Bavaria 40 CruiservsHanse 400
Bavaria against Hanse · used asking prices, listed in the UK and Europe
At the same age, the Hanse 400 asks 8.3% more than the Bavaria 40 Cruiser; on the headline Gauge Values it asks 13% more, which compares the whole fleets rather than boats of the same age. We can't yet say which holds its value better: the Hanse 400 has no published depreciation curve.
same age · 5 shared build years · 16 and 9 boats in them · Indicative · in today’s prices · asking, not sold
Head to head
The better figure on each line is in orange. Where either side has too few boats, we say so rather than pick a winner.
Year by year
Each build year's Gauge Estimate, for the 5 years both have boats in. Pooled across those years (16 and 9 boats), the Hanse 400 asks 8.3% more than the Bavaria 40 Cruiser.
What your budget buys
At £87,500, only the Bavaria 40 Cruiser has a build year within reach.
A year of ownership
Each at its Gauge Value, on a South Coast marina berth, 44 engine hours a year (the median of 103 UK-listed sailing boats that report hours). An estimate in pounds from published rates, not a quote.
Each line is the middle of the cited range, to the nearest fifty pounds. Depreciation is a year of age on each model's published curve, at its Gauge Value, and stays out of the totals.
The Hanse 400 has no published depreciation curve, so its depreciation is withheld.
The totals differ by less than the two berth bands do, so neither is marked cheaper to keep.
Sources: Lake Yard price list 2026 · BerthFinder · Boatsetter · Velos Insurance; Admiral Yacht Insurance · Boating Magazine, "Calculating Boat Fuel Consumption" · Littlehampton Marina fuel prices
Specification
Questions
Which is cheaper, the Bavaria 40 Cruiser or the Hanse 400?
At the same age the Bavaria 40 Cruiser is cheaper: the Hanse 400 asks 8.3% more than the Bavaria 40 Cruiser across 5 shared build years. Their Gauge Values, the median asking prices of all the boats we observed whatever their age, are £82,500 and £93,000.
Which holds its value better?
We can't say yet. The Bavaria 40 Cruiser loses about 4.5% of its asking price a year of age, but the Hanse 400 has no published depreciation curve: we fit one from at least 20 boats across six build years and publish it only when the fit holds. We have 11 Hanse 400 boats across 7 build years.
Which spends less time on the market?
Boats of the Bavaria 40 Cruiser had been listed a median of 1,444 days when we last saw them, against 751 days for the Hanse 400. That is time listed so far, not time to sell, which we don't measure yet. 15% of the Bavaria 40 Cruiser boats we saw 14 or more days apart cut their asking price, against 29% of the Hanse 400 boats.
How do you compare them like for like?
We compare boats of the same build year. For each of the 5 years both models have boats in, we take the ratio of their median asking prices in today's prices, then pool the years, giving more weight to years with more boats on both sides. The figure is Indicative because the thinner side has 9 boats in those years. The Gauge Values compare the whole fleets instead, so they mix boats of different ages.