Nauticat 39 Buyer's Guide
Shopping the brokerage market for a used Nauticat 39 means looking at a Finnish-built, Kaj Gustafsson-designed pilothouse sloop produced from the early nineties — a 39-foot fractional-rig cruiser with an inside steering station and a solid fiberglass hull. These are boats conceived for high-latitude voyaging, and the used fleet reflects that intent: ex-charter examples are common, and the layout you find most often is the owner three-cabin plan, though both configurations turn up.
Layouts on the Used Market
Owner three-cabin layouts are the more common on the used market, but both are available; ex-charter examples are common. The pilothouse itself is the defining space, giving a refuge in rain and cold plus an inside helm from which the boat can be sailed without running the engine in wet conditions. A family cruising setup typically shows stowage for two growing kids, a 110-gallon fresh water tank, and a battery bank sized for a week or more off shore power — so a buyer should confirm the tank and bank match that brief rather than an abbreviated charter spec.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
On the used market these boats commonly carry electric winches, teak decks, radar, autopilot, chartplotter, life raft, spinnaker, hot water, and a swim platform — a suite that already covers power handling, navigation, and comfort. For a voyaging buyer the load-bearing clusters are energy and steering (generator and battery bank sized for off-grid weeks, electric winches reducing cockpit labor), navigation and safety (radar, autopilot, chartplotter, life raft as standard offshore kit), and canvas and sail handling (spinnaker and teak decks as common fitted gear). A specific 2003 boat came with a generator, but that unit's head gasket had been replaced pre-sale and still never worked for its owners, so any fitted generator needs a live load test.
What to Inspect
The one documented known issue is auxiliary-generator reliability on individual boats: a 2003 example's generator had its head gasket replaced shortly before purchase yet never functioned properly afterward anchor. A buyer should run the generator under load and verify cooling and compression rather than accept a recent gasket job as proof. Beyond that, the hull is solid fiberglass and standard hull and deck surveys apply given the ex-charter presence in the fleet.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
The typical markets for these boats are the United Kingdom and Finland. For a shopper, the short checklist is: confirm the layout is the owner three-cabin if that matters to you, load-test any generator rather than trust a recent repair, verify the water tank and battery bank match long-range specs, and expect common fitted gear to include electric winches, autopilot, and radar. The Nauticat 39 rewards the buyer who wants pilothouse shelter without giving up upwind sailing — provided the individual boat's systems are sound.
Price & volume trends
Monthly asking-price and listing-volume trends for the Nauticat 39. The line shows the median ask each month; the bars show how many listings appeared.
Monthly breakdown · 2 rows
| Month | Listings | Median ask | Δ vs. last mo. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25 | 1 | $162,556 | — |
| Apr 26 | 3 | $162,556 | 0.0% |
Where they're listed
Nauticat 39 listings appear across 2 countries. United Kingdom has the most listings with 2 (66.7%), followed by Finland.
Country view
3 listings · 2 countries| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | $162,556 | 2 | 0 | 66.7% |
| Finland | $156,765 | 1 | 0 | 33.3% |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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