Atlantic 57 Catamaran Buyer's Guide
Shopping the brokerage market for an Atlantic 57 Catamaran means looking at a small, purpose-built class of Chris White–designed performance cruisers, eleven of them built, whose forward-cockpit layout and uncompromised hull lines set them apart from the charter herd. Most used examples trace to charter service with four-cabin interiors, though private two-cabin layouts exist. Knowing what was standard and what wears out is the difference between a trophy and a project.
Layouts on the Used Market
Charter four-cabin arrangements are the more common on the used market, but both layouts are available, and ex-charter examples are common. The design's native plan gives identical amidships master cabins in each hull with a private head and vanity, plus aft double berths with dresser and hanging locker. The starboard hull's long galley and the port hull's workshop mirror each other, and the bridgedeck saloon with inside steering ties to the forward sail-handling cockpit. A buyer comparing an ex-charter boat to a private one should expect the charter unit to show more cabin-count wear but the same structural bones.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
On the used market these boats commonly carry a furling main, teak decks, air conditioning, heating, a freezer, autopilot, and a life raft as delivered or refit equipment. Beyond those, the consequential systems for a cruising buyer are the power and water plants: a Fischer Panda genset, a Spectra watermaker, and a 920-amp-hour bank on split 12- and 24-volt circuits with 220-volt Mediterranean shore power let an owner stay off-grid. The forward cockpit and Harken electric winches mean sail handling is short-handed friendly, and the full nav suite plus inside steering station matter in long passages. Teak decks and air conditioning are comfort items that signal how the boat was spec'd for warm-water charter.
What to Inspect
An owner report from a Canaries-to-Caicos crossing records the A3 blowing out after eight days blowing out the A3 after 8 days. Inspect any asymmetric or cruising spinnaker for UV and seam age accordingly. The build—epoxy triaxial E-glass with Core-Cell and AirLite foams, carbon crossbeam flanges, and belly fins for grounding protection—lets survey effort belong on rigging, the daggerboard trunks, and the teak decks common on used examples.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
These cats turn up in Greece and Croatia. For a buyer, the short list is: confirm the layout matches your privacy needs (charter four-cabin vs private two-cabin), verify the genset, watermaker, and battery bank are live, check the spinnaker and furling main for wear, and survey the teak decks and daggerboard trunks. A sound Atlantic 57 is a light, fast, genuinely offshore cat with more living space than a same-length monohull—worth the search in the eastern Med.
Price & volume trends
Monthly asking-price and listing-volume trends for the Atlantic 57 Catamaran. The line shows the median ask each month; the bars show how many listings appeared.
Monthly breakdown · 2 rows
| Month | Listings | Median ask | Δ vs. last mo. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 25 | 1 | $145,611 | — |
| Mar 26 | 1 | $87,367 | -40.0% |
Where they're listed
Atlantic 57 Catamaran listings appear across 1 country. Greece has the most listings with 2.
Country view
2 listings · 1 country| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greece | $116,489 | 2 | 0 | 100.0% |
Comparable models
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outremer 51 | 51.35' | $ 1,129,000 | 65 | 19 |
| Hylas 57 | 59.5' | $ 1,995,000 | 27 | 3 |
| Catana 58 | 62.34' | $ 660,000 | 13 | 2 |
| Catana 53 | 53.08' | $ 1,650,000 | 13 | 6 |
| Outremer 55-2 | 54.89' | $ 2,125,160 | 13 | 2 |
| Atlantic 57 CatamaranYou are here | — | $ 116,447 | 2 | 0 |