Latitude 46 sailboats for sale

Buying a used Latitude 46: know the boat is called something else

The single most useful thing to know before shopping for a used Latitude 46 is that you probably won't find one listed under that name. The yard built its sailboats as Tofinou — a name buyers are far more likely to encounter than "Latitude 46" itself. That naming gap isn't cosmetic: because the same yard also built a motor-launch line, Andréyale, under the Latitude 46 corporate name, a search on "Latitude 46" alone risks surfacing the wrong kind of boat entirely, or missing the Tofinou sailboat that's the actual point of interest. Confirming the model name, and cross-checking it against "Tofinou," is the first real step in shopping this brand, well before anything about condition or fit.

Which era to target

The Tofinou line's shape changed with its ownership. The originals trace to a single rediscovered dayboat hull — published accounts disagree on exactly when and by whom, but agree that one mould from that hull is the ancestor of the whole line. A 9.50-metre model launched in 2003, designed by Michel Joubert and Bernard Nivelt, found real export success in England, Italy, and Spain, and especially Switzerland. Under later owner Christian Iscovici, the lineup grew to include 8-, 12-, and 16-metre versions — sized well beyond the original dayboat concept, closer to a true cruising boat with the accommodations that implies. A buyer comparing a larger Tofinou to the smaller originals should expect a genuinely different ownership experience, not just a bigger version of the same boat. The design lineage changed hands again in 2016: after Michel Joubert's death, Michele Molino took over, pairing with Peugeot's automotive design team on the yard's most recent 9.7-metre model. A boat from that era reflects a different design hand than the Joubert-Nivelt originals, worth knowing if design pedigree matters to a buyer.

Navigating the lineup

A buyer shopping specifically for a "Tadorne" listed under this builder should know that published research turned up nothing to confirm it belongs here — the name never surfaces in the yard's own materials or in independent coverage of the brand. That's not the same as saying the boat doesn't exist or isn't genuine; it means this particular attribution can't be verified from outside sources, so checking the hull's own documentation and history matters more than usual before relying on the catalog label. More broadly, the full model directory on this page is the place to sort dayboat-era Tofinous from the larger Iscovici-era cruisers and the current line — treat the brand name on a listing as a starting point for research, not a settled answer about what the boat actually is.