Catalina Yachts 38vsTartan 37
Catalina Yachts against Tartan · used asking prices, listed in the US
At the same age, the Tartan 37 asks 43% more than the Catalina Yachts 38. The Catalina Yachts 38 holds its value better (4.1% a year of age, against 5.1%).
same age · 6 shared build years · 16 and 22 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 (16 and 22 boats), the Tartan 37 asks 43% more than the Catalina Yachts 38.
What your budget buys
At £27,000 your money buys 9 years newer in the Catalina Yachts 38: a 1986 against a 1977.
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.
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 Catalina Yachts 38 or the Tartan 37?
At the same age the Catalina Yachts 38 is cheaper: the Tartan 37 asks 43% more than the Catalina Yachts 38 across 6 shared build years. Their Gauge Values, the median asking prices of all the boats we observed whatever their age, are £22,500 and £32,000.
Which holds its value better?
The Catalina Yachts 38: it loses about 4.1% of its asking price a year of age, against 5.1% for the Tartan 37. Both rates come from each model's published depreciation curve.
Which spends less time on the market?
Boats of the Catalina Yachts 38 had been listed a median of 113 days when we last saw them, against 165 days for the Tartan 37. That is time listed so far, not time to sell, which we don't measure yet. 57% of the Catalina Yachts 38 boats we saw 14 or more days apart cut their asking price, against 36% of the Tartan 37 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 16 boats in those years.