Meta Damien II Buyer's Guide
On the brokerage market the Damien II from Meta is a 50-foot steel staysail schooner to Michel Joubert’s voyaging design, finished by its first owners after leaving the META yard at Tarare. These are not production-line cruisers but voyager hulls, and the used fleet reflects that origin: owner three-cabin layouts are more common, though both configurations appear, and ex-charter examples are a familiar sight among available boats.
Layouts on the Used Market
Most Damien IIs offered today show owner-designed three-cabin interiors, with ex-charter hulls also common. Because the boats were sold for completion by the owner, finished accommodation ranges widely, but the structural shell and systems core stay consistent. A typical documented interior pairs a forward woodstove with a pilothouse diesel heater and a galley built around a two-burner propane stove with fresh and salt-water foot pumps, though some refrigeration was removed in favor of drawer storage.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
For a buyer, the consequential systems are energy and heat. The house bank is built from three pairs of 12-volt deep-cycle Group 27 batteries giving about 300 amp-hours at 24 volts, while the engine uses two or three parallel 12-volt cells. A 24-volt Lofrans Falkon anchor winch and a separate 24-volt centerboard winch show the heavy ground-tackle and board handling these hulls need. Heat comes from a Dickinson Lofoten pilothouse heater with a barometric damper and a forward woodstove, both with tall stacks; some boats carry a smaller Sig Marine 120 heater that owners found inadequate for winter. High 95 cm liferails and a Lofrans winch are the kind of safety and handling equipment to confirm on any candidate.
What to Inspect
The heaters on these boats are not set up to operate while sailing except in very light wind, with chimneys normally removed and pipes capped before departure anchor, so check the stack fittings and caps for corrosion or improvised fixes. Also verify any refrigeration deletion: one documented boat had a refrigerator that never worked well and was replaced with drawers anchor, meaning a survey should confirm what cooling—if any—remains. Inspect the welded clinker steel hull for interior weld corrosion given the yard’s overlap arrangement, and confirm the centerboard winch and lifting-keel ballast operation.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
The used Damien II market is centered in Italy. For a shopper, the short list is: confirm the owner completion standard and three-cabin layout, test the 24-volt anchor and centerboard winches, check heater stack caps and any removed refrigeration, and budget for an expedition-minded hull rather than a finished production yacht.
Price & volume trends
Monthly asking-price and listing-volume trends for the Meta Damien II. The line shows the median ask each month; the bars show how many listings appeared.
Monthly breakdown · 1 row
| Month | Listings | Median ask | Δ vs. last mo. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26 | 1 | $83,817 | — |
Where they're listed
Meta Damien II listings appear across 1 country. Italy has the most listings with 1.
Country view
1 listings · 1 country| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Italy | $83,817 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
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