Sweden 52 Sailboats for Sale & Market Overview

Drawing Diagram

Builder drawing

Hull type

Monohull · fin

Rig

Masthead Sloop

LOA

52.03' · 15.86 m

Displ.

33,840 lbs · 15,350 kg

First year

1996

The Sweden Yachts 52 is a quintessential example of the "Scandinavian Performance Cruiser," a vessel designed to marry the highlatitude seaworthiness of a heavydisplacement voyager with the sophisticated hull lines of a racing thoroughbred. Developed by the prolific design partnership of Peter Norlin and Jens Östman, the 52 was engineered to occupy a specific market niche: owners who found the Sweden Yachts 45 too compact for extended family cruising but desired more agility than the flagship 70footers of the era. Built at the yard’s facility in Stenungsund, the 52 evolved from the earlier Sweden Yachts 50 hull, benefitting from a refined keel profile and an updated sail plan that improved lightwind performance without sacrificing the brand’s signature stability in a gale. Unlike many massproduced yachts of its size, the 52 was constructed using a sandwich composite method with an endgrain balsa core, a technique the yard perfected to ensure high longitudinal stiffness while keeping the center of gravity low.