Schock 40 Sailboats for Sale & Market Overview

Drawing Diagram

Builder drawing

Hull type

Monohull · fin

Rig

Masthead Sloop

LOA

40' · 12.19 m

Displ.

7,000 lbs · 3,175 kg

First year

2000

The Schock 40 arrived on the sailing scene in 2001 as a radical departure from traditional performance yacht design, representing a bold collaboration between W.D. Schock and the engineering team at DynaYacht. It was famously the first production sailboat to feature Canting Ballast Twin Foil (CBTF) technology, a system designed to decouple the boat's stability from its steering and liftgeneration. While most 40footers of its era relied on heavy fixed keels, the Schock 40 utilized a slim, leadbulbed fin that could swing 55 degrees to either side, effectively providing the righting moment of a much larger, heavier vessel without the associated drag. This design philosophy aimed to provide "maxiyacht" speeds in a platform that could still be managed by a clubracing crew, marking a highwater mark for West Coast performance engineering.