Banner 37 Sailboats for Sale & Market Overview

The Banner 37 is a quintessential example of the Pacific Northwest’s golden era of yacht construction, representing a high-performance collaboration between legendary designer Gary Mull and the prolific Canadian builder Forbes Cooper. Launched in the late 1970s and produced through the early 1980s under the Cooper Enterprises banner, the vessel was conceived as a "racer-cruiser" that could satisfy the burgeoning demand for a boat capable of winning prestigious regional trophies like the Swiftsure International Yacht Race while providing enough volume for family coastal cruising. Unlike the licensed Catalina models that Cooper built for the mass market, the Banner series—which included the smaller Banner 28 and the larger Banner 41—was Cooper’s foray into the bespoke performance market. These boats were characterized by their hand-laid fiberglass hulls and the high-quality teak joinery that would later become a hallmark of the Cooper Prowler powerboat line.