7.8 m sailing yacht by Contessa · built 1966–2022 (boats seen)
Contessa
26 used price guide
Middle half £6,500€7,500$8,000 – £11,000€13,500$14,500
median asking price of 15 boats listed since Sep 2020, in today's prices · asking, not sold
7.80 mbeam 2.29 mfull specification
A used Contessa 26 asks a median of £7,000€8,000$9,000 across 15 boats listed since Sep 2020, in today's prices. Half sit between £6,500€7,500$8,000 and £11,000€13,500$14,500.
The field
Each number is one boat: its asking price in thousands of pounds, at today's market level, set above the year it was built. Tap a number to see the boat behind it. The price scale is logarithmic: each step up is the same percentage.
Your boat
Estimated from the boats above. No email, no broker call.
Likely range £6,000€7,000$7,500 – £10,000€12,000$13,000
12 comparable boats built 1966–1978 · hours not given · all markets · window widened to ±6 years · asking, not sold
Add your asking price to see where it sits among boats like yours.
By year built
Median from five boats; middle half from ten. Below that we print nothing rather than a guess. Linked years have their own page with that year's boats. The spread is drawn on the field's logarithmic scale, in pounds.
| Year | Boats | Median | Middle half | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | — | too few boats | |
| 1979–2021 | 0 | — | none listed | |
| 1978 | 2 | — | too few boats | |
| 1977 | 0 | — | none listed | |
| 1976 | 1 | — | too few boats | |
| 1975 | 1 | — | too few boats | |
| 1974 | 0 | — | none listed | |
| 1973 | 1 | — | too few boats | |
| 1972 | 1 | — | too few boats | |
| 1971 | 1 | — | too few boats | |
| 1970 | 0 | — | none listed | |
| 1969 | 3 | — | too few boats | |
| 1968 | 0 | — | none listed | |
| 1967 | 1 | — | too few boats | |
| 1966 | 1 | — | too few boats |
Too few boats to fit a depreciation rate yet. We fit one once 20 boats span six build years.
What moves the price
Each factor compares boats of the same age, so a newer boat's premium isn't counted twice. Five boats or more on each side, or we say so.
Too few boats to fit an age rate yet.
Too few boats to compare factors yet: we need five on each side of a split.
Asking prices, not sold. Factors can overlap, so treat these as a guide to what the market asks, not a formula.
Time to sell
days listed so far · withheld: fewer than five boats seen on two or more dates
share that have cut their asking price · withheld: fewer than five boats seen at least 14 days apart
median size of a cut · withheld: fewer than five cuts to measure
These are asking prices, and asking is not selling. Days listed so far is not time to sell: a boat still listed has not sold, and we do not yet record when a listing ends. We have not measured how far sale prices land below asking; the methodology says what we can and cannot measure.
Cost to keep
A year on a South Coast marina berth, insured at the Gauge Value, in pounds. An estimate from published rates, not a quote.
Fuel is not included: no cited source gives the engine hours a typical owner runs in a year.
Questions about the Contessa 26
How much is a used Contessa 26 worth?
The median asking price is £7,000, from 15 boats listed since Sep 2020, in today's prices; half sit between £6,500 and £11,000. For a specific boat, use Your boat above.
How fast does a Contessa 26 lose value?
Too few boats have been listed to fit a rate yet. We fit one once 20 boats span six build years.
Are these sold prices?
No. They are asking prices observed on public listings, restated at today's market level. We have not yet measured how far sale prices land below asking, so we do not publish a figure for it.
About the Contessa 26
The boats behind this page were built between 1966 and 2022 and have been listed since Sep 2020, most often in the UK market.
How we measure: we read public listings from brokers and marketplaces, count a boat once when it appears on several sites, store its asking price each time it changes, and restate older asking prices at today's market level. We never republish a listing, a photograph or a seller. Every figure is recomputed nightly and dated; below five boats we publish nothing. The 15 boats here were listed in the UK. Full methodology
- Length overall
- 7.80 mfrom listings · 12 boats
- Beam
- 2.29 mfrom listings · 5 boats
- Built
- 1966–2022from listings · 13 boats
- Type
- Sailing yachtour classification