Vindö 40 Buyer's Guide
The Vindö 40 is a Swedish-built cruiser from the early 1970s, designed by Carl Andersson with John Henrik Volter Lindblom and produced by Nötesunds Varv AB in several hundred hulls. She is a 31-foot fiberglass long-keeler with lead ballast and a mahogany interior — a traditional heavy cruiser that still turns up across European and American brokerage markets for buyers who want seakeeping over speed.
Layouts on the Used Market
On the used market you will find the standard cruising interior with five to six berths and headroom noted as above average for the size. The cabin is finished in mahogany, and the boat carries 150 liters of fresh water and a 50-liter diesel tank. The solid fiberglass hull sits on a long lead-ballasted keel with a draft around 4.6 feet, and the engine options are the Volvo Penta MD2B at 25 hp or the MD11C at 23 hp, both shaft-driven. These are auxiliary powerplants for a heavy-displacement hull rather than motors for punching into a schedule.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
Heating and autopilot are commonly fitted, reflecting her role as a liveaboard or extended-cruise boat. Teak decks, solar panels, spinnaker gear, AIS, and chartplotter are often seen, the last two speaking to owners who have modernized navigation without altering the hull. Less commonly, you may find an inverter, EPIRB, or life raft as owner upgrades. For a buyer, the meaningful clusters are power and energy — solar paired with a possible inverter — and navigation, where AIS and a chartplotter have usually replaced paper work; canvas and sail handling often include a spinnaker for light-air days.
What to Inspect
The Vindö 40's hull is solid fiberglass with a lead long keel, and this is a structural element to examine for grounding damage at the keel's leading edge and for any sign of water entry at the keel-hull joint. The mahogany interior should be checked for the rot and seal failure that traditional varnished wood invites where it meets fiberglass, especially around the cabin trunk. Because the boat may carry a Volvo Penta MD2B or MD11C diesel, confirm which engine is fitted and inspect the raw-water cooling path and shaft drive for corrosion or clogging consistent with an older raw-water-cooled unit.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
These boats are typically found in Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, and the United States. For a shopper, the short checklist is: confirm the engine model and cooling condition; look hard at the wood-to-fiberglass seams and any teak deck screw penetrations; check the long keel for ground contact; and verify the masthead rig's standing rigging given her slightly overrigged sail plan. A Vindö 40 rewards the buyer who wants a stable, shoal-draft cruiser and accepts the wood-maintenance rhythm that comes with her mahogany cabin.
Price & volume trends
Monthly asking-price and listing-volume trends for the Vindö 40. The line shows the median ask each month; the bars show how many listings appeared.
Monthly breakdown · 9 rows
| Month | Listings | Median ask | Δ vs. last mo. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25 | 7 | $23,308 | — |
| Oct 25 | 1 | $25,639 | +10.0% |
| Feb 26 | 5 | $22,143 | -13.6% |
| Mar 26 | 5 | $17,481 | -21.1% |
| Apr 26 | 4 | $24,765 | +41.7% |
| May 26 | 3 | $20,948 | -15.4% |
| Jun 26 | 2 | $17,423 | -16.8% |
| Jul 26 | 3 | $31,466 | +80.6% |
| Aug 26 | 2 | $22,561 | -28.3% |
Where they're listed
Vindö 40 listings appear across 9 countries. Germany has the most listings with 16 (53.3%), followed by Switzerland and Netherlands.
Country view
30 listings · 9 countries| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | $23,250 | 16 | 4 | 53.3% |
| Switzerland | $22,963 | 4 | 1 | 13.3% |
| Netherlands | $22,753 | 4 | 1 | 13.3% |
| Denmark | $24,943 | 1 | 0 | 3.3% |
| Italy | $11,654 | 1 | 1 | 3.3% |
| Lithuania | $13,344 | 1 | 0 | 3.3% |
| Norway | $27,816 | 1 | 0 | 3.3% |
| Poland | $15,733 | 1 | 0 | 3.3% |
| Sweden | $14,169 | 1 | 0 | 3.3% |
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