LM Motorsailers for sale

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LM – first they built furniture, then yachts and finally wind turbines. All with success and undiminished enthusiasm! For 20 years, LM yachts shaped the motorsailer and deckhouse scene.

Motorsailer! This used to be a term that sounded like an insult to the purists among sailors, while to powerboaters it smacked of a "lazy compromise". That motorsailers can – viewed positively – genuinely be "the best of both worlds" was proven early on by the Danish LM yard.

It all started with furniture

The Danish company LM (Lunderskov Møbelfabrik) started out in 1940 as a manufacturer of wooden furniture. In the 1950s, the company began incorporating "newfangled" fiberglass into its furniture and changed its name to LM Glasfiber.

In the early seventies, the company radically expanded its product range for the first time and built the LM27, its first fiberglass sailboat, with a strikingly large deckhouse, Nordic headroom in the cabin area and, by the standards of the time, remarkably powerful engines. Although the boat struck sailors as rather clunky and powerboat fans as underpowered, the LM27 went on to shape several generations of motorsailers.

Thousands of boats built

Over the following 20 years, 3,000 boats were built across five models ranging from 24 to 32 feet. In 1995, LM stopped building boats, reinvented its successful formula once again and focused on producing wind turbine blades. The manufacturer is known today as the LM Wind Power Group and claims to be the world's largest manufacturer of wind turbine blades.

Most LM boats were sold in Europe, and primarily in the Baltic region. In the eighties, however, a quarter of the fiberglass hulls were sold to the USA for further finishing, especially to the Great Lakes region and the East Coast. Unfavorable exchange rates made LM yachts unattractive for US buyers just a few years later, though.

Double-ender par excellence

LM reportedly sold the hull molds to the English company ScanYachts, which built only two or three boats based on them, the last of these in 2004.

Besides the voluminous and sturdy deckhouse/deck saloon look already mentioned, LM yachts are defined above all by their canoe stern, or double-ended hulls.
All LM boats were sold with either a Bukh (Germany) or a Volvo diesel (Sweden).

Most of the models still widely available on the used boat market today have since been fitted with a replacement engine (including from other brands).