Standfast 40 Sailboats for Sale

Layouts on the Used Market

Owner three-cabin layouts are the more common on the used market, but both are available, and ex-charter examples are common. The two-cabin charter variant tends to show more concentrated wear in the saloon and heads from higher turnover, while the three-cabin owner boats often retain more original joinery and a quieter service history. Either way the 13-foot-8 beam and 100-gallon water capacity signal a boat laid out for living aboard rather than for bareboat minimalism.

Equipment and Common Upgrades

On the used market the Standfast 40 commonly carries teak decks, heating, and a chartplotter as factory-era or early upgrades. Often-seen additions include a spinnaker, bimini, radar, AIS, and autopilot — a cluster that tells you most brokers' examples are already set up for short-handed coastal or offshore passage-making. Less common but worth paying for when present are the owner-upgrade items: solar and an inverter for power independence, a furling main and electric winches for easier handling, and a bow thruster for the tight marina approaches the 7.4-to-7.7-foot draft demands. A watermaker or freezer is a rarer find and signals a boat prepared for longer arcs.

What to Inspect

The solid fiberglass hull and solid fiberglass deck avoid the cored-hull and cored-deck moisture questions, so the real survey items are hardware penetration and stress around the deck joint and through-hulls. The long original rigging runs — mainsheet of 30.5 m and halyards of 38.2 m — mean any boat with undocumented line age should be assumed to need a full running-rig replacement, and the 14 mm sheet diameters are a useful go/no-go check against undersized aftermarket substitutions. The Volvo Penta MD28 of 25 horsepower will be decades past its first service interval on every example, so compression, wet exhaust, and fuel system condition are the real survey items rather than the block itself.

Availability and Buyer's Takeaway

Standfast 40s typically appear in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, and New Zealand. For the shopper, the short list is: confirm the deck and hull are sound before anything else; budget a full rigging refresh regardless of seller assurances; verify the MD28's history or price in a rebuild; and accept that the draft will write your pilotage for you. A three-cabin owner example with a documented history and a fresh rig is the prize; an ex-charter two-cabin boat at the right price is the project.