What is my boat worth?
Tell us the builder, the year, the length and the condition, and this gives you a range based on what comparable boats are actually being asked for right now. It shows you the listings it used, separates asking from likely selling price, and tells you plainly how wrong it can be.
Fill in the four fields. You get a range, the listings it came from, and an honest note on how wrong it can be.
What this is, and what it is not
It is built from current asking prices, harvested from the public listing pages of 191 brokerage websites. 221 of those listings fall inside the 25 to 50 foot band this tool covers. That makes it live market data rather than a book value, which is a genuine advantage: it reflects what is happening in the market this month.
It is not a survey, a valuation, or a substitute for either. It knows your boat’s builder, year, length and roughly what condition you say it is in. It does not know your engine hours, your service history, your electronics, or whether the boat has spent its life in salt water or fresh.
Why we publish the error rate
Most valuation tools give you one confident number. We tested this one by holding listings back from the fitting and checking the estimate against them: the typical miss is 20%, and 18% of the time it is out by more than half.
That is not a flattering number and we are showing it anyway, because you might price a boat on this. An owner who lists 20% high watches the boat sit for six months and picks up a stigma that costs more than the optimism was worth.
Asking price is not sale price
The two figures shown are different on purpose. Brokers who analyse sold data consistently report boats closing 6% to 18% below asking, averaging about 12%, and that spread tracks condition: a well-kept boat gives up less off the ask than a rough one.
So the upper figure is what to list at, and the lower one is what to expect in your account. If you need the boat gone quickly, the days-on-market data is worth reading first.
If the number matters
Get a survey, or ask a broker for a written opinion of value. Both cost money and both are worth it on a boat you are actually selling. The brokerage directories on this site list every firm in several cities, and nobody paid to be on them.
Something wrong here, or a builder missing from the list? Email hello@yacht-tour.com.
Frequently asked questions
How accurate is this?
The typical miss is about 20%, and roughly 18% of the time it is out by more than half. That is measured by holding listings back from the fitting and checking the estimate against them, not a figure we hope for. Use it to sanity-check a price, not to set one.
Why does it refuse some boats?
Because outside 25 to 50 feet the error roughly triples. We would rather tell you we do not know than hand you a confident number built on four listings. If your boat is outside the range, send it to us and we will look at it by hand.
Where does the data come from?
Current asking prices harvested from the public listing pages of 191 brokerage websites, 221 of which fall inside the size and price range this tool covers. It is live market data, not a book value.
Why show asking and selling separately?
Because they are different numbers and conflating them is how owners end up disappointed. Brokers who analyse sold data consistently report boats closing 6% to 18% below asking, averaging about 12%, with condition deciding where you land.
It does not ask about engine hours. Why not?
Because we do not have reliable hours data across enough listings to model it, and a field that changes nothing would be theatre. Hours and service history are the next biggest value drivers after size and age, so a real valuation needs them. This is a starting point, not a survey.
Is this the same as a NADA or J.D. Power value?
No. Those are book values built from sold-price data the industry subscribes to. This is built from what comparable boats are being asked for on the open market right now. The two answer different questions and it is worth having both.