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Malo 42, GALADRIEL– Caught on Film

October 12th, 2020

The island of Orust on the West coast of Sweden has been home to some magnificent yacht building for many years. The home to Hallberg-Rassy, Najad and of course Malo. It is also now home to the wonderful Berthon Sales Group office that is Berthon Scandinavia and the birthplace of the Malo 42, GALADRIEL. For sale and now caught on film.

Full details available here – [OFF MARKET]

Malo built 33 of the 42s between 1991 and 2002. Malo 42 GALADRIEL was the last 42 to be built. She was beautifully crafted for her current owners with a myriad of upgrades and adaptions born from their extensive cruising experience.

She has been lovingly maintained throughout her life and there is extensive documentation to prove it. Most of her recent life has been spent cruising the Caribbean and East Coast of the USA. Very sensibly her owners escaped to her once the UK winter set in and would then live on board for up to 6 months, before she would be put to bed for the rest of the year.

Malo 42 GALARDRIEL had a trip back across the Atlantic in May 2020 on the deck of a ship after a certain C word put a stop to her owner’s Caribbean season. They are now enjoying cruising her around the Solent but the time has come to move on.

She is the twin cabin version and boasts a roomy owner’s cabin up forward with a very practical separate shower and heads, which transforms the live aboard experience.

The galley also boasts a front opening fridge, which many yacht owners dream of – along with a top opening freezer. Her interior is of mahogany and is still in wonderful condition despite enjoying 18 years of cruising.

On deck, she boasts a safe and deep aft cockpit. She is easily sailed by two, with an electric halyard winch to make getting the main up that bit easier. There is also the added safety of the mainsheet being out of the cockpit and on the targa arch. The arch also helps to create great cockpit protection along with her large sprayhood, so you are well-protected come rain or shine.

Malo 42 GALADRIEL would make the perfect comfortable, safe and cosy platform for a couple looking to cruise local waters or further afield.

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The Malo 42 is a 43.14ft masthead sloop built in fiberglass by Malö Yachts (SWE) between 1991 and 2002.

33 units have been built..

The Malo 42 is a heavy sailboat which is slightly under powered. It is stable / stiff and has an excellent righting capability if capsized. It is best suited as a heavy bluewater cruising boat. The fuel capacity is average. There is an excellent water supply range.

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Malo 42 is a 43 ′ 1 ″ / 13.2 m monohull sailboat built by Malö Yachts between 1991 and 2002.

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The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.

Classic hull speed formula:

Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWL

Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio .311 Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL

Sail Area / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.

SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64) 2/3

• SA : Sail area in square feet, derived by adding the mainsail area to 100% of the foretriangle area (the lateral area above the deck between the mast and the forestay).
• D : Displacement in pounds.

Ballast / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.

Ballast / Displacement * 100

Displacement / Length Ratio

A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat’s D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.

D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³

• D: Displacement of the boat in pounds.
• LWL: Waterline length in feet

Comfort Ratio

This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat’s hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat’s motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.

Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam 1.33 )

• D: Displacement of the boat in pounds
• LOA: Length overall in feet
• Beam: Width of boat at the widest point in feet

Capsize Screening Formula

This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.

CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)

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Becalmed by a quiet market, this Swedish stalwart aims to put the wind back in its sails with a revamped 37. Chris Beeson puts a wet finger in the air

Product Overview

Manufacturer:, price as reviewed:, what’s she like to sail.

When I was growing up, Malö was a name I associated with the best of the best in cruising boats.

It meant a serious cruiser, the sort you expected to encounter anywhere exotic, from the Arctic to South Pacific anchorages.

This was my first sail aboard the famous Swedish brand so my expectations were high, perhaps unfairly so. As it turned out, the very full-cut sails meant the upwind sailing experience proved rather a disappointment.

With no backstay adjustment there was only so much we could do about the main and we had to come down to 45° apparent wind angle to get the inner telltale to stream so unsurprisingly she wasn’t the boat of my dreams upwind.

Off the wind, she bowled along very nicely, delivering a feeling of power and making decent passage-making speeds.

The wheel felt good, light and responsive in the hand, and the deep, enclosed cockpit and windscreen engendered a feeling of great comfort and security, but overall I was left with my expectations, much like the boat’s undoubted potential, somewhat unfulfilled.

A backstay tensioner should not be optional.

What’s she like in port and at anchor?

In contrast to the rather ordinary sailing experience, comfort levels down below in the exquisite mahogany cocoon are everything you’d expect of a premium brand like Malö.

The quality of materials and workmanship is uncompromising throughout, near flawless.

With grabrails everywhere you might reach and lighting everywhere you might need it, design is thoughtful and reflects decades of experience and the tweaks – the extra hatch, the larger coachroof windows and the aft-raked arch (not shown in our graphic) gild this highly finessed lily.

The only slight beef is the squeeze a portly chap might encounter when closing the forward cabin door from within.

Stowage is prodigious and ingenious touches like forward-hinged seats make me wonder why I have to scatter cushions and bits of plywood to get at under-seat stowage on other boats.

At anchor, the cockpit tent stowed against the targa arch doubles your living space as well as bringing the outside in, and those benefits can’t be overstated.

Access to the bathing platform is not as straightforward as it might be on twin-wheel boats with drop-down and walk-through transoms but it’s not exactly arduous and you’re better protected at sea.

Would she suit you and your crew?

Retirement beckons and you’ve got the money, plus a head full of ideas about getting away from the pitiful interest rates and relentless financial gloom and doing some proper cruising where every day brings something genuinely new. If that’s you, read on.

Properly kitted out with decent sails and top-spec deck gear, the Malö 37 is more than able to take you anywhere in the world in enviable comfort and with the minimum of fuss – and she’ll brush off experiences that would scar other, less sturdy boats.

I feel she’s best suited to northern latitudes but once you’ve been round the Arctic Circle, you might fancy a bit of sun and she’ll get you there too.

You could use her for coastal pottering but there are boats better suited to port-hopping and they’re cheaper too.

Still, as Malö agent Dan pointed out, some people go shopping in Range Rovers and that makes no sense either.

Sails aside, Malö has delivered a boat that earns its blue stripe and lives up to its brand name.

Will she reinvigorate Malö’s fortunes?

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MALO 42 for sale

MALÖ 42 FOR SALE Built by Malö Yachts AB, Kungsviken, Sweden in 1996 GRP insulated hull with encapsulated lead keel, finished with hand laid teak deck

The Malo 42 is known for their sea worthiness, bespoke fit to owner preference, and very high quality build and design. This beautifully main tend example of a 1996 Malö 42 shows all the characteristics of a safe, stable, true long range cruiser. With her spacious interior, beautiful finish, and her fit of offshore cruising (water maker, generator, cruising chute, and spinnaker), ROULETTA is ready in every respect for the coming season. Easily handled by a husband and wife team, be it a short passage around the coast, or a longer stretch round to the Mediterranean and trans-Atlantic and beyond, she is a serious choice for serious sailors. She offers generous accommodation for her crew, she has a good sized cockpit to compliment a spacious social area below. Very well equipped, this yacht has been very well looked after and maintained by her current owner. For sale as owners moving to larger yacht.

Viewing is highly recommended as these yachts do not come onto the market frequently and we are sure she will sell very quickly.

Asking price Euros 174,950 EU taxes paid

Location, Dingle, Ireland

For more information or to arrange viewing please contact Tim Quinlan at [email protected] or mobile 00 44 7341 12 77 55

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• Updated: March 5, 2008

Malö Yachts is one of several boatbuilders on the Swedish island of Orust, where it’s not hard to imagine on the quay a gathering of gnarled old seafarers sucking on burl pipes and passing judgment on the seaworthiness of the vessels emerging from the sheds.

It’s apparent from the fit out of the Malö 37 that its builder feels the need for it to pass that test.

Those who believe that how a boat looks is a measure of how it will sail, will find the Malö 37 not only reassuring to gaze upon; on stepping aboard, they’ll also take comfort in the ease with which they can move about. It’s not that the Malö 37 is old-fashioned; rather, its designers are simply selective. They’re equipped with the most up-to-date tools, but they don’t rush to incorporate every clever innovation that comes down the pike. For example, Malö doesn’t favor an open transom, although it offers a choice of four transom styles to suit a variety of tastes and expectations. The one we sailed had what Malö calls the Classic configuration, which is essentially a traditional, aft-raked stern.

Malö does, though, include a currently fashionable feature, and that’s the Targa arch supporting the mainsheet traveler. The Malö version is solid fiberglass, set well forward in the cockpit, and raked forward. A spray hood fills the space between the standard solid windshield and the Targa, and the combination protects enough of the cockpit seats to function as a doghouse.

The sail-control lines lead to winches on the cockpit coamings, where the helmsman can reach them without leaving the wheel. On the day we tested the boat off Annapolis, we’d sailed with the bimini-type cockpit enclosure furled against the Targa. After sailing, when we set it up by sliding the struts that support it aft along their tracks on the cockpit coaming, it was clear that it was intended for harbor use; the struts interfered with the handles for the primary winches. According to Malö’s Ulf Mattson, a different bimini arrangement is offered that clears the winch handles.

As we prepared to get under way, Mattson-no doubt confident that the rubrails, molded into the hull and available as standard equipment, would make up for any shortcomings of mine-simply handed me the wheel and told me to get on with it. As it turned out, the boat behaved well and predictably enough that I was able to weave us backward out of tight quarters without incident. We found a maximum speed of 7.7 knots at 3,200 rpm and a comfortable 6.3 knots at 2,200 rpm. When I turned the wheel hard as we motored at cruising speed, the Malö 37 spun around its keel, in its own length.

Although we set out in very light air, the boat sailed well and maneuvered easily, the rod-driven steering was smooth and responsive, and the 130-percent genoa tacked cleanly through the foretriangle every time. As the breeze built, we sailed closehauled at 5 knots in 12 apparent-perhaps the boat would’ve been faster in these conditions with a traditional mainsail rather than the optional in-mast furling main.

Our destination was Galesville, about 15 miles by direct navigable route from Annapolis’ Back Creek, and the southeasterly wind had us beating, albeit gently, until we’d cleared Thomas Point. When we cracked off to a close reach, the GPS showed us doing 6.7 knots in 14 apparent. On both points of sail, once trimmed, the boat maintained a steady course with little assistance from the helmsman.

Malö delivers the 37 with an impressive selection of cherry-picked sailing hardware: Harken jib furling and mainsheet traveler, Seldén spars, Lewmar hatches, Andersen winches, and a Wichard adjuster on the removable inner forestay. Tackles on the genoa cars made adjusting the lead from beating to reaching simple, and doing so brought into focus the practice Malö makes of fastening most of the highly loaded hardware directly to fiberglass, even though elevating those areas proud of the standard-issue 12-millimeter-thick teak decking complicates both the mold and the layup process.

The Malö 37 we sailed had a unique anchoring arrangement: The windlass is inside the foredeck chain locker, and the anchor rode and shank, when not in use, are pulled into a hawse pipe on the bow. While this is a tidy solution, I saw no provision for securing the anchor other than with the windlass, and I wondered about water literally pumping into the space in heavy going to windward. I subsequently learned that a second bow roller is standard but hadn’t been set up on our test boat, so a chain snubber could easily be led to a foredeck cleat. Mattson also says that customers report that the flukes of a Bruce anchor minimize water entry and that any water that does get in drains quickly. Mattson assured me that if an owner requests it, Malö can provide a more conventional fitting on the stemhead.

Malö remains faithful to traditional concepts: Mahogany joinery, much of it solid wood, under a white, batten-trimmed overhead sets the tone for a warm, club-style ambience that the button-tufted upholstery picks up. The layout is simple and functional: head tucked aft, nav desk to starboard, galley to port, U-shaped dining area opposite a straight settee, a full-sized cabin at either end of the boat, and everywhere fiddles around work surfaces. What’s not immediately obvious is that every part of the interior, with the exception of the main structural bulkhead, was brought in through the companionway opening. The hull and deck are molded separately, the main bulkhead is glassed in, then the two are joined and glassed together before any of the components-secondary bulkheads included-are installed. The result is a watertight monocoque whole-and the assurance that eventual replacement of the engine and other installations that won’t outlast the hull can be effected without resource to a Sawzall.

Smaller boatbuilders such as Malö can be less driven by the quantity of boats they must produce; instead, they can concentrate on including features that add value both to the boat and to the experience of owning it. Malö Yachts addresses this niche precisely, and the Malö 37 is a classic expression of the philosophy.

Jeremy McGeary is a Cruising World contributing editor.

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Review of Malö 43

Basic specs..

The hull is made of fibreglass. Generally, a hull made of fibreglass requires only a minimum of maintenance during the sailing season.

The boat is equipped with 549.0 liter fresh water capacity.

The boat equipped with a masthead rig. The advantage of a masthead rig is its simplicity and the fact that a given sail area - compared with a fractional rig - can be carried lower and thus with less heeling moment.

The Malö 43 is equipped with a fin keel. A boat with a fin keel is more manoeuvrable but has less directional stability than a similar boat with a long keel.

The keel is made of lead. Compared with iron, lead has the advantage of being 44% heavier, which allows a smaller keel and hence less water resistance and higher speed.

The boat can only enter major marinas as the draft is about 1.97 - 2.07 meter (6.46 - 6.76 ft) dependent on the load. See immersion rate below.

Malö 43 is typically equipped with an inboard Yanmar 4JH3T(B)E diesel engine.

The fuel tank has a capacity of 371.0 liters (98 US gallons, 81 imperial gallons).

Sailing characteristics

This section covers widely used rules of thumb to describe the sailing characteristics. Please note that even though the calculations are correct, the interpretation of the results might not be valid for extreme boats.

What is Capsize Screening Formula (CSF)?

The capsize screening value for Malö 43 is 1.80, indicating that this boat could - if evaluated by this formula alone - be accepted to participate in ocean races.

What is Theoretical Maximum Hull Speed?

The theoretical maximal speed of a displacement boat of this length is 8.0 knots. The term "Theoretical Maximum Hull Speed" is widely used even though a boat can sail faster. The term shall be interpreted as above the theoretical speed a great additional power is necessary for a small gain in speed.

The immersion rate is defined as the weight required to sink the boat a certain level. The immersion rate for Malö 43 is about 286 kg/cm, alternatively 1605 lbs/inch. Meaning: if you load 286 kg cargo on the boat then it will sink 1 cm. Alternatively, if you load 1605 lbs cargo on the boat it will sink 1 inch.

Sailing statistics

This section is statistical comparison with similar boats of the same category. The basis of the following statistical computations is our unique database with more than 26,000 different boat types and 350,000 data points.

What is Motion Comfort Ratio (MCR)?

What is L/B (Length Beam Ratio)?

What is a Ballast Ratio?

What is Displacement Length Ratio?

What is SA/D (Sail Area Displacement ratio)?

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• 25 Dec 2012

hi. first time poster Thanks for all the useful info found so far. Have a question, I'm considering a malo 38 as a liveaboard for Atlantic circuit and season in the med 1-2 years. There are around 7 for sale across Europe widely ranging prices but all significantly cheaper than other comparable malo (36 &39). The 38 price wise compares very well to other blue water boats like rival, rustler, bowman. Does anybody have some opinion on this boat and reason why it seems cheaper than other malo's? interested if any (ex)owners could comment on performance and suitability for Atlantic circuit. I've noticed that it's rudder isn't fully protected and often no double bow roller hence unsure it is a true blue water? thanks  

• 29 Dec 2012

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Welcome aboard! No detailed knowledge for you but no doubt others will be along shortly. What I would say though, is that we looked at the Malo 38 and found it small for its size (and we're used to a traditional, slender hull). The later 36 and 39 appeared beamier and carried that beam well aft making aft cabins more viable - that in the 38 was very small indeed. The relative volume - and I think the 38 is older too - may go some way to explaining the price differential over the 36 & 39. Good luck in your search.  

phantomlady

We owned a 1992 Malo 38 for four years during which time we lived aboard for the greater part of two years and cruised extensively including an atlantic circuit and season in the East Caribbean. Very nice boat in our opinion. Always felt safe and well protected at sea. Sailed well. Had a few problems with leaks around stanchion bases (design fault apparently). Good to liveaboard for two people. Well ventilated for hot climates.  

• 20 Feb 2013

Thanks for the feedback all. I did contact malo about the stanchion bases phantonlady and they did not seem to be aware of the stanchion issue, but will let the surveyor know if I go ahead with sale. Currently I'm still in 2 minds about the massive amount of teak which probably will need replacement over the next 1-5 years... Will keep you updated!  

If it has teak decks don't just walk away RUN !  

TQA said: If it has teak decks don't just walk away RUN ! Click to expand...

• 21 Feb 2013

eagle160 said: It's a big concern for me but then again almost all malo's / HRs/ Najads / etc ever sold have teak aplenty and they are still being sold like that, so it makes me wonder if it's not so bad after all? Click to expand...

• 22 Feb 2013

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TQA said: Sit down before you open the envelope containing the quote for a deck replacement job. Also have you tried walking barefoot on a teak deck in Med/Carib sun. Remember the Arther shuffle in 10. Click to expand...

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