2017 Nautitech Catamarans Nautitech 40 — Le Marin – Martinique

A 2017 Nautitech 40 Open at Le Marin, Martinique, asking $340,200 through Neo Marine. The model opened the yard's whole "Open" line in 2013: Marc Lombard drew saloon and cockpit as one continuous level and set the two helms aft on the sterns where the charter yards put a flybridge. Rochefort builds them resin-infused over foam core — lighter than the charter norm at 39.3 ft on a 21.3 ft beam — and reviews of the type keep landing on the same verdict: a production cat that actually sails.

Two honesty notes. This is the only Nautitech 40 we hold, so there is no sister ship to benchmark the asking price against; and we carry no condition detail on this hull — nobody has surveyed it for us.

What the shelf does place is the band. Every comparable we hold built before 2017 asks under $200,000; the 2018-and-newer boats run $323,892 to $489,000, and at $340,200 this hull enters that modern band near its floor. The awkward fact sits on the same island: a 2018 Lagoon 42 at Martinique is a year newer, three feet longer, and asks $16,308 less. This boat belongs with the charter-size catamarans, and the Lagoon is the cross-check to make first:

What the Nautitech answers with is sailing manners rather than volume. And if it is newness at exactly this length you are paying for, the 2020 Lagoon 40 at Emeryville prices it: $148,800 over this boat for three more years:

Where the opposite instinct leads, the 2006 Leopard 40 buys the same forty feet, eleven years older, for $140,300 less:

But if the one-level, aft-helm idea is what brought you here, this is the only boat on the shelf that has it — this is the one to survey first: