Motor Yachts for Sale in Fort Lauderdale & South Florida

Aspire Yacht Sales lists 329 motor yachts for sale in Florida, from sixty feet to a hundred and forty. As an IYBA member brokerage based in Fort Lauderdale, we can show you any vessel listed in the MLS, not only our own listings, and represent you as the buyer through survey, sea trial and closing.

Everything below is fifteen years old or newer. Prices are as listed by the selling broker and change frequently.

Motor yachts from $300,000 to $1.5 million

Motor yachts from $1.5 million to $5 million

Motor yachts $5 million and above

How we compare boats

When we shortlist vessels for a client, three things drive the comparison before anything else: the newest year available within the budget, the highest horsepower offered for that model, and the lowest engine hours for the age. Condition, refit history and where the boat is lying come next. It is a deliberately blunt first filter, and it is how several hundred candidates become a handful worth flying to see.

What counts as a motor yacht

Motor yacht is used loosely, and it costs buyers money. In the brokerage MLS it means a powerboat with full accommodation: separate staterooms, a proper galley, and crew or guest quarters on larger examples. It is not the same as three boats it is routinely confused with. A sportfish yacht is built around fishing, with a cockpit, a tower, and the speed to reach the fish. An express cruiser has a single-level helm and open cockpit, usually under sixty feet, designed for day use with overnight capability. A flybridge yacht is a motor yacht with a second helm station above the main deck, and most motor yachts over fifty-five feet have one.

If you are comparing a sixty-two foot express cruiser against a sixty-two foot motor yacht on price alone, you are comparing two different boats. The motor yacht will carry more, sleep more and cruise further. The express will be faster and cost less to run.

What to look at before you make an offer

Engine hours relative to age and how the boat is used. There is no single normal. Larger yachts that run to the Caribbean, or up and down the coast from Fort Lauderdale, average two hundred to five hundred hours a year. Smaller vessels average roughly a hundred and fifty to two hundred. Lower hours for the age are better, and the market pays for them.

Where it has lived. A boat that has spent its life in South Florida has had year-round marine growth and UV, but also year-round use and maintenance. A freshwater boat has a better hull and worse systems. Ask for haul-out records, not just the survey.

Refit history against age. A 2008 hull with recent engines, electronics and interior is often a better buy than a 2016 boat that has been neglected. Deferred maintenance is the largest destroyer of value in this market, and a surveyor finds it quickly.

Draft, air draft and where the boat will live

Depth is less of a constraint in South Florida than buyers arriving from other markets expect. Marinas carry eight feet or more, the Intracoastal has excellent navigational depth, and canals behind private homes typically run six to eight. A seventy-five foot motor yacht drawing five and a half feet is not generally restricted here.

Air draft is not a limiting factor either. The bridges on the New River are drawbridges and open on request, so height does not restrict what you can bring up the river. There are shallower pockets, though, so it is worth confirming the depth at a specific dock rather than assuming it either way. That is a question we can answer for any address before you commit.

What it costs to run

Budget roughly ten percent of purchase price annually, all in. Dockage runs twenty-five to seventy-five dollars per linear foot per month. A full-time captain runs roughly twelve hundred dollars per foot of length per year. Bottom cleaning is four dollars eighty to six dollars fifty per foot, monthly, and exterior washing four dollars forty to six dollars sixty-seven per foot. Insurance runs one to three percent of insured value annually.

Crew is the step change. Under fifty feet, many owners run the boat themselves. From fifty to seventy feet a captain-only arrangement is typical. From seventy to a hundred feet the minimum is a captain and a mate. Above a hundred feet the crew expands further. We would rather have that conversation before you make an offer than after.

Why buy in Fort Lauderdale

More brokerage inventory changes hands here than anywhere else in the world, which matters in two directions: you have more to choose from, and you have real comparables when it comes to price. The yard capacity is here, the surveyors are here, and the Bahamas are a morning’s run. It also means a boat listed elsewhere can usually be brought here for survey and sea trial without much friction. We do that regularly.

Frequently asked questions

How much does a motor yacht cost? Our Florida inventory in this range runs from three hundred thousand dollars for a well-kept sixty-footer to over twenty million for a new-build hundred-and-twenty-plus. Length is the largest single price driver, followed by refit condition and engine hours.

What size motor yacht needs professional crew? Under about fifty feet, many owners run the boat themselves. From fifty to seventy feet a captain-only arrangement is typical. From seventy to a hundred feet the minimum is a captain and a mate. Above a hundred feet the crew expands further, with first officers, chefs and interior crew. Your insurer will set its own requirements on top of this, so confirm them before you close.

How many engine hours is too many? There is no absolute number. Larger yachts in regular use average two hundred to five hundred hours a year, and smaller vessels a hundred and fifty to two hundred, so judge the total against the age and the cruising history rather than a fixed threshold. Lower hours for the age are better and they resell better.

How fast do motor yachts depreciate? Roughly five to ten percent in the first year and three to five percent annually after that, settling around fifty to sixty percent of original price by year ten. Boats with documented maintenance and a recent refit hold value considerably better than the average.

Can I see a boat that is not in Florida? Yes. We list from the same MLS as every IYBA brokerage, so we can show you any listed boat anywhere. The inventory above is filtered to Florida because that is where most of our clients want to keep the boat, not because it is all we can reach.