Oyster 625

New to market - OYSTER 625 PAPILLON

Triple award winning 625 with seascape windows, sleek and powerful profile providing a attractive sheer and contemporary look and bespoke interior design.

Papillon is a very attractive yacht, great for cruising, whilst also being large enough to accommodate a professional crew either for private or charter use.

Versatile interior layout sleeps up to eight in four cabins, with further crew berths in the forepeak. The sumptuous owner’s stateroom is full width and has private access to the aft deck via a hatch.

A powerful sail plan ensures excellent performance, whilst she is easy to handle for a couple also.
Papillon is a truly versatile example, which has been sailed as a family cruiser in the Oyster regatta, but also more competitively as a Grand Prix racer, including the Caribbean 600, Round the island Race, where she obtained a class win, RORC series and also the Fastnet.

Launched in 2013, she has cruised Northern Europe, Mediterranean, the Caribbean and East Coast USA.

With a vast specification, including some superb performance upgrades, Papillon is a yacht for the connoisseur. Professionally crewed since launch and competitively priced. 

FULL SPECIFICATION

YEAR 2013
DESIGN Rob Humphreys Yacht Design/Oyster Design Group
RIG Sloop rig with fully battened mainsail
ACCOMMODATION Nine berths in five cabins
JOINERY Maple
TAX STATUS * EU VAT paid. US duty paid.

LOA 19.32m (63’5”)
LWL 17.23m (56’6”)
BEAM 5.44m (17’10”)
DRAFT 2.82m (9’3”)
DISPLACEMENT 33,500kg (73,854lb)
AIR DRAF T 27.20m (89’2”)
LYING New England, USA

BROKER’ S COMMENTS
New to market!
Triple award winning 625 with seascape windows, sleek and powerful profile providing a attractive sheer and contemporary look and bespoke interior design.

Papillon is a very attractive yacht, great for cruising, whilst also being large enough to accommodate a professional crew either for private or charter use.

Versatile interior layout sleeps up to eight in four cabins, with further crew berths in the forepeak. The sumptuous owner’s stateroom is full width and has private access to the aft deck via a hatch.

A powerful sail plan ensures excellent performance, whilst she is easy to handle for a couple also.

Papillon is a truly versatile example, which has been sailed as a family cruiser in the Oyster regatta, but also more competitively as a Grand Prix racer, including the Caribbean 600, Round the island Race, where she obtained a class win, RORC series and also the Fastnet.

Launched in 2013, she has cruised Northern Europe, Mediterranean, the Caribbean and East Coast USA.

With a vast specification, including some superb performance upgrades, Papillon is a yacht for the connoisseur. Professionally crewed since launch and competitively priced.

MANUFACTURER’ S COMMENTS
OUR AWARD-WINNING OCEAN-GOING SAILBOAT

Conceived to bring significant improvements to the already successful Oyster 61 and 62 ocean-going sailboats, the triple award- winning Oyster 625 is a sub 20m sailing yacht designed for easy family and friends sailing.

Building on what were already proven Oyster yachts, Humphreys Yacht Design devised an improved hull form to provide this ocean-going sailboat with increased performance and handling. Other enhancements included a sportier rig, increased space in the master cabin, and the choice of several interior arrangements, including the option for a forepeak layout to accommodate a full-time crew member if required.

The 625 offers spacious interiors for a sailing yacht below 20m, with generously proportioned galley, a full-beam owner’s suite, two en-suite cabins forward and a fourth cabin that could be configured as a workshop, a guest cabin, or a children’s cabin, with access from the master. During build, the option was given for direct aft-deck access from the master cabin via a sliding companionway.

In this design, particular emphasis was placed on outdoor living, with safe navigation and easy sailing facilitated by a large cockpit, flat aft deck and forward sundeck. Her design showcases a cleaner, more modern bulwark profile, with wide side decks and integral fittings for easy movement from bow to stern. The smoother, flush lines of her foredeck provide more deck space than the Oyster 62 ocean-going sailboat.

Below decks, the 625’s saloon houses what are now the Oyster’s signature triple ‘Seascape’ windows, with three vertical portlights set into the port and starboard sides of her hull, providing a new perspective of her cruising grounds and breathtaking views out over the water – a real superyacht feature.

With an overall length of just under 19.4m (63.5ft), the Oyster 625 has a displacement length ratio of 182 and a sail-area displacement ratio of 22.3 making her a true oceangoing sailboat that delivers outstanding performance and comfortable cruising in the 20m sailing yacht class.

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The items in italic highlight the non-standard items fitted during the build programme or added by the owner thereafter.

OWNERS ’ S COMMENTS
Papillon has proven to be a fantastic cruising and racing boat. We have thoroughly enjoyed cruising the Caribbean and New England and participating in the Oyster regattas in Palma and Antigua. We were fortunate enough to win the Oyster Cup as overall winners in Antigua in April this year.

We have had full time crew on board and they have done an excellent job at both maintaining and improving her as well as providing a superb service to us, our family and friends, and to the charter guests we have had on board, several of which are keen to return for a second vacation.

We are reluctantly selling Papillon as we plan to buy a larger Oyster ahead of the 2026 World Rally.

Owners of Papillon since 2022.

1 . CONSTRUCTION
HULL NUMBER Oyster 625/05.

HULL CONSTRUCTION Above the waterline: custom laminate incorporates high-tech foam cored, E-glass/ Carbon sandwich for added stiffness, strength and insulation.
Outer hull laminate in Vinylester and Polyester resin.
Below the waterline: single skin composite laminate with an Aramid/Kevlar layer, reinforced with a matrix of stringers and floors to Lloyd’s approved design specification.

HULL FINISH ‘White’ hull in NPG gel coat with cove line and double boot top lines in standard ‘Oyster Blue.’
New antifouling in Seahawk Tropical, plus new anodes (March 2023).
Repaint around the windows of the superstructure (Summer 2022).
Hull and superstructure polished (June 2023).

DECK CONSTRUCTION Moulded in GRP with balsa core for strength and insulation.

DECK FINISH Teak laid decks.
Teak deck deep cleaned and treaded (June 2023).
Modern ‘rolled edge’ bulwark with clean GRP finish.

KEEL High performance bulb (HPB) external lead keel.

RUDDER Fully protected skeg-hung rudder.
Rudder fully serviced, plus new lip seal casing and seal (June 2023).

STERN DESIGN ‘Sugar scoop’ stern design incorporating a recessed platform, which is useful for bathing and boarding and is trimmed with teak slats. This area includes a fold-down stainless steel bathing/boarding ladder with oval treads.
The platform is accessed via an integral stairway from the aft deck.

EURCD Built to comply with the requirements for Category A – Ocean.

CHARTER CODING Built to MCA Category 2 with all associated safety equipment fitted.