Feeling 486 Buyer's Guide
Shopping the brokerage market for a Feeling 486 means looking at a 47.5-foot Gilles Vaton cruiser that Kirie built from 1994 onward, with ex-charter examples a common sight and both owner and charter layouts in circulation. The boat's 14.5-foot beam and eight-to-ten berth count make her a plausible family or fleet vessel, but the used buyer needs to separate the iron-keel from the lead-keel versions and read the equipment clusters for what they say about prior use.
Layouts on the Used Market
Charter four-cabin arrangements are the more common on the used market, though both owner and charter versions appear and ex-charter boats are common. The four-cabin charter layout leans on the 486's standing as more spacious than 85 percent of similar designs, turning that volume into separate sleeping compartments rather than an open owner plan. A buyer choosing between the two should weigh wear from fleet use against the simpler systems often found on privately owned boats.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
On the used market the 486 commonly carries a wind generator, solar panels, inverter, bimini, dodger, autopilot, chartplotter, and a short-handed sail-handling setup — a cluster that speaks to self-sufficient anchoring and reduced crew workload. A freezer is often seen, extending provisioning range for longer stays aboard. Less common but present as owner upgrades are electric winches, hot water, teak decks, cockpit shower, Starlink, and a life raft; the teak decks and cockpit shower in particular flag a boat worked in warmer cruising grounds.
What to Inspect
The 486 was built with different keel alternatives, so confirm which you are buying: the iron fin draws about 6.73–7.03 feet and the lead fin about 5.25–5.55 feet, and the lead-keel variant's shallower draft affects both marina access and resale. She was also delivered with different engine alternatives including a Yanmar 4JH2 rated to a calculated 7.4 knots, so verify the actual installation against the paperwork. The hull is solid fiberglass without a cored skin, and the ballast is lead at a 26 percent ratio — inspect the keel-hull joint for each variant, since the two keel types imply different structure at the mating line.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
Typical markets for the Feeling 486 are the British Virgin Islands and the United States, where both charter and owner layouts surface with regularity. For a buyer, the short list is: confirm keel type and draft, verify engine model against the different alternatives delivered, check for ex-charter wear in the four-cabin layout, and assess whether the commonly fitted power and canvas cluster matches your intended use.
Price & volume trends
Monthly asking-price and listing-volume trends for the Feeling 486. 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. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26 | 5 | $65,000 | — |
| Apr 26 | 6 | $65,000 | 0.0% |
Where they're listed
Feeling 486 listings appear across 2 countries. British Virgin Islands has the most listings with 5 (83.3%), followed by United States.
Country view
6 listings · 2 countries| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Virgin Islands | $65,000 | 5 | 0 | 83.3% |
| United States | $65,000 | 1 | 0 | 16.7% |
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