1998 John Shuttleworth Ocean Cheetah 37 — Deltaville, VA 23043

A 1998 Shuttleworth Ocean Cheetah 37 Custom at Deltaville, Virginia, asking $95,000 through YaZu Yachting. John Shuttleworth has drawn fast ocean multihulls since 1980, and the Ocean Cheetah 37 was his answer to the Prout cruising cats that owned this market — a familiar cruising layout on his trademark flared hulls, widening the accommodation without fattening the waterlines, the interior built light to keep the speed the shape promises. Only two are reported built. This one lists at 39.5 ft against the design's 37-foot LOA; the "Custom" in the name is doing real work.

Two honesty notes. With two hulls in existence there is no sister ship on our shelf and never will be a benchmark — this price stands on survey, not statistics. And we hold no condition record; a custom one-off lives on the quality of its build, so budget the inspection accordingly.

What the shelf does place is the company she keeps: at $95,000 she is priced level with the mainstream production cats of her era, not over them, while mid-2000s Lagoon 380s ask $167,400–$178,200. She belongs with the catamarans under $100k — and, unusually for that shelf, she was drawn to be fast.

The plainest cross-check is the 1995 Fountaine Pajot Athena 38 at Saint Augustine — the same $95,000 in a production boat with a fleet behind it:

The design's history points the other way: the Ocean Cheetah was drawn to answer the Prouts, and the shelf holds that very boat — a 1985 Prout Snowgoose 37 at Luperon, $56,000 less:

And if 1998 feels old, the 2013 Gemini Legacy 35 at Green Cove Springs is fifteen years newer for $44,990 more:

But only one other Ocean Cheetah exists anywhere; if the rare fast cruiser is the point, this is the one to survey first: