Fountaine Pajot Helia 44vsLagoon 40
Fountaine Pajot against Lagoon · used asking prices, listed in Europe and the US
At the same age, the Lagoon 40 asks 37% less than the Fountaine Pajot Helia 44; on the headline Gauge Values it asks 13% less, which mixes ages: its boats are younger (median build year 2021 against 2015). The Fountaine Pajot Helia 44 holds its value better (4.3% a year of age, against 5.3%).
same age · 4 shared build years · 11 and 11 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 4 years both have boats in. Pooled across those years (11 and 11 boats), the Lagoon 40 asks 37% less than the Fountaine Pajot Helia 44.
What your budget buys
At £330,000 your money buys 9 years newer in the Lagoon 40: a 2021 against a 2012.
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 Fountaine Pajot Helia 44 or the Lagoon 40?
At the same age the Lagoon 40 is cheaper: the Lagoon 40 asks 37% less than the Fountaine Pajot Helia 44 across 4 shared build years. Their Gauge Values, the median asking prices of all the boats we observed whatever their age, are £348,000 and £303,000.
Which holds its value better?
The Fountaine Pajot Helia 44: it loses about 4.3% of its asking price a year of age, against 5.3% for the Lagoon 40. Both rates come from each model's published depreciation curve.
Which spends less time on the market?
Boats of the Fountaine Pajot Helia 44 had been listed a median of 226 days when we last saw them, against 54 days for the Lagoon 40. That is time listed so far, not time to sell, which we don't measure yet. 35% of the Fountaine Pajot Helia 44 boats we saw 14 or more days apart cut their asking price, against 54% of the Lagoon 40 boats.
How do you compare them like for like?
We compare boats of the same build year. For each of the 4 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 11 boats in those years. The Gauge Values compare the whole fleets instead, so they mix boats of different ages.