A 2019 Outremer 51 in Whangarei, and the Sold-or-Not Banner
A million-dollar listing that says both sold and available on the same page tells me the first repair on any used cat is a phone call.
There's a 2019 Outremer 51 called Duodecim on NG Yachting's site, lying in Whangarei, New Zealand, listed at $1,050,000. The page never says whether that's US or NZ dollars, and a notice at the top says the boat is sold or off the market while the FAQ underneath says she's still available. That contradiction is the first thing I'd settle, with a phone call, before spending a minute on anything else. I'm watching her anyway, because she's the closest thing I've found to the boat our plan is built around.
What's right: a three-cabin owner's version, about 25,000 nautical miles from Europe through the Caribbean, Panama and French Polynesia to New Zealand. That means the Pacific is already behind her and the first-year gremlins have been found by someone else. The rig is the part I like most. A Marechal Z-Spars aluminium mast with stainless rigging went in during 2023, and the shrouds and martingale were refit in 2025. Rigging is the line item I least want to inherit from a stranger, and here it's recent. She also carries a Hydranet Incidence sail inventory with a self-tacking jib, and the broker says a pre-sale survey is available.
What worries me: 1,230 hours across two 40 hp Volvos. For six years and 25,000 miles that isn't alarming, but the listing doesn't split the hours per engine, and I'd want both. The bigger gap is what the listing doesn't mention at all: solar, watermaker, generator, electronics. With four kids aboard, a watermaker isn't a nice-to-have. Until someone shows me one, I'd assume I'm buying it. My planning numbers, not quotes: $10,000 to $12,000 for a watermaker installed, and another $15,000 to $25,000 if the battery and solar setup needs bringing up to what a family of six would actually draw.
The currency question matters more than it looks. If those dollars were NZD, the price would be well under US$700,000, far too low for a 2019 Outremer 51, so I'm assuming USD. For comparison, a 2018 Outremer 51 on RightBoat in Port Camargue, France, shows $1,090,844, but the page says that figure is a currency conversion of the original asking price, so I wouldn't anchor on it. Its description calls her the lightest and leanest 51 the yard has built, which is worth a lot to me. Weight is what a boat with six people and a five-year stores list gives up first.
What I'd do with my own money: if Duodecim is really available and the price is USD, I wouldn't pay $1,050,000. I'd open at $975,000, subject to survey and a rig inspection, and expect to settle around $1,000,000 if the survey comes back clean. The gap is the gear I'd have to add. And I'd pay for the haul-out survey myself, with a surveyor who has looked at a lot of Outremers, not one the broker suggests.
The thing I can't answer from a listing is how a boat that's finished a Pacific crossing and then sat in New Zealand has aged. Sun on the canvas, the standing rigging's story before the 2023 refit, whatever got patched along the way. That's a survey question, and it's why I'd rather see her hauled than read another description. I'm tracking the numbers for this and other boats in the boat worksheet.