What Is Your
Boat Worth?

Short answer. Your boat is worth what comparable boats are asking today, adjusted for her hours, her condition and how long you are willing to wait. Across the 1,936 yachts listed for sale in the United States right now, a 40 to 49 foot boat asks a median of $422,000 and a 130 foot and larger yacht asks a median of $8.9M.

The calculator above does this for your exact boat: it pulls the live comparables from the YATCO MLS, the same multiple listing service brokers work from, and sends you the range with every comparable it found. The tables below are the market those comparables come from, rebuilt every week. Figures are asking prices, not sold prices, as of October 2026.

Big boats sell faster than small ones. A 40 to 49 foot boat takes a median of 552 days. A 130 foot and larger yacht takes 348 days. There are fewer buyers at the top, but they are decided, they are represented, and they are not waiting for next season.

Age costs you twice. It takes the ask down and it takes the time up. Boats under five years old ask a median $2.82M and sit 293 days. Boats over thirty ask $299,000 and sit 621 days. Every year you wait is priced in by the market twice over.

The badge on the hull is a liquidity decision. Viking and Sunseeker ask almost the same money, a median $1.55M against $1.45M. One moves in 292 days. The other waits 1,010 days. Same ocean, same brokers, same buyers. A yard with a deep production series and a known service record clears; a thin series waits for the one buyer who wants exactly that boat.

The tables give you the market. Four things move your boat inside it, roughly in this order:

1. Engine hours against her age. Not hours on their own. A ten year old boat with 600 hours and a ten year old boat with 4,000 hours are different assets, and a survey will say so. Low hours on a sportfish matter more than on a displacement trawler built to run.

2. What you have already spent. Paint, stabilisers, a repower, new electronics, a recent haul-out with a clean report. Refit money does not come back dollar for dollar, but documented recent work is the difference between the top and the bottom of the band, because it moves the buyer's own survey risk.

3. Where she is lying. A boat in South Florida sees more qualified buyers in a month than a boat on a northern river sees in a season. It is not that she is worth less up there, it is that she takes longer, and time is the thing that eventually forces the price.

4. Equipment buyers actually ask for. Stabilisers at rest, a current tender, a working watermaker, Starlink, a warranty with time left on it. Buyers price the first year of ownership, not just the boat.

Every number on this page is an asking price. That is what is public, and it is what any calculator, book guide or website can see. It is not what boats close at.

The gap between asking and sold is the part that decides your result, and it is not published anywhere. It sits in broker sold databases and in the heads of the people who closed the deals. On a well-priced boat it is small. On a boat that has been listed for two years it is not, and by then the asking price has stopped meaning anything at all, which is exactly what those long median days in the tables above are telling you.

That is the one thing this page cannot give you, and it is why the free market analysis exists. Greg Gaus spent twenty years running boats and seven years inside Westport as an in-house broker, and has closed more than $90M from 35 to 164 feet. He runs the sold data on your model, not the asking data, and tells you what he would actually list her at.

Is there a free boat value calculator that uses real market data?

Yes, this one. Most free calculators return a modelled book average. This assistant pulls live comparables from the YATCO MLS, the multiple listing service brokers use, and sends you an asking-price band built from boats actually on the market today, with every comparable it found. Free, and it takes about two minutes.

What is my boat worth?

It is worth what comparable boats are asking today, adjusted for hours, condition and how long you are prepared to wait. Across the 1,936 yachts listed in the United States as of October 2026, the median ask runs from $422,000 for a 40 to 49 feet to $8.9M for a 130 feet and above. Put your boat into the calculator above and it will pull the comparables for your exact builder, size and year.

How long does it take to sell a yacht?

Longer than most owners expect, and it depends on size more than on price. Across the current US market the median listing has been on the market 552 days at 40 to 49 feet and 348 days at 130 feet and above. Bigger boats sell faster: there are fewer buyers but they are decided and represented.

How much value does a yacht lose each year?

Between 30 percent and 50 percent of asking, by decade, on boats 50 to 99 feet: a hull under five years old asks a median $2.82M, ten to nineteen years asks $1.29M, and over thirty asks $299,000. Age also costs time, from 293 days to 621 days on the market.

How accurate is a yacht value estimate?

A comparables band is the honest starting point: it shows what similar boats ask right now. The precise number depends on engine hours, service history, equipment and condition, which is why the band comes with a free full market analysis from Greg Gaus that adds closed sold data. Asking prices are not sold prices, and this is not a formal appraisal.

Why not just use NADA or a blue book value?

Book guides work for high-volume production boats and thin out above roughly 40 feet, where equipment and refit history dominate value. Above that size there are too few of any one model for an average to mean anything, and the equipment list is worth more than the hull.

Does it cost anything to have Greg value my yacht?

No. The calculator is free and the full market analysis is free, with no obligation to list. If you do list with Double G Yacht Sales, the brokerage commission is paid by the seller out of the closing, so there is nothing to pay upfront.