Bavaria Cruiser 46vsBeneteau Oceanis 45
Bavaria against Beneteau · used asking prices, listed in Europe and the US
At the same age, the Beneteau Oceanis 45 asks 14% more than the Bavaria Cruiser 46; on the headline Gauge Values it asks 11% more, which compares the whole fleets rather than boats of the same age. The Beneteau Oceanis 45 holds its value better (3.7% a year of age, against 6.0%).
same age · 6 shared build years · 17 and 21 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 6 years both have boats in. Pooled across those years (17 and 21 boats), the Beneteau Oceanis 45 asks 14% more than the Bavaria Cruiser 46.
What your budget buys
At £155,000, only the Bavaria Cruiser 46 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.
Fuel is left out of both totals: for the Bavaria Cruiser 46, fewer than three of its listings give the engine power.
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 Cruiser 46 or the Beneteau Oceanis 45?
At the same age the Bavaria Cruiser 46 is cheaper: the Beneteau Oceanis 45 asks 14% more than the Bavaria Cruiser 46 across 6 shared build years. Their Gauge Values, the median asking prices of all the boats we observed whatever their age, are £148,500 and £165,500.
Which holds its value better?
The Beneteau Oceanis 45: it loses about 3.7% of its asking price a year of age, against 6.0% for the Bavaria Cruiser 46. Both rates come from each model's published depreciation curve.
Which spends less time on the market?
Boats of the Bavaria Cruiser 46 had been listed a median of 440 days when we last saw them, against 1,580 days for the Beneteau Oceanis 45. That is time listed so far, not time to sell, which we don't measure yet. 24% of the Bavaria Cruiser 46 boats we saw 14 or more days apart cut their asking price, against 41% of the Beneteau Oceanis 45 boats.
How do you compare them like for like?
We compare boats of the same build year. For each of the 6 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 17 boats in those years. The Gauge Values compare the whole fleets instead, so they mix boats of different ages.