's decades or a Group-era boat, then narrow by size within that era — the full model directory on this page breaks the range down hull by hull.
Where they're listed
Sweden listings appear across 11 countries. Germany has the most listings with 6 (20.7%), followed by Denmark and Sweden.
Country view
29 listings · 11 countries| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | $60,334 | 6 | 2 | 20.7% |
| Denmark | $69,710 | 6 | 3 | 20.7% |
| Sweden | $64,657 | 5 | 0 | 17.2% |
| Netherlands | $257,455 | 3 | 0 | 10.3% |
| France | $163,148 | 2 | 1 | 6.9% |
| Greece | $272,007 | 2 | 1 | 6.9% |
| Spain | $61,565 | 1 | 0 | 3.4% |
| United Kingdom | $246,915 | 1 | 0 | 3.4% |
| Italy | $128,727 | 1 | 1 | 3.4% |
| Norway | $135,390 | 1 | 0 | 3.4% |
| United States | $35,900 | 1 | 0 | 3.4% |
All Sweden models
6 models grouped by length overall. Open any model to see recent asking prices and active listings.