DESCRIPTION

DREAM AGAIN II is a great example of the Oyster 53. She shows very well and has benefitted from a constant professional maintenance program. The safe, sea-going cockpit and easy-to-handle sail plan allow for extensive short-handed cruising. With incredibly spacious and comfortable accommodations there is plenty of room for family and friends in the VIP fwd cabin and starboard bunk cabin.

A handy workshop with a sea berth behind the nav station to port is ideal for passage making. She has low hours for her age and it shows in her condition.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Properly equipped for offshore cruising
• Standing rigging replaced   
• New roller furling headsail
• Roller Furling mast
• Upgraded B&G plotter
• Recent replacement of safety equipment
• New West Marine 10’ RIB
• Great bones

RECENT UPGRADES

• Evolution roller furling headsail
• West Marine 10’ RIB with 6 HP Yamaha outboard
• Updated AV systems
• Dan Buoy safety system
• AIS added
• New Raytheon Auto Pilot System
• New B&G plotter at the helm 

HULL, DECK & SUPERSTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION

• GRP hull is laid up single skin with structural stringers and floors to Lloyds approved design specification.
• Hull color white with cove line and double boot top lines in standard Oyster blue.
• The stern design incorporates a bathing platform trimmed with teak slats and stainless steel steps for access to the stern deck.
• Deck structure molded in GRP with balsa core.
• Teak laid decks.
• Oyster deck saloon profile with 'eyebrow' styling.
• Bulwark finished with a teak capping rail with stainless steel open fairleads.

Keel & Rudder:

• High-performance bulb keel.
• Fully protected skeg-hung rudder.

MACHINERY

Engine & Gearboxes:

• Yanmar 4JH3-HTBE, 4-cylinder diesel engine (100hp).
• Engine Hours: 4,387 (Sept 2024)
• Yanmar KM4A gearbox.
• Racor model 500 FG fuel filter and water separator.
• Standard service kit.
   

Propulsion & Steering:
 

• Whitlock cable system with a remote pedestal incorporating a 1065mm (42") stainless steel wheel.
• Wheel covered in brown suede leather.
• Rocker-type pedestal switches.
• Max-Prop 3-bladed 60cm (24") feathering propeller.
• Ambassador AM15 rope cutter on prop shaft.
• Sleipner 10hp tunnel bow thruster.

ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS

Voltage Systems:

• Ship's supply.
• 24V DC.
• Mains US 4 wire AC spec.
• Additional Clipsal 220v double socket at chart table.

Battery Banks:

• Bank of 8 x Sonenshein GF6 180V batteries.
• Pair of 12V 815A 50Ah Optima Redtop start batteries.
• 1 x 12V 815A S0Ah Optima Redtop for generator.

Battery Chargers:

• Mastervolt 150 Amp 24V alternator coupled with Mastervolt Alpha Pro regulator.
• Mastervolt 220V MASS 24/75 Charger including temp sensor.
• Mastervolt MICC unit controller.

Alternators:

• Yanmar alternator: SSA 12V for engine start battery.
• Mastervolt alternator :150A 24V for domestic battery bank with Mastervolt Alpha regulator.

Generator:

• Westerbeke STD 7.5 (7.5kW/220V/50Hz).
• Generator/Engine starting batteries "emergency" link.
• Fiddle on top of the genset box.
• Gen hours: 1,335 (Sept 2024).

Shore Power:

• 30A dockside power cable in 3-core double-insulated PVC, 18m in length.
• Hubbell socket in transom.
• Dockside end of cable fitted with 3-pin, 16 amp plug.

Other Electrical:

• 220V MASS Sine Inverter 24/2500.

PLUMBING SYSTEMS

Fresh Water & Water Heating System:

• Hot water from insulated 76 liter (16.7 imp / 20 US gallon) tanks heated by the engine's heat exchanger, or by thermostatically-controlled 220V, 2kW immersion heater elements powered from dockside power.
• Par CW 320 Twin Max Pump with pressure accumulator.

Watermaker:

• Seafresh 204A/220v AC watermaker (63 L/hr)
• Standard spares kit

Bilge Pumps:

• Jabsco Maxi 3000 Puppy with Par hydro air switch.
• Henderson MkV double action bilge pump operated from the cockpit.
• Whale Gulper Pumps (fore and aft} to evacuate the Greywater system.

TANKAGE

• Fuel: 850 liters (187 imp/224 US gallons) in a GRP tank.
• Water: 750 liters (165 imp/198 US gallons) in a GRP tank.
• Holding Tanks:  Polypropylene gravity emptying holding tank fore and aft, and tank tender system for both tanks.

NAVIGATION EQUIPMENT

• Customised around electronics and navigational instrumentation, flush mounted in a black, man-made leather fascia.
• The chart table fits half-folded Admiralty charts and a good-sized bookshelf outboard of this.
• AC and DC electrical panels are located aft of the navigator's seat.
• 2 extra blocks of 5 circuit breakers on panel.
• Compass(es).
• Multi ST60 - Speed, Depth and Wind.
• Extra Multi ST60 at pedestal.
• ST60 Close hauled.
• ST60 MFD.
• Extra Multi ST60 in aft cabin.
• RayNav 300, 12-Channel, GPS interfaced to the Autopilot.
• Raytheon RLB0 C PLUS radar/plotter - 4kw radome.
• RL70 C PLUS radar/plotter repeater under sprayhood, in Navpod.
• Raymarine Autohelm ST6001 + with 400G course computer and ST600R hand held control head for autopilot.
• Windex at VHF antennae at masthead.
• ICS Navtex 6 Plus incl. GPS interface & ANT-6 aerial.
• Raymarine Ray 230E Class D-DSC VHF radio-telephone with masthead antenna.
• lcom 802 transceivers with a dropper and AAX5 aerial on the mast.
• Copper strip for retrofit of SSB.
• Skanti iridium system / aerial removed.

DOMESTIC EQUIPMENT

Galley:

• The galley is located to starboard of the cockpit, in the companionway to the aft cabin.
• Avonite galley tops with upstands and stainless steel basin inserts.
• Locker with wire drawers on runners.
• Features twin stainless steel sinks, stowage is provided for crockery.
• A gimballed Force 10 FT60451 cooker in stainless steel, with 4 burners, a grill, and an oven.
• A front-opening refrigerator and nearby cool box and stainless steel combined 900W microwave/grill.
• Frigomatic 24V, water-cooled refrigeration unit for front-opening galley refrigerator.
• Frigomatic 50F twin compressor, Freezer system for galley cool box

Heads/Showers:

• 2 x WCs.

Heating & Ventilation:

• 2 x Cruisair units providing 16,000 BTUs

Entertainment:

• Pioneer DEH-P4500R with Pioneer 12 Disc CD Changer CDX-P1270 with speakers in the deck saloon and cockpit.
• Status Omni directional aerial at masthead TV and AM/FM.

Lighting (Interior):

• Halogen overhead lights.
• Cabin 'Glassline Minor' reading lights in chrome with ceramic shades.
• Flexible chart table light.
• Auto door lights to refrigeration and drinks locker.
• Swivel Halogen lights over mirrors in forward and aft cabins.
• Red Nightlights -1 in the galley, in overhead at the table.
• Engine room lighting.

Lighting (Exterior):

• Aqua Signal navigation lights.
• Steaming/deck floodlight.
• Tri-white LED anchor/navigation light at masthead.
• Spreader lights.
• Boom light over cockpit table.

ACCOMMODATION

Summary of Accommodation:

• Six berths in three cabins, excluding the saloon.
• Interior joinery finished in American White Oak with Oyster 'Millennium' styling. Designed to be modern and coordinated, whilst remaining practical and durable at sea. Essential features include: sculpted fiddles and grabrails, "shadow-gap" joints between panels, and Oyster custom knobs for lockers and drawers.
• Chequer-board veneered floor panels, with a perimeter inlay line.
• Surfaces in galley and heads in Avonite - colour 'Black Ice'.
• Headlining in off-white vinyl.
• Upholstery - saloon settees and navigator's seat in stone velour (new 2017).
• Lee cloths to all sea berths.
• Oceanair Skyscreens to all hatches.
• Heyco toolkit - large.
• Oyster stainless steel cutlery. 
• Oyster custom Wedgwood bone china crockery.

Hatches and Windows:

• Lewmar alloy-framed, silver-anodised deck hatches.
• Gebo alloy-framed po rtlights in coachroof sides.
• Custom alloy-framed deck saloon windows in toughened, smoked, 12mm glass - 2  forward windows open.
• Gebo opening portlights in cabins, WC's and galley.
• Gebo long opening hullports in saloon.
• Long Gebo Econoline Portlight inc flyscreen & curtain - 2 off.

Description of layout from forwards

Forward Double Cabin:

• Forward accommodation provides a spacious double cabin in the bows, with a centreline double berth, an upholstered seat with a vanity table, plentiful clothes lockers, and a hanging locker.
• Cabin mattress 2" latex laminate.
• The deck is accessible via the forehatch.
• Stainless Steel bookshelf.

Twin Cabin:

• To starboard with upper and lower berths, lockers for clothes, a vanity unit and a hanging locker.

Heads:

• To port, accessed from the passageway and shared by the forward cabins, incorporating Jabsco electric toilet, washbasin, and shower with curtain.
• Hansgrohe quality mixer taps and showers, together with matching towel rail, toothbrush holders, soap dispenser and mirror.

Owner's stateroom with ensuite heads

• The aft cabin is configured with a double berth offset from the centerline, a curved settee, a dressing table, and a large hanging locker, with abundant drawer and locker space.
• Cabin mattress 2" latex laminate.
• Headboard for a double berth.
• From this cabin there is access to the aft toilet and shower to starboard, also through to the galley to port.

SALOON

• To starboard features an oval table with burr wood inlay with a black perimeter line on the top face and settee area, outboard of which, are a pair of lockers and a central shelf to the hull port.
• Stitched panel seating.
• To port is a two-seater settee.
• The table incorporates a bottle locker in its base and opens to form a large dining table.
• The saloon is extremely light and airy, with seven windows of which two of the three forward ones open.
• There are also two opening hull portholes.
• A drinks locker is located at the forward port end of the saloon.
• Slatted blinds to portholes, bookshelf in Stainless steel, barometer, and wall clock.

DECK

Workshop:

• On the port side with a workbench and storage for tools.
• Bunk berth over the workbench with chest of draws.
• Large hinged doors provide superb access to the engine compartment.
• Hanging cupboard for clothing / wet gear, rail and hooks for life jackets and harnesses

Rig:

• Cutter rigged inc. ST secondaries Lewmar 48 CST, tracks, rigging, halyard, clutch, furler & furling staysail.
• Hood Stoway mainmast with in-mast electric furling.
• Electric drive for Stoway Mast.
• Harken backstay tensioner- 8503 - 12mm.
• Selden solid rod kicker/vang.
• Continuous stainless steel wire rigging for two spreader rigs; new standing rigging 06/19, new tensions, and rig overhaul.
• Webbing jackstays and shackles.
• "No strike" ion dissipaters at the masthead.
• Flute-stopper upgraded with passerelle halyard and stainless steel bar.
• Squeezer, size 3-c with GRP bucket.
• Harken Unit 3 headsail furling.
• Spinnaker gear package includes: Pole vertically stowed on mast with butt hoist winch, pole topping lift and fore guy, pair sheets. guy blocks and fittings.
• Block at masthead for spinnaker halyard.
• Spinnaker halyard and snap shackle.
• Spare Genoa Halyard.
• Snatch block size 3.

Winches:

• By Lewmar.
• 2 x Electric ST primary winches.
• #48 CEST self-tailing mainsheet winch.
• 2 x #48 CST two-speed self-tailing main and Genoa Halyard winches on mast.
• #44 CST self-tailing reefing line winch, for mainsail reefing, on mast beneath gooseneck.
• 2 x #16 CST two-speed, self-tailing mainsheet traveler control line winches.

Sails:

• Quantum Dacron cross-cut CW2000 main sail (2019).
• Tri radial design genoa in DCP Pentax, including Sialkot plus treatment, with Odyssey UV to leach and foot (2018).
• New genoa (2018).

General:

• Stainless steel pulpit, pushpit, and pair of gateway midship stanchions close up to form the side gates. Gate to pushpit.
• 3 x Pairs of stainless steel fairleads - fitted into bulwarks.
• Stainless steel guard rails over forward storage boxes.
• Stainless steel grabrails on cabin top. Stem head fitting with twin bronze rollers.
  Chainplate assemblies.
• Gas locker for 2 bottles.
• Large lazarette locker with twin stainless steel gas struts and scuba tank brackets.
• Quarter pushpit seats in stainless steel and teak.
• Cockpit table, SS frame/GRP box - Varnished
• Stainless steel mug rack and grabrail on a pedestal.
• Cockpit cushions with closed cell foam.
• Aft deck cushion in open cell foam.
• Hot & cold freshwater deck shower.
• Anchor deck wash pump in bow.
• Teak treads in two transom tread rungs.
• Hinged ladder on transom.
• Socket in transom for passerelle.
• Drop-down washboard.
• 2 x folding mast steps 1.2m from masthead.
• Docklines-15m long, 16mm Octoplait.
• 100m of 16mm Octoplait spliced onto 10m of 12mm chain.
• Preventer lines on boom in spectra 12mm.
• 2 x folding Wichards for halyard stowage on the side deck.
• Comprehensive inventory of assorted spare parts.

Anchoring & Mooring Equipment:

• Mooring and cockpit cleats in polished stainless steel.
• Forward anchor locker for chain stowage.
• 60m of 12mm calibrated galvanized chain.
• CQR 34kg (751b).
• Lewmar Ocean 3 vertical capstan, 24V anchor windlass. 
• Remote windlass control in the cockpit.
• Partition in bow locker - stowage for an additional anchor in bow locker.
• Fortress FX-55 spare anchor.
• 4 x Large fenders.

Covers, Canvas & Cushions:

• Large acrylic fold-down sprayhood over custom stainless steel hoops; windows new 2018.
• Stainless steel grab rail to aft hoop of sprayhood - leather cover to sprayhood grabrail.
• Bimini, with cover for stowage with window; windows new 2018.
• Wheel and pedestal cover.
• Cover for radar in cockpit.
• Foam backed mast cover; new 2019.
• Cockpit cushions.

Tender & Outboard:

• Zodiac RIB 3.10; in storage.
• Yamaha Fa CMHS 4-Stroke outboard.
• Simpson davits Model #225.
• Davit bellybands.

Safety Equipment:

• Liferaft.
• Eurovinil 8-person liferaft - to be serviced.
• Mc Murdo 406-GPS EPIRB.
• Firdell Slipper on mast.
• 6 x Ocean Safety Professional lifejackets - to be serviced.
• 6 x Crew Saver Safety harnesses.
• 2 x Double leather harnesses.
• Climbing harness / Bosuns chair.
• 406 EPIRB.
• SOS Grab bag.
• Felco wire cutters.

Fire-fighting equipment:

• Various including automatic fire extinguishers in the engine bay - to be serviced.
• Fire blanket.