Oyster 53 Deck Saloon

DEIA is dry sailed out of Nanny Cay Marina in Tortola.  Spend your winter in the Caribbean now!

DEIA is the type of boat a buyer dreams of finding.  Her owner is fastidious, experienced and owns a boatyard.   The closer you look at this Oyster the more apparent her superb care and feeding become.  From mechanicals to sails, DEIA has been updated in all of the places that count.  The boat underwent a refit in 2022/23 and is in turn-key condition.  4 Cabin boats are extremely rare in this size range and DEIA is an ideal offshore cruiser for those with families or friends who prefer not to share bunks offshore. Owners' relocation prompts sale.   Highly recommended. 

• 4 Cabin Boat
• New Sails
• New Batteries
• Excellent Tankage
• Unparalleled visibility in the salon thanks to the raised sole for tanks and batteries
• Bow Thruster
• ICW Capable 
• New Electronics
• Recent rig inspection

Vessel Overview

With the Oyster 53 Deck Saloon, Rob Humphreys has designed the hull, deck, and rig, while Holman & Pye have designed the interior layout and provided the technical and structural specification. The Oyster in-house team have coordinated the styling and overall details of the yacht. As with the Oyster 56 they also integrated the ergonomically-designed cockpit, whose technical specification originated from the Department of Ergonomics at Loughborough University. The design brief for the Oyster 53 was to create a yacht in a center cockpit deck saloon configuration that offers many of the features of the larger Oyster 56, but still maintains a stylish, well-proportioned outboard profile. The design team approach, linked with the use of powerful integrated CAD design computers, has created a fifty-three foot yacht with a spacious cockpit, large saloon, and up to four separate sleeping cabins. Performance and handling under sail and power are well above average, gaining from the undoubted skill of Rob Humphreys whose Whitbread and World Championship winning race designs - not to mention the Chay Blyth fleet - have established his international reputation for safe, fast yachts. The Oyster 53 features a shapely, low center of gravity, and a bulb-type, lead ballast keel which has benefited from Rob Humphreys' extensive wind tunnel testing on foil designs during some of his better known race yacht projects. This keel gives optimum stability with only moderate draft. An optional shoal draft variant with an extended keel stub is also available. Although offered with a sloop rig as standard, we expect many owners to opt for the cutter sail plan for ease of sail handling when blue water sailing. Although the 53 is unusual in offering four sleeping cabins, there is also the obvious opportunity to forgo one of these and create a dedicated machinery room, in itself an unusual feature on a yacht of this size. The 53's 15-foot 3-inch beam has been fully utilized to create a really spacious and well-proportioned saloon which, thanks to the deck saloon, is light and airy. As usual the forward deck saloon windows will open to provide unbeatable fair weather ventilation. The designer's view by Rob Humphreys: Given that cruising is often perceived as the antithesis of racing, one might be forgiven for considering the expression "performance cruiser" to be a contradiction in terms. It is not. It is the concept embodied in the highly successful Oyster 56, launched to record-breaking sales, and in her smaller sister, the Oyster 53. It is about performance in its widest sense, not just speed through the water - which is there in demonstrable measure. It is about the contribution of every design element and characteristic, each one performing and contributing to the efficiency of the collective whole. Thus boathandling is also considered an essential part of the equation. Taking passage-making speed first, it is achieved not by costly and often disconcerting application of aerospace technology to the marine environment; it is achieved in full deference to the commonly stated Oyster owner's preference for a robust, even traditional, approach to structural design, with the designers working around this prerequisite. Not negotiable either, there is no change in the standard of comfort and lavish fit-out that befits the Oyster marque. It does not take a rocket scientist to work out that we are, by necessity, talking about a moderately high displacement:length regime. One cannot magic away displacement when that parameter is the definitive manifestation of onboard well-being, but one can take a different view as to how to arrange its distribution. This, essentially, is the step forward represented by the 56 and the 53. With very few exceptions, recent race-bred naval architectural know-how has been reserved for the lower end of the displacement - length spectrum. One of these exceptions has been my long standing and arguably obstinate desire to give my offshore racing yachts a dual-purpose role. Having worked consistently and successfully on the heavier side of the team, as evidenced by a great number of major championship winners, it enabled me to relate immediately to the philosophy promulgated successfully by Oyster over the past 25 years. The resulting product is a hull-form whose topside configuration reflects what goes on under the water, allowing the necessarily full-immersed volume to run seamlessly into a similarly full topside afterbody, encouraging the water to exit the hull with minimal disturbance and raising the speed potential of the boat beyond what has traditionally been termed the hull-speed hump. The fuller-form aft coincidentally produces increased form stability and, in flattening the wavetrain, improves directional stability by allowing the rudder to work more efficiently and by negating the effect of a suspending quarter wave. Images of a heavy displacement hull pushing its limit, almost hanging off its own quarter wave with a white-knuckled helmsman wondering where he's going to go next, can be put to one side. Of course, the naval architectural sculpting is achieved at no cost to aesthetic considerations, particularly bearing in mind that the eye of the beholder is itself an evolving eye, able and willing to keep step with visual developments. So, while this boat is recognizably an Oyster in all qualitative respects, the Oyster 53 moves the game forward in terms of contemporary styling.

Hull and Deck

• Single skin GRP lay up with structural stringers and floors to Lloyds approved standards 
• Teak laid decks, using quarter sawn planks and no visible fastenings, laid on epoxy.
  Planking is nibbed into the king plank and the decking is installed with margin boards around hatches, dorode vents, cabin sides and all major deck fittings.
  Side deck, forward and aft coachroof, cockpit seats, sole, and helm seat trimmed with laid teak.
  
  
• New boot top and cove stripe paint 2023
• Bottom paint (2 coats) 2023
• Deck is molded GRP with Oyster's trademark deck salon profile
• Sugar scoop transom with teak-trimmed swim platform
• Folding swim ladder
• Whitlock Lewmar wheel steering system and console pedestal
• Emergency tiller
• Fin keel with bulb externally attached lead ballast
• Glued down teak deck and varnished cap rail

• Lewmar opening deck hatchses

• Gebo opening hull ports

• Teak pushpit seats

• Cockpit shower

• Lazerette hatch with twin gas struts

• Simpson Series 7 electric dinghy davits

• Stainless Steel mooring and cockpit cleats

• Docklines and fenders

•  Stainless rubrail 2022 

• Underwater lights New 2022 

• Boat hook

  Canvas:

• Canvas bright work cover for cap rails

•  Isinglass back panel enclosure new 2022

Electrical

• 24 volt electrical ships supply
• Update electrical to connect in Europe 2023
• 100 feet 50amp Power Cable new 2022
• 2 solar panels mounted on davits with controllers new 2022
• Mass Sine inverter 24/1500 for computer and ice maker
• Mass Sine inverter 24/2500 for general 110 volt use
• 50 amp 240 volt shore power inlet, aft deck
• 240 volt/120 volt AC electrical system with volt and amp meters
• AC/DC electrical panels
• 120 volt outlets in each cabin
• Fans throughout the boat 2023
• GFI outlets in heads and galley
• Eight 6 volt AGM Lifeline batteries, 440 amps @ 24 volts New 2022
• Two 12 volt AGM starting batteries for main engine New 2022
• One 12 volt AGM starting battery for genset New 2022
• Two Mastervolt mass 24/100 60hz chargers new 2022
• Mastervolt Masterlink MICC inverter/charger control with battery monitor
• Xantrex Truecharge 2 TC4012 40amp 12V battery charger for engine/genset batteries
• MasterVolt DC to DC Charger for House & Engine banks new 2023
• LED lighting throughout

Deck Equipment

• Stainless Steel Ultra Anchor new 2022
• Stainless steel ultra Swivel new 2022
• 350' G4 chain new 2022
• Mantus Snubber new 2022
• Fortress FX 55 anchor on 25' chain/200 rode
• Lewmar Ocean 3 capstan type 24 volt windlass
• Lewmar opening deck hatchses
• Gebo opening hull ports
• Teak pushpit seats
• Deck shower
• Lazerette hatch with twin gas struts
• Simpson Series 7 electric dinghy davits
• Stainless Steel mooring and cockpit cleats
• 2 sets of Docklines and fenders
• Fender boards
• Boat hook
• POCO cockpit light 2023

Domestic Systems

• Fuel 206 gallons, GRP tank, with dip sticks and tank tender
• Water 175 gallons, GRP tank, with dip sticks and tank tender\
• Two gravity discharge holding tanks with Wema gauges
• 10.5 gallon Nautic water heater 2014
• Jabsco Dual Sensor Max water pressure system 2014
• Two Whale Gulper shower sump pumps 2015
• Flojet Quad II deck washdown pump with salt/fresh water selector
• Rule 2000 GPH automatic bilge pump
• Whale Gusher 10 MK3 manual bilge pump
• Wema holding tank monitors
• All pumps, grey water boxes and bilge pumps were inspected and replaced as needed 2023

Mechanical Systems

• Yanmar 4JH3HTE 4 cylinder diesel, 100HP
• Engine was fully inspected and serviced 2023
• New engine mounts and alignment 2022
• LED lights in engine bay 2022
• Aquadrive anti-vibration shaft coupler with remote greaser
• Maxprop 22" three-blade feathering prop
• New Cutlass bearing 2022
• PSS dripless shaft seal 2022
• Ambassador rope cutter
• Two Racor fuel filters with change-over system for engine and generator
• 12 volt 55 amp alternator for engine cranking battery
• 12 volt Electromax 175 amp alternator servicing the house battery bank
• Serpentine belt kit for main engine 2022
• Steipner tunnel bow thruster
• Master Cabin 16,000 BTU Cruisair Turbo air conditioning unit with SMX digital controls new 2022
• Forward Cabin 12,000 BTU Cruisair Turbo air condition unit wiht SMX digital control new 2022
• Henderson MKV double acting manual bilge pump
• Heyco tool kit
• Multiple spares
• Thrust bearing
• Walker WF5000 fuel separators for Yanmar and generator 2016
• Jabsco engine room blower with sound enclosure
• Westerbeke BTD 10kw generator, 3100 hours
• generator raw water pump, heat exchanger, injectors, sound insulation 2016
• Gas/water separators for both main engine and genset
• Stuffing box rebuilt 2019
• Cutlass bearing 2019

Sails and Rigging

• Quantum Hydranet Mainsail new 2022
• Quantum Hydranet Genoa new 2022
• Quantum Hydranet Staysail new 2022

Rigging

• Formula spar, double spreaders
• ICW compatible rig
• Main halyard winch and clutch
• Bamar - Electric Furler for Genoa 2023
• Harken MK3 genoa furler new 2022
• Harken staysail furler new 2022
• New backstay adjuster 2022
• Most running rigging new 2022
• Carbon wisker pole 50/50 new 2022
• Pad eyes for pole downhaul
• Spinaker gear, single pole, topping lift, downhaul and sheets
• Spinaker halyard and clutch
• Two Lewmar ST64 electric primaries
• One Lewmar ST48 electric main sheet winch
• Two Lewmar ST48 manual secondary winches
• Two Lewmar ST48 manual halyard winches
• Windex at masthead
• Deck light
• Tri color at the masthead with LED bulb
• Anchor light with LED bulb

Cockpit Features

• Teak and stainless steel cockpit table with cover
• Spray hood with opening window
• Binnacle console with handrail and drink holders
• 6" Sestrel Major compass
• Pedestal and wheel cover
• Dodger with Eisenglass 
• Bimini with side curtains
• Companionway steps refinished 2023

Galley

• Pots and pan storage lockers
• Avonite countertops
• Cutlery Drawers
• Oyster Wedgwood china and Sheffield cutlery
• Force 10 FT645PR four burner propane stove 2015
• New Water maker 33 GPH AC powered 2022
• Frigoboat air-cooled refrigeration system new 2023
• Frigoboat dual compressor freezer system with keel cooler 
• Dual stainless steel sinks
• Whale galley sump pump
• Sharp microwave oven
• Stow away trash bin
• Propane solenoid switch
• Magma Catalin propane BBQ Grill on stern rail
• Two 10lb aluminum propane tanks
• Raritan ice maker, filtered water in crews quarters

Aft Owner's Cabin

• Double berth off centerline with lee cloths
• Dressing table with large hanging locker
• Drawer storage
• Large Lewmar deck hatch with screen and sunshade
• LG TV 2023
• Hella fan
• AC controls
• New Air Con and pump 2023
• Weems and Plath clock
• Ensuite head to port 

Owners Head (Port Side)

• Raritan Elegance Head 2022
• Wash basin
• Separate shower stall
• Mirrored medicine cabinet
• Holding tank with deck pump out and gravity discharge

Entertainment Systems

• (2) Fusion Stereo with (6) Speakers and Amplifier 2022
• LG LCD TV in Main Salon 2022
• LG LCD TV in Owner's Stateroom 2022

Forward Stateroom

• AC controls
• New Air Con 2022
• Hella fan
• Seating to port
• Centerline double berth against water-tight bulkhead door
• Drawer storage under berth 
• Weems and Plath clock

Guest Stateroom (Starboard)

• Starboard side
• Hella Fan
• Upper and lower berths
• Lewmar hatch with blinds and screen
• Hanging locker, cabinet storage

Guest Head (Forward)

• Port side
• Raritan Elegance in both heads new 2022
• Shower
• Mirror, cabinet
• Holding tank with deck pump out and gravity discharge

Electronics new 2023

In 2022 the electronics were gutted and replaced with new B&G equipment by a top-notch Annapolis-based company.  Installation of new equipment looks factory installed.  

• Vesper wireless handleld VHF /Mul;func;on with wired VHF /Mul;func;on at helm with AIS
• Two (2) B&G Zeus 3sMul;func;on Displays. One at Nav. Sta;on, one at port companionway
• Simrad Autopilot.
• One (1) B&G Mul; Displayat Nav. Sta;on
• Three (3) B&G Mul; Display over companionway
  
• (2) Fusion Stereo with (6) Speakers and Amplifier
• LED Navigation Lights
• Starlink Disk
• PepeWave Wifi and 4G system new 2022

Safety Equipment

• Winslow 6 man life raft in valise, certified June 2025

• Life raft equipped with ACR PLB 350C 406mhz EPIRB, certified 2019

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  Eight life jackets 

• Jon Buoy MOM  mounted on stern rail serviced 2022

•  4 ABC fire extinguishers

• Automatic fire extinguisher system in engine compartment

• Flares

• Air horn

   

Dinghy and Outboard

• Achillies 10' Aluminum hull RIB 2022
• 20 Hp Tohatsu 4 stroke outboard 2022

Disclaimer

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.