Koopmans 1150 Sailboats for Sale

Born from the drafting board of the legendary Dutch naval architect Dick Koopmans Sr., the Koopmans 1150 (often referred to interchangeably as the Vanguard 11.50) represents a classic school of European, metalhulled passage makers. Primarily constructed in steel by specialized Dutch yards such as Scheepswerf B. Escher and Klein in Hoogezand, this design was conceived during an era when safety, physical durability, and directional stability trumped interior volume and lightwind acceleration. Unlike the highvolume, massproduced fiberglass cruisers emerging from France and Germany in the late 1970s and 1980s, the Koopmans 1150 is a semicustom, heavily built cruiser. It is built specifically to handle the unforgiving, shortperiod chop of the North Sea and to cross oceans under shorthanded crews with a quiet, reassuring predictability.