2003 Hunter 466 — Pensacola, FL 32501

A 2003 Hunter 466 lying at Pensacola, asking $99,900 through Edwards Yacht Sales. Hunter's own design team drew it, in build 2002–2004 only: 46.1 ft on 14.0 ft of beam, two private cabins, two heads. The signature is the B&R rig: swept spreaders, no backstay, no runners, the yard's answer to how two people work a forty-six-footer. The type's public record matches the brief — volume, a sociable cockpit, a coastal cruiser owners have taken offshore rather than one drawn for it — and it puts the attention on chainplates, mast step and spreader fittings, where that rig concentrates its loads. Hulls of this era also sit inside a Hunter thru-hull valve recall.

Two honesty notes. Our file carries no condition, equipment or days-on-market detail — year, length, price, place, broker, nothing more. And there is no second 466 in front of us, so the price reads across models rather than against a sister.

Read that way it is the volume argument: $99,900 puts it at the ceiling of the under-$100k monohulls, five to six feet longer than the 2000s forty-footers asking near the same money. Forty-six feet also costs forty-six feet to keep — rig, sails, ground tackle, haulout, slip: a lot of liveaboard boat, and a lot of boat to maintain.

The same yard one size down is the 2004 Hunter 41 Deck Salon at Hilton Head: a year newer, nearly six feet shorter, $10,005 less.

If it is living space you are buying, the two-hull route reaches it differently — a 1995 Fountaine Pajot Athena 38 at Saint Augustine, $4,900 less for eight fewer feet.

And where the opposite instinct leads, fewer feet better built, the 2008 Wauquiez Centurion 40S asks $49,100 more for five feet less.

But if it is forty-six feet at this money you came for, this is the one to survey first: