Used Bluewater sailboats for sale

"Bluewater" is the most abused word in boat listings — every tired charter boat becomes an "ocean cruiser" the day it goes up for sale. This shelf holds the boats whose designs carry an actual ocean-crossing pedigree, thirty feet and up, verified against the design file rather than the broker's adjectives. The question this page answers is the one buyers actually type: which boats here, today, could take my family across an ocean?

The specialist yards anchor it. NEEL builds the only production ocean trimarans — the 43 through 51, La Rochelle boats designed around two-hundred-mile days. Lagoon put more families on two hulls than any yard in history, and its 380 and 42 are the reference points the whole used-cat market prices against. Between them sit Fountaine Pajot's lighter cats, Nautitech's sailor's cats with their aft helms, and Rapido's carbon flyers. The picks above cut across all of it, $119k to $749k.

Two bridges worth knowing. Some ocean boats fold for the road — the Corsair 37 on this shelf is also the top of the trailerable shelf. And if the budget is the constraint rather than the ocean, the same verified files sort by price on the full sailboat shelf — the honest cheap passage-maker exists, it just takes longer to find.