For Sale: 1998 Custom Trident Marine Warrior 40 – Blue Water Cruiser Project with Exceptional Potential – Price Just Reduced
Here’s a unique opportunity for the right buyer: a Trident Marine Warrior 40, built in 1998 and remarkably never launched. This is a rare find – a classic, British-built blue water cruiser that is approximately 80% complete, now waiting for someone with vision, skill, and passion to bring her to life.
Designed for serious offshore sailing, the Warrior 40 is renowned for its strength, stability, and long-distance cruising capability. This particular example already showcases a high standard of craftsmanship, praised by a marine surveyor during an inspection in July 2024. The structural and cosmetic work completed to date reflects both quality and attention to detail.
What remains is a manageable and rewarding phase of the build — installation of the engine, electrics, and plumbing — giving the next owner full control over system specification and layout. You’re not just buying a yacht; you’re stepping into a build that’s nearly there, with the opportunity to tailor the final stages to your exact needs and preferences.
Included in the sale:
A range of new, unused components to support the final fit-out
A solid and well-regarded hull design, perfectly suited for long-distance cruising
Huge potential for value uplift once completed and commissioned
⚓ Why Consider This Project?
Cost-effective route to owning a proven ocean-going yacht
Personal satisfaction of completing a high-quality vessel to your own standards
Ideal for skilled hands or experienced sailors seeking a hands-on challenge with a valuable reward at the end
Rare opportunity to bring a never-launched 1998 Warrior 40 to life
📍 Location: Currently in dry dock, West Sussex (not Brighton Marina)
🔑 Viewings: Strictly by prior arrangement
If you’re ready to take on a worthwhile project with serious potential, this Warrior 40 deserves your attention. For more details or to arrange a viewing, please get in touch.
Disclaimer and Travelling to Inspect
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Specifications
General | |
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Builder | Trident Marine (UK) Ltd |
Designer | Angus Primrose/Bill Dixon |
Year | 1998 |
Length | 39' 4" |
Engine | Volvo Penta MD22 |
Hull | Fibreglass/GRP |
Price | £54,950 |
Location | West Sussex |
Full
- Dimensions
- Length: 39' 4"
- Beam: 13' 0"
- Draft: 5' 0"
- Displacement: 10000 kg
- Ballast: 4250 kg
- Engines
- Brand: Volvo Penta
- Total Power: 50
- Model: MD22
- Type: Single
- Drive Type: Shaft
- Engine Age: 1998
- Tanks
- Fresh Water: 750 litres
- Fuel: 189 litres
- Holding: 60 litres
- Accommodation
- Number of Single Berths:
- Number of Double Berths:
- Number of Cabins:
- Number of Heads:
Features
- Vendor may consider part exchange
- The vessel was brought by her owner as a “home finish” hull
- Approximately 80% of the remaining work has been completed
- Structural survey carried out July 24 also lists items onboard that are yet to be completed
- Encapsulated iron shot & lead shot ballast fin keel
- GRP skeg hung type rudder
- Wheel steering, currently removed & with owner
- Propeller currently removed & with owner
- Surveyor found external Saildrive to be in like-new condition
- Saildrive external rubber gator recommended replacement before launch
- White superstructure with grey painted non-slip areas
- 6 Hatches onboard were all found to be in a good condition at time of survey
- 14 Fixed & 2 opening windows found to be in good condition at time of survey
- Surveyor noted all seacocks onboard were found to be in a good condition
- Two berth fore-cabin with heads compartment to port
- Two aft cabins, a heads compartment to starboard aft
- Saloon has a galley to port & a settee on the starboard side
- Surveyor noted internal joinery to be in good order & floorboards in a like new condition
- Upholstery is currently stored with the owner & is apparently unused
- The headlining will need to be installed to the vessel
- Surveyor noted side-lining was all found to be in a good condition
- Engine wiring, lines & exhaust has not yet been installed
- No fuel lines, filters, or valves have been installed to the vessel
- No batteries, isolator switches, or a control panel have currently been fitted to the vessel
- 2 Plastic water tanks (750 litres total), 1 tank is located to starboard of the saloon & 1 is located to centre of the saloon
- Both tanks are yet to be plumbed in
- Calorifier has been fitted within the portside aft cabin but has not been installed
- 70% of the water piping as been installed to the vessel
- 2 Jabsco manual toilets fitted onboard
- Toilets will require plumbing in
- 60-litre plastic holding tank has been fitted to the aft toilet
- 20kg CQR type anchor within the anchor locker
- A vast inventory of additional items, not fully detailed here, is included with this yacht
- Saloon has a galley to port
- Twin stainless steel sinks
- Hot & cold water plumbing system in place, needs finishing
- Mast constructed of aluminium & has two pairs of inline spreaders
- The age of the standing rigging is unknown but found to be in serviceable condition
- 7 Winches (four in the cockpit - Lewmar 44 and 28, one on the mast - Lewmar 40, & two within the v-berth - Lewmar 40 not fitted)
- Running rigging fitted was recommended as likely needing to be replaced
- No halyards have been fitted to the mast
- According to the current owner of the vessel, there are 3 like new sails stored at home