2012 Cruisers Yachts Cruisers 48 Cantius — Red Wing, MN

A 2012 Cruisers 48 Cantius at Red Wing, Minnesota, asking $459,000 through Midwest Yacht Sales. The 48 opened the Cantius line in 2011 — the Wisconsin yard's case that a sedan's enclosed comfort and an express cruiser's pace belong in one hull. The signature is glass and daylight: a two-level saloon with sliding doors aft and the galley open under a long sunroof, and the model was drawn around Volvo IPS pod drives with joystick docking. This hull is from the second year of the 2011–2016 run, listed one state over from the yard, still in the builder's home waters.

Two honesty notes. We hold no sister 48 Cantius, so the shelf cannot say whether $459,000 is keen for a 2012 boat — and we have not surveyed her; we hold no condition detail. And Red Wing is a river berth on the upper Mississippi: price the delivery before comparing her against coastal boats.

What the shelf does place is the company she keeps. Near half a million dollars, almost everything else we hold carries a mast — cruising catamarans and trimarans own this band. She files under the powerboats, but her rivals here mostly sail.

The one exception under power is the 2005 MJM 34z at Fort Lauderdale — the opposite instinct, a Downeast express fourteen feet shorter, seven years older, $129,000 less:

If the budget is fixed and the mast negotiable, the 2020 Lagoon 40 at Emeryville is nearly the same money, eight years newer:

And where length and living volume are the point, the 2021 NEEL 47 at La Rochelle keeps both under sail, nine years newer for $91,800 more:

But if the brief is a glass saloon at express pace under power, nothing else on this shelf answers it — this is the one to survey first: