What would a 43 DC cost today?

[sgharford]

My family have been asking me what they think my 1976 43DC with FB would go for these days brand new. I have twin Cummins VT903M’s at 400HP each and all new electronics. I figured around $800,000 but just a complete guestimate. Any ideas on what would be closer to reality?

I bought this old girl for $66k in December 07 and have been working hard to restore her – put 70 hours on engines so far – so good, no oil burn at all and oil has stayed clean, only 1300 hours on engines at time I bought her.

[Pascal]

if a Seamaxtonmerlinver 40/42 can go for .. 600k? i'd say with hatteras quality 800k would be in the ball park.

SeaRay re invented the wheel a few years ago with their 40ish "motoryacht", with what is just a classic DC layout in a Nike shoe/chlorox bottle shell. trouble is that even with more beam, they dont' offer more space... go figure that one...

[67hat34c]

800k plus, just look at what a new hinkley in the low 40' range cost and they dont even come close to the build cost of the Hatteras.

[SKYCHENEY]

A new 56MY Hatt costs just under $2M before options. So, I'd put a 43MY (if they made one now) at over $1M.

[Finalee]

My 2006 survey indicated replacement at $785,000.

[Genesis]

I would guess between $750k and $1m, but good luck finding something with that level of craftsmanship in a production boat built today.

The problem is that in the under-50-to-55ish category the cost of building 'em like Hatt does is prohibitive and nobody will buy them when put up against the floating condos, as "doing it right" results in a price 2x that of the competitors.

This penalty gets less severe in the larger vessels, and it is largely why Hatteras stopped building the smaller stuff.