Boats for Sale in South Carolina - By Owner

440 boats and yachts for sale by owner in South Carolina, priced $5,000 to $4,795,000 for 13 to 172 ft lengths, with the most listings in Charleston (107), Mount Pleasant (27), York (22), Johns Island (19), Summerville (15). Popular makes: Sea Hunt, Tidewater, Godfrey, Key West. Newest added 2026-09-05. No commission — every listing badged FSBO, Broker or Dealer.

Boating in South Carolina: Lowcountry Creeks, the Grand Strand, and Lake Country

Of the roughly 150 boats and yachts for sale by owner in South Carolina on YachtBazar today, the median asking price is $28,250. Fishing boats and center consoles together form the second-largest group behind general powerboats — 24 of the by-owner listings we classified by title keyword, ahead of sailboats (12) and cruisers. The make list on this page says the same thing and adds a home-state twist: two of the four most-listed brands — Sea Hunt and Scout — are built in South Carolina, in Columbia and Summerville respectively, alongside Yamaha and Carolina Skiff.

The water here splits into three worlds. The Lowcountry — Charleston Harbor at the meeting of the Ashley and Cooper rivers, with the Intracoastal Waterway threading behind the sea islands south to Beaufort and St. Helena — is tidal creek and marsh country, where big tide swings and shallow flats favor exactly the skiffs and center consoles that run all through the listings. The Grand Strand up the coast (Myrtle Beach, Murrells Inlet) fishes the open Atlantic. And inland, South Carolina is a lake state: the Santee Cooper lakes (Marion and Moultrie), Lake Murray outside Columbia, Lake Hartwell on the Georgia border and Lake Keowee in the Upstate keep fishing boats and family runabouts appearing in listings from towns nowhere near salt water.

Charleston, Turbeville, Mount Pleasant, St. Helena and North Charleston carry the most listings — four of those five sit in the Lowcountry. See the by-owner fishing boats for sale in South Carolina, boats priced $25,000 to $50,000 in South Carolina — the band the state's median asking price falls into — or South Carolina boat slips & docks if you need somewhere to keep what you buy.

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Frequently asked questions

Are these South Carolina boats for sale by owner?
Most South Carolina boats here are for sale by owner — free to list, no broker, no commission. Brokers and dealers are welcome too, and every listing is clearly badged FSBO, Broker or Dealer so you always know who you're dealing with.
How many boats are for sale in South Carolina?
There are currently 440 by-owner boats and yachts listed in South Carolina on YachtBazar.