Baycruiser 26 Buyer's Guide
Shopping the brokerage market for a Baycruiser 26 means looking at a Swallow Yachts trailerable cruiser that blends a retro lapstrake look with a carbon rig and lifting daggerboard. Built from 2014 onward, she trails behind a large car at 8 feet 4 inches beam and offers a rare combination of 1-foot shoal draught ashore and 5-foot 2-inch board-down keel for sailing. Because the model is still within production, used boats range from early GRP examples to mahogany plywood and epoxy-ply variants, all sharing the same core layout.
Layouts on the Used Market
Every Baycruiser 26 carries the raised coachroof saloon with standing headroom near six feet and large windows, two settee berths, and a forward vee berth for four in total. The enclosed head sits forward with the daggerboard case built into the bulkhead, and a sliding galley with twin sinks emerges from under the starboard cockpit seat. A desk nearly four feet wide, full-depth cockpit lockers, and a pull-up larder fill the remaining space. Boats with the 14 hp diesel inboard lose the slide-out fridge-freezer beneath the bridge deck, so check which power package a given hull carries when comparing accommodations.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
Power and energy centers on the outboard or diesel choice and enough battery to operate the ballast pump and head; some owners add a charcoal heater by the bulkhead with flue through the heads. Canvas and sail handling benefit from the standard tabernacle rig and boom cassette, while carbon laminate sails appear on some boats. Navigation is served by nav lights set into the bowsprit moulding, and the bowsprit itself carries twin rollers and a stainless anchor, though later boats were planned with a folding bowsprit. Comfort items include a fridge described as larger than on most 40-footers and a self-draining cockpit.
What to Inspect
The daggerboard is a glassfibre section with 330 pounds of lead in the tip and rides in a case integrated to the main bulkhead, so confirm the trunk shows no undue intrusion or wear. Water ballast of 750 litres lives below the floor and is drained by electric pump or about 30 minutes manual; verify the tank, pump, and through-hull paths are sound. The outboard well is open-backed and may be fitted with a fairing plug on production boats, while an inboard diesel is a factory option — inspect whichever is present for mounting and corrosion. Twin transom-hung rudders should be checked for balance and grip; testers noted they hold until the gunwale is awash, so worn bearings or delamination matter.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
When you go to look, keep a short checklist: confirm beam is 2.54 m for legal trailing, verify board-up draught of 1 foot and board-down of 5 foot 2 inches, check the water-ballast tank and pump, inspect the daggerboard trunk and twin rudders, and decide between outboard and diesel inboard for your own cruising style.
Price & volume trends
Monthly asking-price and listing-volume trends for the Baycruiser 26. The line shows the median ask each month; the bars show how many listings appeared.
Monthly breakdown · 1 row
| Month | Listings | Median ask | Δ vs. last mo. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26 | 1 | $100,332 | — |
Where they're listed
Baycruiser 26 listings appear across 1 country. United Kingdom has the most listings with 1.
Country view
1 listings · 1 country| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | $100,332 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
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3 similar designs| Model | LOA | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hake / Seaward 26 RK | 28.42' | $ 52,999 | 13 | 7 |
| Cornish Crabbers 26 | 26.21' | $ 98,418 | 12 | 3 |
| Swallow Yachts 26You are here | — | $ 100,332 | 1 | 0 |