Used Motoryachts $50k–$200k for sale

The band is $50,000 to $200,000, and both lines are there on purpose. Below fifty sits project-boat territory — hulls priced by what they need rather than what they are — and that is a different question with a different survey. Inside the band, the used market sells accommodation by the pound: two staterooms, two heads, a saloon and usually a flybridge, in forty-odd feet, for the deposit on a landlocked apartment. The catch never prints in the ad. At this age the asking price is only the first number; the real price is the second one — what the boat costs to keep — and the three shapes of this market differ less in what they give than in what they ask back.

The aft-cabin motoryacht is the liveaboard default: owner's stateroom aft with its own head, guest cabin forward with another, the saloon between them. The 1980s Taiwan yards — President among the better regarded — did it in hand-fitted teak; the American builders did it in cherry through the 1990s and priced the badge accordingly. It is the shape that keeps becoming somebody's address, because both bedrooms are real rooms with doors:

The express cruiser spends the same money on speed and sunshine instead: one level from helm to swim platform, berths tucked forward and under the cockpit behind curtains rather than doors, twin gasoline V8s good for twenty-five-plus knots and a fuel bill to match. Sea Ray's Sundancer made the floor plan a market default; Formula built the heavyweight version of the same idea. As a weekender the express is unbeatable; as a home it is a studio flat with a very good balcony:

The trawler is the slow bet. One diesel instead of two gasoline engines, walking pace instead of planing speed, and in exchange: fuel burn in single-digit gallons per hour, range measured in ocean legs, and machinery built to run for decades. The buyer who takes this trade has stopped asking how fast the boat goes and started asking how far:

Upkeep is where the decades bite, and it is predictable enough to budget. Teak decks are screwed down over cored decks, and forty-year-old bungs decide whether the core beneath is dry. Fuel tanks from the 1980s are commonly black iron and rust from the side you cannot see. Wood-cored stringers and decks read wet on a moisture meter long before they feel soft underfoot. On gasoline boats, manifolds and risers live on a replacement clock, and pushing ten-plus tons of house with twin big-blocks is a bill you budget like a second mortgage — which is precisely why so much thoroughbred footage sells at the bottom of this band. Diesels cost more to buy and less to own, and the market knows it; the upper rungs of the aft-cabin shape add a second helm and, on the right boat, diesel range for a whole coast:

So the honest answer to the question: the ask buys the address, the survey prices the work list, and the engine room sets the monthly bill. Read all three numbers and this band is the cheapest square footage with a water view that money buys. The wider fleet — sportfish, trawlers, express and everything between — lives on the powerboat shelf.