Power boats for sale

Power boats may be designed for diving, cruising, racing or fishing, for use on tidal estuaries, or long distance cruising, for day trips or living aboard. That encompasses everything from ten-foot runabouts costing a few hundred pounds to huge, fully-crewed megayachts costing hundreds of million.

For most leisure boaters, there are three primary powerboat hull forms to consider - displacement, semi-displacement and planing. Obviously the engine type and size is a key part of a power boat’s makeup. In the broadest terms, a marine engine comes either as an inboard or an outboard. In inboard form, it either sits right at the stern, operating through the transom by means of a sterndrive; it sits further forward and operates via a fixed shaft that exits through the bottom of the hull; or it is hooked up to pod drives - integrated steerable pods, comprising transmission, outdrive and props, which protrude directly through the hull.

Read more about powerboats, hull types, their engines and designs here.