Luders Viking 31 Sailboats for Sale & Market Overview

Hull type

Monohull · fin

Rig

Fractional Sloop

LOA

31.36' · 9.56 m

Displ.

11,100 lbs · 5,035 kg

First year

1947

The Luders Viking 31 is a rare and historically significant auxiliary sloop that emerged from the postWorld War II recreational boating boom. Designed by the prolific Alfred "Bill" Luders and built by the Luders Marine Construction Company in Stamford, Connecticut, the Viking 31 represented a transition from traditional plankonframe construction to the more advanced coldmolded techniques pioneered during the war. Production was limited, with only 12 hulls recorded as being built between 1947 and 1949. While the yard would later achieve greater fame for its fiberglass collaborations with Cheoy Lee and Allied Yachts, the Viking 31 remains a testament to the firm’s mastery of wooden hull forms and their early adoption of performanceoriented underwater profiles.