Our boats

the ask “Show me a real race boat I could actually afford — or the fastest cruiser built on racing bones.”

Racing sailboats — one question, answered from the whole market →

the ask “I fish. I have up to a hundred grand. What does each rung of that budget actually buy me in a center console?”

How much center console does $100k buy? — a Scout study →

the ask “Every affordable catamaran search I run ends at a Gemini. What am I actually choosing between?”

The Gemini question — why the affordable catamaran is always a Gemini →

the ask “Wake boats cost what now? Show me what the money actually buys on the used market.”

What $120k of wake boat looks like — a Scout study →

Trailerable trimarans → Boats that fold to road-legal width and tow behind the family car — every trailerable trimaran on the market with a verified file. The folded beam is from the design's own specification, not the seller's optimism. Bluewater sailboats → Boats built to cross oceans, on the used market right now — trimarans, catamarans and monohulls that carry an ocean-crossing pedigree, verified by Scout. Racing monohulls → Real race boats a private buyer can own — one-designs, Class40s and the cruiser-racers built on their bones, each with a verified file. The lane our racing study reads from. Folding trimarans that can cross an ocean → The rarest combination in sailing: boats that fold for the road and carry a genuine ocean pedigree. Two yards have proven it can be done; their boats hold value accordingly. Charter-size catamarans 40–46 ft → The size the charter industry standardized on — four cabins, level sailing, and the world's deepest used-cat market when the contract ends. Every file verified. Catamarans under $200k → The catamarans a private buyer can actually reach — every one under two hundred thousand dollars, with a verified file. Four yards account for most of what is out there at this money, and they are not the four you see in the charter brochures. Catamarans under $100k → The answer to the most-asked catamaran question there is. Under a hundred thousand the market is classic British yards, designer-drawn one-offs and the narrow-beam American Geminis — older, smaller, and genuinely reachable, every one with a verified file.

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Cabin cruisers under $50k → The most boat most families will ever own — galley, head, berths and a cockpit, at car money. The median asks $29,900 at twenty-nine feet; the maintenance history is the real purchase, and every file here is verified.

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Center consoles under $100k → The boat American saltwater fishing standardized on, in the band where the real market lives — median $58,422 at twenty-two feet. The service folder prices this shelf: documented hours beat garage-queen mystery every time.

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Bowriders under $50k → The volume centre of American boating: the open-bow runabout that tows the tube and comes home on its trailer. Median $29,900 at twenty-two feet — and on this shelf a newer 21-footer beats an older 26 every time.

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Pontoons under $50k → The most boat per dollar on any water: a fenced porch that floats, seats the whole family and still tows a tube. This money buys clean recent hulls from the big pontoon yards — the spread below is about layout and power, not age.

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Motoryachts $50k–$200k → Forty feet of accommodation for the price of a small apartment — aft-cabin cruisers, trawlers and express yachts from the decades when builders still fitted two staterooms. The money question here is upkeep, and every file below says what to check first.

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Wake & ski boats under $100k → The tow boat behind the family wakeboard habit, from ski-era inboards to ballasted surf hulls. Depreciation does the buyer a favor in this lane: last decade's flagship wave for a third of its launch price, hours and gelcoat told honestly.

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Trimarans under $100k → Where the trimaran stops being an exotic and becomes a decision: 330 boats worldwide, median $38,900 at twenty-seven feet — wind-speed sailing for less than the average used bowrider, every file verified.

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Liveaboard sailboats → From thirty-four feet, and for a lot less than rent: every sailboat that clears the liveaboard bar, verified. Median $89,000 at forty feet — monohulls spend it on an aft stateroom, catamarans on floor area and light. Monohulls under $100k → The deepest water in the used-boat market — thirty years of Beneteau, Hunter and Catalina production cruisers, laid out as a ladder from the eighties project to the mid-2000s deck saloon, so you can see what each rung of the budget buys. Bluewater trimarans → Trimarans with an offshore pedigree in the design itself — Category A hulls from 28 feet up, folding and fixed, from the small Danish boats that punch far above their length to the big French cruising trimarans. Cruising sailboats under $50k → Real cruising boats under fifty thousand dollars, every file verified. Today the shelf is led by folding trimarans — the boats whose files verify first — with the classic monohull cruisers joining as theirs complete.

2022 NEEL Trimarans NEEL 51 → $949,000 2025 Rapido Trimarans Rapido 40 → $784,080 2022 Mills Design Cape 31 → $177,800 2015 Quorning Boats Dragonfly 28 Touring → $129,600 2002 Pogo Structures Pogo 8.50 → $69,660 1999 Contour Yachts Contour 34 Sc → $65,000