Sailfish 25 Sailboats for Sale & Market Overview

Drawing Diagram

Builder drawing

Hull type

Monohull · lifting

Rig

Fractional Sloop

LOA

25.42' · 7.75 m

Displ.

5,000 lbs · 2,268 kg

First year

1978

The Sailfish 25 is a robust, Britishbuilt pocket cruiser that emerged in the late 1970s as a sophisticated alternative to the era’s more common bilgekeelers. Designed by the esteemed Angus Primrose—the architect behind the legendary Westerly Centaur—and manufactured by Maxim Marine Ltd. in Southampton, the Sailfish 25 was intended to bridge the gap between trailerable daysailers and serious coastal cruisers. It represents a period of maritime engineering focused on maximizing internal volume and versatility for the tidal estuaries of Northern Europe. While it shared a name with its much more prolific smaller sibling, the Sailfish 18, the 25foot variant was a far more substantial vessel, offering genuine standing headroom and the seakeeping abilities required for crosschannel passages.