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Oyster 72

€1.295.000

Description

SHANGRI-LA is an excellent example of one of Oyster’s most successful designs. She has just completed a Med and Caribbean tour for a family who found her to be a great home for a planned sabbatical. SHANGRI-LA is now offered for sale with children back at school and university. They found the Rob Humphreys hull delivered great performance with re-assuring sea-keeping. Her five-cabin layout allowed each member of the family their own space, the large saloon and centrally located galley provide a convivial and light-flooded area maximising the benefits of the raised saloon of Oyster’s sleek G5 design. Her cockpit and deck areas are spacious and work equally well at anchor or on passage. Her rig is powerful and enjoys the benefits of a carbon rig with head and staysail on Reckman furlers, and a park avenue boom for the fully battened main. Despite the high performance rig she is very manageable illustrated by the fact that during her last voyage – returning from the Caribbean - she was sailed by just the father and son without the need for crew.

Notable Features

  • Decks replaced in 2024

  • Standing rigging replaced in 2024

  • Carbon mast with carbon V-boom and Reckman furlers for headsails

  • Classic top quality Oyster interior in quarter sawn teak

  • White hull, booked for lifting, anti-fouling and polish early in 2026

  • Fabulous owners' suite aft with two more generous doubles and two twins with en-suite bathrooms except one twin which shares a good bathroom with the adjacent double cabin

  • Oyster G5 design with fabulous airy deck saloon and huge centrally located galley

  • Lead keel, skeg-hung rudder and water-tight bulkheads

  • EU VAT paid status and Spanish matriculation tax paid by her former owner

Specification

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2008

Barcelona

Dutch

22.77 metres

5.85 metres

2.90 metres

MANUFACTURER'S COMMENTS

‘The Oyster 72 was conceived from the outset to blend the live-aboard and seamanlike qualities of a typical Oyster within a design where high performance was of equal or greater priority. Modern composite engineering has produced a hull and deck that are both light and stiff, without compromising the strength, durability and ease of handling for which Oysters are well known.

The Oyster 72 has one of our sleekest deck and cockpit designs ever, with her rolled-edge side decks, transom stairwell and a host of ‘superyacht’ style features’.

‘The GRP hull incorporates a composite High Modulus Carbon Kevlar (HMCK) system. This is a ‘balanced laminate’ that has been designed to give excellent structural properties between the laminate layers. Advantages over standard GRP include weight savings, extra strength and stiffness.

The hull is reinforced with a matrix of structural stringers and floors and specially engineered by High Modulus’.


HULL CONSTRUCTION AND DECK LAYOUT

White hull with cove line and double boot top lines in blue.

She is booked to be lifted in January 2026, she will be anti-fouled and polished

High-performance bulb (HPB) external lead keel

Fully protected skeg-hung rudder

‘Sugar scoop’ stern design with large steps to bathing platform trimmed with teak

Built to comply with the requirements for RCD Category A – Ocean

The self-draining cockpit is split into separate areas for systems and relaxation

Excellent central walkway through between twin wheels

Twin carbon wheels mounted on cockpit pedestals which incorporate the controls and instruments

Gloss varnished teak-topped cockpit table with fold-down leaves which allows generous dining space at harbour and excellent bracing at sea and incorporates an insulated twin-compartment GRP refrigeration unit with double Frigomatic (keel-cooled) compressor.

Deck fittings are substantial and in high-grade stainless steel throughout. Grab rails, side gates, dicky-seats generous fairleads, pop-up cleats and fittings give a feeling and evidence of quality and security.

Midship gateway stanchions with stainless steel hinged boarding ladders, which close up to form the side-gates
Removable transom swimming ladder

Carbon ‘White’ passerelle with padded storage bag

Hot and cold freshwater deck shower in transom steps
Anchor freshwater deck wash pump in bow, including hose

A solid stainless steel rudder stock is bonded to the rudder

Stainless steel screw-in deck plate and stainless steel emergency tiller usable from on-deck
Hot and cold freshwater deck shower in transom steps
Anchor freshwater deck wash pump in bow
Stainless steel pulpit and pushpit
Fixed teak bow seat on bow and pulpit
8 x Versari concealed ‘pop up’ stainless steel mooring cleats
2 x Versari concealed ‘pop up’ fairleads
Stainless steel grab rails atop deck saloon coachroof
Stainless steel mast guards
Fuel and water tank deck fillers installed within recessed traps

Lazarette locker with twin stainless steel gas struts and internal lighting
Stern quarter pushpit seats in teak and stainless steel.
Antenna pole, transom mounted in clear coated carbon fibre, re-coated in black in 2024
Carbon fibre ensign staff

We are acting as brokers for the owner of the Vessel. The owner has provided details of the Vessel and her inventory and these details are based on that information. The accuracy of these details cannot be guaranteed nor do they constitute part of any contract. A prospective buyer is strongly advised to have the Vessel fully surveyed by a qualified marine surveyor and to verify the particulars prior to the survey.
The Vendor is not selling in the course of business unless otherwise stated. This Vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change or withdrawal without notice.

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