The only 50‑foot yacht in America you can park in your driveway.

First, the arithmetic nobody does

A wet slip for a fifty-footer runs $1,500 to $3,900 a month depending on where you keep her. Add power, bottom cleaning, insurance.

Call it $25,000 to $45,000 a year. Every year. Whether you use the boat in August or never leave the dock.

Over five years, the slip costs more than the boat.

That is the real reason most people stop at thirty-five feet. Not the sticker price. The rent.

Because Don Shead drew a 50-foot hull only 10′8″ wide

Sunseeker built the Superhawk to cross the Mediterranean at forty knots, so they gave her the proportions of a knife — fifty feet two inches long on a ten-foot-eight beam, 22,100 pounds dry. Nearly every other boat this length is fifteen to seventeen feet wide and weighs twice as much.

Ten feet eight inches sits under the twelve-foot escort threshold in every state on the East Coast. Which means this one goes on a trailer — and not a theoretical one. A trailer built specifically for this hull, included in the price.

Now the part everyone worries about

The knock on a triple-sterndrive boat of this age is always the same: three engines, three drives, all of them old, all of them expensive. Fair. So here is exactly where this one stands.

All three outdrives rebuilt or replaced

This is the number-one fear with this hull and the most expensive item on the boat. Drives on any sterndrive head for a major rebuild somewhere around a thousand hours. Mine are already done — all three of them. That money is spent, and it was spent by me, not by you six months after you buy her.

MerCruiser drives, not a British orphan

This matters more than people realize. The single most expensive wear item on this boat is serviced by the largest dealer network in the country. You are not hunting a British specialist or waiting on a container from Poole. Any Mercury shop in America can put hands on it.

Two of the three engines aren't original

All three are Yanmar 6LPA-STP, 315 hp. Hours run roughly 400, 800 and 1,200 — current within about fifty hours. Only one of the three is the engine this boat left the factory with, and you should hear the story on both replacements from me rather than find them in the file later.

One was replaced in 2012, before I owned her. The receipt is in the book.

The other I replaced three years ago, and it was my fault for trusting the wrong shop. A mechanic pulled the injectors and left them out for over a month. Florida humidity got into the bores and rusted the pistons in place. That is a shop's mistake — nothing to do with the design, the installation, or how she was run. I could have spent a year arguing about it. Instead I put in a low-hour replacement and moved on.

For a boat built in 2000, that is not a normal drivetrain. It is a better one than most fifteen-year-old boats you are looking at.

Twenty-five years of receipts

I'm the third owner. I've had her five years, and I have every receipt for every piece of work ever done to this boat — all three owners, part hard copy and part digital — plus the original owner's manual and the factory system diagrams.

On a twenty-six-year-old boat, that file is the product. Everything else is fiberglass.

No punch list. No "the genset needs looking at," no "the AC blows warm," no "that gauge has never read right." Come aboard and turn on every switch — air conditioning, heat, water heater, windlass, bow thruster, autopilot, plotter, generator, both refrigerators, stereo, washdown. All of it. That is not a figure of speech, and it is not something most twenty-six-year-old boats survive.

Done in the last five years

New vinyl, canvas and paint. SeaDek flooring throughout. New air conditioning and heat. New water heater. New batteries and dual chargers. New bilge and head pumps. New Raymarine GPS, chartplotter and depth. Autopilot, automatic trim tabs, spotlight. New stereo, dash and gauges. Bottom coat. Bow thruster, windlass, freshwater washdown, second refrigerator. Diesel 7.5 kW generator.

Aboard

Raymarine E120 radar and chartplotter · Raymarine ST60+ depth · Robertson AP21 autopilot · Bennett trim tabs · bow thruster · Quick electric windlass · ACR RCL100 remote spotlight · Fusion stereo · six underwater lights · hydraulic engine hatch on struts · stainless propane grill · transom shower · freshwater washdown · Kuuma water heater · three CO detectors · 35 lb anchor on a stainless bow roller.

The paperwork is clean

Coast Guard documented, clean title in hand, no liens. Two prior condition-and-value surveys in the file, plus every insurance binder and closing document going back to the previous owners. There is nothing to untangle here — this sale can close as fast as your bank moves.

Nine of the ten for sale on Earth are in Europe

Sunseeker built roughly 250 Superhawk 48s across ten years, and most never left Europe. Look up what's on the market right now — Southampton, Antibes, Ibiza, Palma, Horten, Split, Werkendam. Asking prices run $101,000 to $208,000. The one in Norway is under contract.

Europeans know exactly what this boat is. There simply have never been enough of them in America for anyone here to find out.