Mystery Class Sailboats for Sale & Market Overview

Drawing Diagram

Builder drawing

Hull type

Monohull · full

Rig

Cutter

LOA

38.98' · 11.88 m

Displ.

15,653 lbs · 7,100 kg

First year

1936

The Mystery Class, produced by the Clark Boat Company, represents a distinct chapter in the Pacific Northwest’s history of performance dinghy development. Launched during the 1970s, a period when the builder was rapidly expanding its "San Juan" line of cruisers, the Mystery Class was conceived as a pure, highperformance onedesign racer intended to challenge the dominance of established dinghies like the 470 or the Laser. Unlike the builder's more famous trailersailers, the Mystery was an exercise in minimalist, athletic sailing, distilled into a 14foot6inch fiberglass hull. It was marketed to a niche of sailors who demanded the build quality of Clark’s larger yachts in a package capable of sustained planing and sensitive response. While it did not achieve the massive production numbers of the San Juan 21, the Mystery remains a prized relic of the Bruce Kirby design era, showcasing the builder’s ability to transition from heavydisplacement Star boats to modern, highaspectratio dinghy racers.