Wauquiez Pilot Saloon 47 Buyer's Guide
Shopping the brokerage market for a Wauquiez Pilot Saloon 47 means looking at a Berret/Racoupeau pilothouse cruiser launched as the larger sibling to the turn-of-the-century Pilot Salon 40, with production running from 2006 and the model built through 2012. The boat's aft-cockpit layout, raised saloon, and dual steering stations define its used-market character, and the available inventory reflects both private and ex-charter histories.
Layouts on the Used Market
Owner three-cabin layouts are the more common on the used market, but both are available; ex-charter examples are common. The standard arrangement places three cabins and two heads below, easily accommodating six, with a dinette in the raised saloon that has seating on three sides and is well lit by windows and hatches overhead. The nav station sits on the port side of the saloon across from the dinette, a configuration that keeps the whole crew involved with navigation decisions regardless of whether the boat spent its early years under private or charter use.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
On the used market, these boats commonly carry electric winches, lithium batteries, a bow thruster, an asymmetric spinnaker, a watermaker, an inverter, solar, a bimini, a dodger, teak decks, an autopilot, a life raft, a spinnaker, heating, dinghy davits, radar, and circumnavigation outfitting. They often carry a freezer, swim platform, and chartplotter as well. Wind generators, cockpit showers, and Starlink appear as less common owner upgrades rather than standard or frequent fittings. The composite arch overhead that gets the mainsheet out of the cockpit remains a defining deck feature across the range.
What to Inspect
The available authority reviews for the Pilot Saloon 47 document design intent, dimensions, and accommodation rather than post-delivery defects, so the published record provides no cited known issues to target during survey. Buyers should commission a standard marine survey and haulout rather than rely on a documented problem list, since no recurrent structural or systems failures are enumerated in the reviewed sources for this model.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
These yachts typically appear in the Seychelles, France, Slovenia, Italy, Germany, and Hong Kong. For a shopper, the practical checklist is straightforward:
- Confirm whether the boat is an owner three-cabin layout or the less common alternative, and note ex-charter history where present
- Verify the keel configuration: standard lead bulb draws seven feet nine inches, shallow draft option saves 22 inches
- Check for commonly fitted equipment (bow thruster, lithium, watermaker, autopilot) and treat wind generator or Starlink as owner upgrades
- Commission a full survey, since no documented known issues guide the inspection
- Consider typical markets when planning viewings, as availability clusters in those regions
Price & volume trends
Monthly asking-price and listing-volume trends for the Wauquiez Pilot Saloon 47. The line shows the median ask each month; the bars show how many listings appeared.
Monthly breakdown · 7 rows
| Month | Listings | Median ask | Δ vs. last mo. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25 | 1 | $ 291,013 | — |
| Apr 25 | 1 | $ 302,425 | +3.9% |
| Aug 25 | 1 | $ 200,000 | -33.9% |
| Oct 25 | 7 | $ 395,000 | +97.5% |
| Nov 25 | 1 | $ 273,894 | -30.7% |
| Jan 26 | 4 | $ 354,196 | +29.3% |
| Apr 26 | 5 | $ 395,000 | +11.5% |
Where they're listed
Wauquiez Pilot Saloon 47 listings appear across 8 countries. Seychelles has the most listings with 7 (41.2%), followed by Germany and France.
Country view
17 listings · 8 countries| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seychelles | $ 395,000 | 7 | 0 | 41.2% |
| Germany | $ 481,104 | 2 | 0 | 11.8% |
| France | $ 310,761 | 2 | 0 | 11.8% |
| Italy | $ 273,877 | 2 | 0 | 11.8% |
| Hong Kong | $ 200,000 | 1 | 0 | 5.9% |
| Thailand | $ 425,000 | 1 | 0 | 5.9% |
| United States | $ 395,000 | 1 | 0 | 5.9% |
| British Virgin Islands | $ 395,000 | 1 | 1 | 5.9% |
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