Yachts for Sale in Mauritius

Mauritius: The Indian Ocean's Crossroads

Yachts crossing from the Maldives, Chagos or Seychelles side commonly stop at Mauritius, Rodrigues and Reunion before rounding the Cape, with December to March the favoured season for that passage. A YachtWorld snapshot showed just 2 listed yachts here, priced $425,000 to $1,384,691 and averaging around $904,846, while a wider boats.com and DailyBoats view of general boat listings put the range at $55,890 to $2,021,847, with catamarans the most common type.

The offshore ship registration business, covered below, is a distinct commercial activity from this local sales and cruising market, and it is worth keeping the two separate in your own planning.

Grand Baie, La Balise and Port Louis: Where to Berth

La Balise Marina in Black River, on the island's west coast, was built to full international standard: secure berths, fuel and maintenance services, with restaurants, bars and shopping on site, and it is the closest thing Mauritius has to a full service facility including haul out. Grand Baie Marina, the island's main tourist and leisure hub on the north coast, holds around 50 berths for yachts up to 30 metres. Le Caudan Waterfront Marina in Port Louis, known locally as the Bassin des Chaloupes, adds 20 central harbour berths with electrical and water connections, showers and laundry, though depth varies 2 to 4 metres at low tide.

Crew and management enquiries often route through the same offshore registration service providers active here, OCRA, Trident Trust and Alliance, rather than a large standalone domestic refit industry. Our best marinas in Africa guide sets all three against the marinas of South Africa and Egypt.

Mauritius's Offshore Registry Versus a Straightforward Local Purchase

Mauritius is a recognised open registry: no restrictions on crew nationality, no work permit requirement for Mauritius flagged crew, and an exemption from tax on freight earnings for registered vessels. General guidance states there is no VAT or import duty on foreign flagged vessels under certain conditions, but the conditions themselves, the ownership and registration structure required, commercial versus private use, were not fully specified in our research, so confirm with a Mauritius based ship registration agent such as OCRA Marine, Trident Trust or Alliance Financial Services exactly which structure your yacht needs to qualify.

That offshore reputation is built mainly around commercially structured or corporately owned vessels, typically held through a Global Business Company, not a simple personal daysailer kept at Grand Baie. Check what actually applies to a straightforward, locally used private boat before assuming the headline tax benefits apply to you, and do not assume the same exemption covers VAT on a private purchase: that was not independently verified in our research either.

The register itself sits under a Director of Shipping or the relevant ministry, sources vary on the current exact name, alongside the Mauritius Ports Authority, which runs the Port Louis and Port Mathurin harbours separately from the registry function. Annual registration fees are described as transparent and predictable, though no specific figures were confirmed: get a current fee schedule from a registration agent directly.

Yacht Prices in Mauritius: What Your Budget Buys

The figures are 2026 asking ranges for used boats, and catamarans are the most common type in the wider market here.

The Fountaine Pajot Lucia 40 is a realistic alternative catamaran brand to Leopard or Lagoon in this specific market, with a meaningful secondhand presence in the Indian Ocean charter resale trade. Lagoon 42 catamarans, specifically, have been seen listed in the $200,000 to $500,000 band here, many of them ex Seychelles or Mauritius bareboat charter boats retiring into private hands. For a monohull suited to the offshore legs of an Indian Ocean crossing, a Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 490 carries a genuine watermaker and shoal draft option worth costing separately for this cruising ground.

How Buying Through Us Works in Mauritius

We start by asking whether you want a boat purely for local Grand Baie and Black River use, or one you also intend to use as a jumping off point for a wider Indian Ocean crossing, since that changes both the model we shortlist and the registration structure that makes sense.

From there we arrange viewings and a full survey, hull moisture test on any catamaran, watermaker and rigging condition for anything intended for offshore legs, then help you weigh a straightforward Mauritius registration against an offshore structure through OCRA, Trident Trust or Alliance, based on your actual ownership plan rather than a generic recommendation. See our yachts for sale hub page for the wider network, our yacht service in Mauritius page for maintenance once you own, our Mauritius overview for the wider lifestyle, and our sailing the Indian Ocean from Mauritius guide if a regional crossing is part of the plan.