A third of June's EUR 1.03bn yacht market was one Feadship
Read the June number twice
Per BOAT International's BOATPro report of 6 July, the brokerage yacht market reached a total value of EUR 1.03 billion in June 2026, more than double the figure for June 2025. The engine of that month was a single transaction. The 99.95-metre Feadship Moonrise, delivered in 2020, changed hands against an asking price of EUR 325 million.
That one hull is roughly a third of the month's entire value. Take it out and June still lands near EUR 705 million, which on its own beats last June's full total. The recovery BOAT International called in its full-year 2025 report, a EUR 7.5 billion year it described as "one of the best performing years on record", is holding into mid-season, but for anyone selling below 30 metres the shape of the number matters more than its size.
What Moonrise actually proves
BOAT International confirmed the sale on 2 July. Henry Craven-Smith of Burgess acted for the seller and Bruce Brakenhoff of Edmiston for the buyer, with the last known asking price at EUR 325 million. She is a 2020 delivery from Feadship's De Vries Makkum facility, 3,945 GT, with room for 16 guests and a crew of 32, which places her at the most documented and most pedigreed end of the market.
The lesson transfers down the size ladder. Moonrise sold against her asking price because that price already agreed with her evidence, and at 28 metres the evidence is the same in kind if not in scale. Survey status, refit records, engine hours and honest comparables set the number a buyer will actually meet.
Pricing a 24-30m now
The mid-year picture hands a seller in this bracket two usable facts. The market is absorbing clearly more tonnage than a year ago even with Moonrise excluded, and capital at the very top is moving again, which tends to loosen decision-making further down the ladder. Neither fact supports an aspirational ask.
Price against sold comparables in your own length and age band, not against a EUR 1.03 billion headline built on one Feadship. Have the refit file and class records ready before the listing goes live, because the buyers this market is producing move quickly on boats with clean paper. The window is open, and it rewards sellers who price like they intend to sell.