Najad 440

You run a hand along the complex furniture radii and feel Dick Young / Rhodes Young joinery under the fingertips. On a 13 m cruiser it is easy to read as hotel luxury - but under the woodwork the hull school is Judel/Vrolijk.

Najad 440-2, window 2005-2017, hull 13.50 × 4.03 m (not the catalog drift 2012 / 13.35 × 4.05). Divinycell sandwich (closed-cell foam) and a spade rudder without a skeg - not the older 440-1 (1986-1995, about 13.30 × 3.99, fin+skeg). Under one name the 440-2 comes as aft-cockpit (AC) and center-cockpit (CC) on the same underwater body: not every «Najad 440» card is a sister to Najad 390 or an HR 43 centre-cockpit only.

AC versus CC here is deck living, not a generation change. Aft-cockpit (AC) opens toward the water; centre cockpit (CC) is the sheltered cocoon with a windscreen for longer passages. Engine class Volvo Penta D2-75; verify the drive on this hull from papers (sources mention both saildrive and shaft - Gap). Tank tables often print about 425/550 L - again this card, not a neighbour.

Three draft options in class (about 1.90 / 2.10 / 2.40 m in tables) change Baltic access and resale: deep helps upwind, shallow helps the skerries. Before survey: moisture map on the sandwich, teak, electronics and systems by invoices - not a «condition unknown» stamp. A neighbouring card can be a 440-1, a 390, an HR 43 or an HR 412 - Swedish badge, different life. On the Baltic, berth and winter sit in the ~13.5 m class; waiting for the AC/CC plan you need beats grabbing a neighbouring CC only because the badge says Najad. An AC owner usually argues about swim-platform access and an open cockpit; a CC owner argues about the windscreen and night watches in the cocoon. Both share one underwater body but live differently, so a shortlist that says only «Najad 44 ft» without AC/CC breaks survey and price. Ashore, look past Young gloss to keelbolts for the chosen draft and grounding marks on a deep keel.