Endurance 38 Buyer's Guide
Shopping the brokerage market for an Endurance 38 means looking at a Peter A. Ibold design from the early eighties, molded by Colvic Craft PLC in Essex and offered then as either sail-away or home-completion kits. The used fleet is small and individual, and the Netherlands is the typical market where these yachts turn up.
Layouts on the Used Market
The 38 carries three cabins with five or six berths and a mahogany interior. The forward V-berths are tight and reached only by walking through a full-beam head, while an amidships pullman double sits next to the galley. Some boats left the kit path and were finished by owners, so the quality of joinery, systems routing, and structural completion can differ hull to hull even when the exterior styling — semi-flush deck, clipper bow, growing bulwark — looks identical.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
The most consequential factory option was an inboard Volvo Penta MD22 diesel rated at 57 horsepower, and a buyer should confirm which engine a specific boat carries and its service history. The used fleet shows no equipment carried as standard beyond this; any generator, watermaker, windvane, or canvas work should be treated as a possible owner addition rather than standard — and evaluated on its own merits during survey.
What to Inspect
Because these boats were also sold to be home-completed, the single most important inspection point is build consistency: a kit-finished hull may vary in structural and systems quality from a factory sail-away. Confirm the actual rig at the mast — drawings show a babystay with in-line lowers, but photos of finished boats show fore-and-aft lowers and no babystay, so verify what is aloft. Check the cockpit seating length, as one reviewer found no seat long enough to stretch out comfortably, and inspect the full-beam head arrangement for any signs of leakage near the forward berths it serves.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
The Endurance 38 appears in the Netherlands as the principal used market. For a shopper, the short checklist is: verify whether the hull was factory- or owner-completed; confirm the rig configuration at the mast; inspect the through-head access to the forward berths for water ingress; and confirm the diesel installation and tankage. A careful survey of an individual boat matters more than any model-wide assumption on this design.
Price & volume trends
Monthly asking-price and listing-volume trends for the Endurance 38. The line shows the median ask each month; the bars show how many listings appeared.
Monthly breakdown · 4 rows
| Month | Listings | Median ask | Δ vs. last mo. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25 | 1 | $87,334 | — |
| Feb 26 | 1 | $87,334 | 0.0% |
| Apr 26 | 1 | $87,334 | 0.0% |
| May 26 | 1 | $87,334 | 0.0% |
Where they're listed
Endurance 38 listings appear across 1 country. Netherlands has the most listings with 3.
Country view
3 listings · 1 country| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | $87,334 | 3 | 0 | 100.0% |
Comparable models
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Similar boats to compare
5 similar designs| Model | LOA | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hallberg-Rassy 38 | 37.96' | $ 96,737 | 30 | 7 |
| Nicholson 38 | 37.83' | $ 32,614 | 13 | 4 |
| Laurent Giles 38 | 38.83' | $ 51,119 | 11 | 4 |
| Morgan 38 | 37.67' | $ 69,000 | 5 | 1 |
| Endurance 38You are here | — | $ 87,334 | 4 | 0 |