Maxus 21 Buyer's Guide
Shopping the used market for a Maxus 21 means chasing a Northman Shipyard-built, Jacek Daszkiewicz-designed trailerable sloop that Northman made from 2011 until it went out of production. These are inshore pocket cruisers on a pivoting centreboard, not passagemakers, and the smart buyer reads them as coastal-dayboat-with-cabin rather than miniature offshore yachts. Most survivors still wear the original fibreglass hull and deck, and the appeal is launch-and-go simplicity.
Layouts on the Used Market
Every example follows the same essential plan: a 23-foot-odd monohull with a two-level cockpit and a wide aft hull line, a centreboard keel that lifts for shallow water, and a belowdecks arrangement of two double berths fore and aft around a spacious salon and a galley. Headroom is near average for the size, and the manufacturer’s claim of high comfort for four holds up as a layout statement rather than a luxury one. You are looking at a boat that sleeps four and trails behind a car — the variant is condition and trailer, not footprint.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
Solar power is commonly fitted, which matters because the original electrical budget on a 2,750-pound dayboat is thin; a panel keeps lights and a phone alive at anchor. A short-handed setup is also common, and for a boat meant to be sailed off a ramp by a couple, that usually means led-back controls and easy solo trimming rather than a stripped race layout. Beyond those two, keep your eye on the centreboard pivot and the trailer, since the boat lives or dies on its ability to launch and retrieve cleanly.
What to Inspect
The immersion rate is about 548 pounds per inch, so check for hull sag or stress around the centreboard trunk where the pivoting keel loads the hull. The CE Class C certification limits the boat to inshore waters, so verify the rig and standing gear have not been pushed past that brief. Confirm the solid fiberglass hull and deck show no delamination, and that the two-level cockpit drains properly — a trapped cockpit on a light racer is a flooding path worth ruling out.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
Typical markets for these boats are Sweden and Switzerland, reflecting their inland-and-coastal brief more than any ocean reach. For the buyer, the takeaway is simple: confirm road-legal trailing weight, test the centreboard pivot, check the cockpit drainage, and expect solar and short-handed kit as standard used-market trim. A clean example is a low-fuss four-berth weekender that launches where bigger boats cannot.
Price & volume trends
Monthly asking-price and listing-volume trends for the Maxus 21. 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. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26 | 1 | $16,832 | — |
Where they're listed
Maxus 21 listings appear across 1 country. Switzerland has the most listings with 1.
Country view
1 listings · 1 country| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | $16,832 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
Comparable models
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Beneteau First 21.7 | 21' | $ 22,017 | 24 | 4 |
| Parker Boats 21 | 21' | $ 5,325 | 6 | 2 |
| Maxus 21You are here | — | $ 16,832 | 1 | 0 |