1992 Solaris Catamarans Sunstar 32 — West Palm Beach, Florida

A 1992 Solaris Sunstar 32 at West Palm Beach, asking $87,500 through yachtsite.com. English boat, French drawing: Solaris Catamarans built the Sunstar in the UK to a hull by Erik Lerouge, a multihull designer since the mid-1970s known for low displacement and low windage. The signature is in the proportions — 31.07 ft of hull carrying 17.03 ft of beam, better than half the length in width, three doubles spread across two slim hulls, and a class displacement published at about 3.8 tonnes. That is light for a three-cabin cruising cat drawn as a couple's boat, not a charter platform.

What our file does not hold: no condition note, no survey, no days-on-market, nothing on kit or engine hours. One broker. Treat the equipment question as open — and there is no sister Sunstar in our comparable set, so the ask has to be argued across models.

It does not argue well. $87,500 is a firm number for thirty-one feet, and the boats sitting nearest it in money are five to seven feet longer. You are paying for beam, rarity in the American market and a designer's name; the survey has to earn the rest. It belongs at the top end of the catamarans under $100k shelf, not the middle.

Start with the arithmetic that hurts. The 1997 Gemini 105Mc at Kemah is 33.5 ft to the Sunstar's 31, five years newer, and $37,600 cheaper:

For $7,500 over this ask, the 1995 Fountaine Pajot Athena 38 lies up the same coast at Saint Augustine with seven more feet of boat:

And where the instinct runs the other way — heavier, further offshore, more pedigree — the 1998 Prout 38 at Diego Martin, Trinidad asks $126,873:

If it is the Lerouge hull you want, this is the one to survey first: