53'10' Oyster 53

Dont miss this rare opportunity to begin your world cruise from Alaska with the stylish and venerable Oyster 53.
Bellamare finished a 16-month cruise in August 2025 from New Zealand to Alaska and is ready for her next adventure abroad or extended stay in Alaska. Bellamare is a cutter rigged sloop with a fiberglass hull, center cockpit, teak interior joinery, three cabins, two heads, and a mechanics room as well as large focsle and lazzarette. She has a history of professional maintenance and upgrades and was refit in 2024 with a non-skid deck, all new standing rigging, topside coatings, bottom paint, canvas, interior upholstery, dripless seal, new staysail, and much more.
This high performance vessel has everything a couple or family need to cruise the world in confidence including 88HP Yanmar Diesel, B&G Zeus S3 chartplotters, supporting displays, autopilot, dual radar, AIS, SSB, Starlink, 24V electrical with 360AH capacity, 220V 2500W inverter, solar system, 8-person life raft, and the sought after OC rigid tender. She has most everything youd expect in a vessel of this pedigree including a genset, air-compressor, high volume water maker, forced air hydronic heating, bow thrusters, 200 gallon (800 liter) fuel and water tanks.
Located in Seward, Alaska. Registered in the USA.

Additional Specs:
Ballast: 6355kg (14,010lb)
Sail Area: 150% fore triangle 148.8m2 (1600 sq ft)
Main Engine Yanmar 4JH2-DTE 88 HP approx. 6000 Hours
Builder: Oyster Marine Ltd United Kingdom
Designer: Rob Humphreys & Oyster

SAILS: 2019 fully battened mainsail, Dacron with 5 battens, shelf foot and three rows of reefs (single line reefing operated from cockpit). 2024 staysail and spare staysail. NORTH SAILS New Genoa 2014 Genoa 150%- NorLam tri-radial with white UV stripes, Yankee NorLam tri-radial with UV stripes. Tri-radial spinnaker 1.5oz. Cruising chute (blister) 186m2. Squeezer. Stay-pack in charcoal with lazy-jacks.

MACHINERY: Yanmar 4JH2-DTBE diesel engine of 88HP. Halyard Marine HG200 exhaust alarm- engine/genset. New Racor filters fitted 2022 with a stainless steel drip tray. Changeover cocks to Racors so each can be used for engine or generator. 2019 installed aquadrive system. Maxprop 3-bladed feathering propeller. Ambassador AM15 rope-cutter on propeller shaft. Yanmar 80A 12V alternator and 2019 installed regulator wired to charge the domestic batteries. Sleipner 10HP tunnel bow thruster.
Westerbeke BT6 generator with water separator. Eumenia Sparmeister 800 washer/dryer in workshop. Webasto DW90 water heating system, 5 fan coil units with thermostat and timer. Frigomatic 24v water-cooled refrigeration unit to cool the front opening refrigerator. Frigomatic DC freezer unit in top-loading icebox. Frigomatic DC refrigeration, as back up, in refrigerator. Seafresh 204A water maker 22OV AC with water flow gauge and charcoal filter. 24V extractor fan and 24V lighting in engine room.
Main Engine hours 6000
Engine last service date February 2024 (4500 engine hours), with a check made in March 2025 to replace filters, tighten belts etc.
Generator Hours 1600
Generator last service date: February 2024

TANKAGE:Fuel 800 litres (211 US gallons) in GRP tank. Water 840 litres (222 US gallons) in GRP tank. Hot water from insulated tank heated by engine heat exchanger or the immersion heater element. Hot water tank replaced in 2024. Gravity discharge plastic toilet holding tanks, one for each toilet.

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