Drabant 30 Buyer's Guide
Shopping the used Drabant 30 means engaging with one of the rarer late-seventies Danish cruisers, a masthead sloop designed by Gert Gerlach and built by A/S Nilling's Bådeværft in numbers below 100. Because the model was also offered as a home-completion kit, the brokerage stock is not uniform: some boats left the yard finished, others were completed by their owners, and that single fact should frame every viewing.
Layouts on the Used Market
The Drabant 30 is a 29.4-foot monohull with a mahogany interior and a sandwich fibreglass hull and deck. Its length-to-beam ratio of 3.01 places it among the more spacious 58% of similar designs, and the fin keel draws about 1.65 to 1.75 metres dependent on load. No alternative factory layouts are documented, so differences between boats tend to trace back to how thoroughly an owner-completed example was finished rather than to a choice of deck plans.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
Autopilots, lithium batteries, teak decks, and chartplotters are commonly fitted to used Drabant 30 boats offered for sale. The original specification carries a saildrive transmission and a masthead rig with all halyards at 27.2 metres and 8 mm, jib and genoa sheets at 8.9 metres and 10 mm, and a mainsheet of 22.2 metres at 10 mm. No owner-upgrade tier items are documented for this model in the available market picture, so any non-standard gear beyond the commonly fitted list should be read as an individual boat's history rather than a class trend.
What to Inspect
The one documented known issue is that the Drabant 30 was also sold to be home-completed, which means that the quality of each boat may vary. A careful survey should establish whether a given example was yard-built or owner-finished, and should judge the hand laid fibreglass sandwich hull and deck, iron keel, and mahogany interior on their own merits rather than assuming consistent production standards across the class.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
Drabant 30 boats are typically found on the Danish market. For a shopper, the short list is plain: confirm whether the boat was yard-completed or home-completed, inspect the sandwich fibreglass hull and deck for build consistency, verify the saildrive and documented rigging dimensions, and treat the iron keel and mahogany interior as the baseline bones. Given the sub-100 build count and the kit-built possibility, individual condition outweighs any assumption of fleet uniformity.
Price & volume trends
Monthly asking-price and listing-volume trends for the Drabant 30. The line shows the median ask each month; the bars show how many listings appeared.
Monthly breakdown · 2 rows
| Month | Listings | Median ask | Δ vs. last mo. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26 | 1 | $ 16,869 | — |
| May 26 | 3 | $ 18,219 | +8.0% |
Where they're listed
Drabant 30 listings appear across 1 country. Denmark has the most listings with 4.
Country view
4 listings · 1 country| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denmark | $ 17,544 | 4 | 3 | 100.0% |
Comparable models
Similar length, displacement, and era. Open a row to compare that model's market page.
Similar boats to compare
3 similar designs| Model | LOA | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albin Ballad 30 | 29.99' | $ 10,775 | 17 | 2 |
| Great Dane Dane 28 | 28' | $ 12,123 | 6 | 5 |
| Drabant 30You are here | — | $ 17,544 | 4 | 3 |