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Oyster 56/35 SHAYA MOYA - A much acclaimed bluewater cruiser from the renown Humphreys stable. A serious sea-going yacht proven over many thousands of miles and with an established track record as one of the most successful yachts in Oyster’s history. Many live-aboard owners confirm that she is easily handled by just two crew members, but is spacious enough for six to eight people to cruise in comfort. The single wheel helm aft has winches close to hand, so she can be sailed short-handed if necessary. Now with her second Owner and having undergone a comprehensive refit in 2018, SHAYA MOYA has been optimised for independent living and is a strong consideration for anyone looking to enter the Oyster World Rally or indeed, the ARC.
Built over a 10-year period from the late 1990s onwards, the Oyster 56 is the most popular model in Oyster’s 42-year history, with more than 70 built. There are a number of reasons for this success, but in particular, it’s an optimum size for many people: small enough to be sailed by a couple without paid crew, but large enough to take four or even six guests in comfort as well. A Rob Humphreys design with good performance and up-to-date design thinking, while retaining hallmark Oyster features including a skeg-hung rudder, a cutter headed rig with an efficient heavy weather jib on a furler and a spacious deck saloon.
Below decks - The 56 was offered with the choice of two interior arrangements and SHAYA MOYA has the B option with a second guest cabins plus a workshop/utility room alongside the separate engine space. She also has a large ensuite Owner’s stateroom aft, and a double fore cabin, both with island beds. As you might expect, the saloon is superbly spacious and well lit. There’s also an impressive galley, with a four-burner gimbaled cooker, front opening fridge, a freezer, ice-maker, dishwasher and ample worktop and stowage space. The Oyster 56 offers an impressive amount of stowage that makes living on board for long periods significantly more comfortable and organised.
Rig
Cutter
CUTTER RIG
- Lewmar Commander Hydraulic System to power mainsail furling and outhaul, foresail and staysail. (hydraulic fluid drained and refilled 2018 - all hydraulic pipes replaced 2021).
- Formula Stoway white painted mast and boom with triple spreader rig.
- Mast gooseneck upgraded to hydraulic drive.
- Hydraulic outhaul for Formula Stoway mast with bypass valve.
- Boom preventer lines, each side of boom.
- Navtec hydraulic backstay with remote panel in cockpit.
- Navtec hydraulic vang.
- Standing and running rigging.
- Jumper struts in addition to running backstays.
- Conduits for masthead instrument wiring.
- 2x folding mast steps below mast top.
- No-Strike lightning protection on dissipater at masthead.
- Harken hydraulic headstay furler (serviced 2021).
- Harken hydraulic staysail furler (serviced 2021).
- Genoa and staysail furler bearings cleaned and serviced, hoses replaced and hydraulic terminals cleaned (2018).
- Hood Yacht Spars spinnaker gear with single carbon spinnaker pole stowed vertically on mast.
Rigging overhaul works (2018) with mast pulled:
- Rigging replaced predominantly in Dyform wire, with a Nitronic -50 rod backstay and 1/19 wire, and running backstay legs. Dyneema running backstays.
- Bottle screws replaced with stainless-steel, Sta-lok, Supajust turn-buckles with bronze inserts.
- Nitronic rod backstay fitted with replacement backstay insulators suitable for use with an SSB.
- New rigging fitted and mast re-stepped, with spreader link plates re-leathered.
- Mast electrical cables replaced with new tinned cable (excluding instrument and radar cables).
- Rope clutches fitted to mast and deck, cleaned, serviced and damaged components replaced.
- Hydraulic vang, backstay, and outhaul cylinders fully serviced, including boom vang tang and mast vang tang.
WINCHES
By Lewmar - self-tailing, chrome finish:
- 2x #66 CEST two speed, electric primary winches.
- 2x #54 secondary winches.
- 1x #48 CEST electric mainsheet winch.
- 2x #48 CST two speed, main and genoa halyard winches on mast.
- 2x #16 CST two speed, mainsheet traveller winches.
*All deck and mast mounted winches serviced during 2018 works.
**Winch handle pockets.
SAILS
By Evolution Sails - Hydra Net radial fabric, coated with Dimension-Polyant:
- Furling mainsail.
- Yankee.
- Staysail.
- MPS cruising chute.
- Storm sails.
Broker comments
"The quintessential Oyster and undisputed class leader at this size, the 56 is also our most successful model, with seventy-five launched between 1998 and 2010. Rob Humphreys designed the 56 to be large enough for rapid ocean cruising and to accommodate her crew in comfort and style when living aboard, but also to be small and agile enough to be handled by a couple. The 56 was the first yacht with an ergonomically designed cockpit, the result of working with Loughborough University's Ergonomics department, making relaxing and entertaining a true pleasure, whilst maintaining all the essential qualities you expect from a serious seagoing yacht. She’s a proven performer with class wins in the ARC, and also winning Cruising Class 1 at Antigua Sailing Week, beating a number of more serious racing competitors" - Oyster Yachts.
"With the Oyster 56, our mission was to design a world-class cruising yacht that would epitomise the features of the Oyster heritage and evolve them to create an ocean-going yacht which appeals to bluewater cruising enthusiasts. The Humphreys team uses extensive tank testing when designing our racing yachts and the concept of the 56’s keel has benefited from this experience. Her stylish, well-balanced profile and generous sail area make the best use of the yacht’s stability due to the low centre of gravity bulb keel. In designing the cockpit of the Oyster 56 - a focal point of its design - we commissioned professional ergonomic studies from the University of Loughborough’s Department of Ergonomics. The result sets new standards in comfort, seaworthiness and safety both at sea and in harbour, and makes for relaxed entertaining and socialising" - Designers notes.
Oyster 56/35 SHAYA MOYA is a great example of a yacht equipped for short-handed adventures with family and ocean cruising adventures and regattas. Her sailhandling systems are optimized for a small crew featuring hydraulic in-mast furling to the mainsail, headstay and staysail, along with a hydraulic outhaul, backstay and vang, which in conjunction with electric primary and mainsheet winches, means that sail controls are also easily adjustable from the comfort and safety of the centre cockpit.
Below deck, SHAYA MOYA is equipped with six berths in three cabins, consisting of two spacious doubles forward and aft, and a twin forward to port with berths wider than standard. The forth cabin space at midships consists of a workshop/utility with fantastic access to the engine room and ample storage throughout. Finished in Millennium style crown-cut maple, with teak soles, the accommodation is light and bright throughout, with upholstery that is easily adaptable to any taste.
Having undergone a comprehensive refit in 2018 with works including a new teak deck, rig pull and overhaul, installation of a completely new Raymarine instrumentation and communication suite, along with new batteries, electric davits, and servicing and replacement of a multitude of additional elements, SHAYA MOYA has been optimised for independent living and is a standout yacht amongst the Oyster 56 fleet.
NAVIGATION AIDS
- Flush-mounted SIRS Major 150mm (6”) diameter steering compass with internal lighting and stainless-steel crash bar to pedestal top.
- 4x Raymarine i50 multifunction displays (2018) - installed in panel mounted on a GRP console at companionway hatch area - integrated with the chart plotter.
- Pedestal: 1x i70 multifunction display (2018)
- Chart Table: 1x i70 multifunction display (2018)
- Owners Stateroom: 1x i50 multifunction colour display (2018)
- Raymarine Axiom 12, 12” multifunctional display (2018)
- Raymarine Axiom 9, 9” multifunctional display (2018)
- Raymarine 120 GPS.
- Dragonfly-5 Pro (2018) - for dinghy
- AIS Raymarine AIS system (2018)
- Raymarine P70 colour automatic pilot (2018) with Type 400G course computer, gyro rated compass and control heads at pedestal and chart table
- Additional RMK-10 remote keypad for remote control (2018)
- WINDEX Short arm wind transducer (2018)
- NAVTEX Furuno NX-300 NAVTEX receiver at chart table, with antenna.
- Raymarine MIC260 EU VHF, with masthead antenna.
- Additional Raymarine 260 VHF EU (second station with speaker in cockpit, and Raymarine horn connected to mast for hailer/foghorn functionality)
- SSB RADIO ICOM IC-M802 SSB radio - Wide copper strip from chart table to lazarette and twin large ground plates as SSB earth
- Backstay insulators.
- FB250 Inmarsat FleetBroadband satellite phone.
- Hardwire set-up for Iridium GO! marine satellite communication system.
- Nexcom Nise 3600E mini PC with intel i5 chip, 240gb SSD, 8gb ram with Windows7 operating system embedded (2018).
- AV Neovo SX-17Plus, black screen monitor at chart table (2018).
-Samsung, computer remote control, with on/off button (2018).
- Digital Yacht CF100 PC with monitor at chart table, and Canon printer/scanner.
- Wi-Fi (replaced 2018) and added Wi-Fi booster (2018).
- MailASail Redbox communication system.
- Yachtspot 3G/4G (G3, global version) system providing shore side Wi-Fi hot spot and 3G/4G data network (2018).
- Shakespeare 5239/LMR400, speaker mounted 4G antenna with LMR coaxial assembly (2018).
- Glomex PRA471-PRM280/LMR240, spreader mounted Wi-Fi antenna with LMR coaxial cable assembly (2018).
- Netgear GS116, 16 port gigabit network switch (2018).
- Logitech unifying, keyboard and mouse (2018).
- Startech USB 3.0 hub, with 7x ports and DC powered (2018).
- Actisense NGT-1-USB, NMEA 2000 USB data converter (interfaces instruments to PC) (2018).
- Synology DS416SLIM NAS drive with RAID for storage of movies, music and PC backup (2018).
- 4 Western Digital, 1 tb Sata with RAID backup (2018).
GROUND TACKLE
- 45kg (88lb) stainless-steel Ultra anchor with 100m of 12mm stainless-steel chain and chain counter (2018).
- 20kg Bruce kedge anchor with 100m of 18mm Octoplait warp and 10m of 12mm chain.
- Recessed locker within the foredeck for anchor chain stowage, fitted with hinged lids and flush type locking devices - Removable anchor locker partition at forward end for kedge warp and chain stowage.
- Lewmar Ocean 3 vertical (24V) capstan gypsy/drum type hydraulic anchor windlass - Two-way and operated on deck by adjacent foot switches. Remote windlass control switch at pedestal.
- Servicing of anchor windlass and chain counter (2018).
SAFETY EQUIPMENT
- 6-person canister liferaft (replaced 2022) - Liferaft storage built into pushpit, forward of port pushpit seat.
- EPIRB (replaced 2022).
- Firdell blipper radar reflector on mast.
- SeaMe active radar reflector.
- Jabsco Maxi 3000 Puppy electric bilge pump with Par Hydro air switch (rated at 2,640 litres per hour).
- Henderson MkV manual bilge pump (rated at 135 litres per minute) operated from within the cockpit (Fully serviced 2021).
- Each bilge pump is fitted with a Whale type filtered strum box.
- Submersible 24V Jabsco 3550 bilge pump (3,000 gallons per hour) in bilge sump, with float switch.
- Horseshoe lifebuoys with lights.
- Webbing jackstays.
- 4x stainless-steel U-bolts for safety harness attachment in cockpit.
- Emergency tiller.
- Various fire extinguishers including automatic fire extinguisher in engine bay (all replaced 2018).
- Fire blanket in galley.
- Gas alarm.
- Automatic foghorn.
- Watertight bulkhead in forward cabin.
- Stainless-steel pulpit and pushpit.
- Guard wires and guard wire gates replaced with non-coated stainless steel wire (2018).
- Stainless-steel grab rails atop deck saloon.
- Pair of gateway stanchions and side-gates for boarding..
- Stern and side gateways to stainless steel protection bars.
- Gate to pushpit.
GENERAL EQUIPMENT
- A solid teak-topped, gloss varnished cockpit table permanently installed in a robust stainless-steel frame, with folding leaves - Hinged lid gives access to insulated GRP cool box within, refrigerated via a Frigomatic 24V (keel-cooled) refrigeration unit.
- Stainless-steel bathing/board ladder with teak treads.
- Lightweight passerelle (passerelle socket in top transom step).
- Teak outboard bracket on starboard side pushpit.
- Cooney electric davits - 300kg maximum total load (replaced 2018).
- Stainless-steel open fairleads fitted into bulwark.
- Stainless-steel mooring cleats.
- Additional pairs of fairleads and aft bulwark mooring cleats for stern-to mooring.
- Cockpit cleats.
- 6x GRP Dorade boxes with flexible cowls and stainless-steel guard rails.
- 2x built-in, self draining deck stowage lockers, located at the aft end of the coachroof for stowage of deck gear.
- Large full-width aft lazarette locker with twin stainless-steel gas struts fitted to lid.
- Stern quarter pushpit seats in teak and stainless-steel.
- Ensign staff socket.
- 2x stern posts for navigation/communications antennae.
- AB 3.4m inflatables RIB with Raymarine GPS and depth sounder.
- Yamaha 4-stroke 25hp lightweight outboard motor.
- Various warps and fenders.
- Bauer Junior dive compressor with four cylinders in lazarette (cylinders refurbished 2022).
- White (plain) Wedgwood bone china crockery.
- Oyster customised Sheffield stainless-steel cutlery.
- 4-brick safe with key lock.
- Large Heyco marine tool kit in sealed box.
- Assorted tools, spares and manuals.
- All canvas work in Sunbrella ‘Grey’ acrylic (unless otherwise stated):
- Large custom fold-down companionway sprayhood with stainless-steel frame, with zip-up window panel in its forward section and leather covered stainless-steel grab rail (sprayhood grab handle re-leathered) (2018).
- Stainless-steel frame for bimini..
- Padded cockpit table cover with access flap to coolbox.
- Covers for pedestal and steering wheel.
- Cockpit seat cushions in closed cell foam with acrylic covers.
- Awning to cover entire boat from mast to stern.
- Pair of waterproof loudspeakers mounted within the coamings either side of the pedestal.
Perkins/Sabre M115T 4-cylinder diesel engine (115hp at 2,400rpm).
- Full engine service carried out annually (last serviced 2023).
- Approximately 5,500 engine hours at March 2024.
- Aquadrive couplings installed at inboard end of shaft, which incorporates a thrust bearing to absorb shaft thrust and increase gearbox life.
- Engine and generator Racor filters parallel plumbed to allow cross supply of fuel for engine and generator on polished stainless-steel tray with backplate in workshop locker.
- Racor 500FG fuel filter and water separator.
- Max Prop 3-bladed 600mm (24”) diameter feathering propeller (fully serviced 2024).
- Ambassador AM15 rope cutter on shaft (serviced during 2018 works, to include replacement bearings, polished).
- Twin alternators:
- 1x 55A/12V alternator for engine start battery charging.
- 1x Mastervolt 150A/24V high output heavy-duty alternator with 3-stage charge regulator for domestic battery charging.
- Electric Sleipner 10.7hp tunnel bow thruster with GRP eyebrow, and control panel on steering pedestal.
- Manifold system for seawater inlets to reduce through-hull fittings.
TANKAGE
- FUEL: one GRP tank installed under the port side deck saloon floor.= 1,050 litres approximately (231 Imp gallons/277 US gallons).
- WATER: one GRP tank installed under the starboard side deck saloon floor. = 950 litres approximately (209 Imp gallons/251 US gallons)
* Tank Tender System linked to all tanks for monitoring fuel and water tank levels.
** Backup calibrated dipsticks with calibration chart.
- HOLDING TANKS: 2x plastic (Polypropylene) toilet holding tanks installed for each head and plumbed for gravity discharge, with additional ability to pump out from deck.
* Tanks fitted with electric capacity gauges.
- GREY WATER: Showers and washbasins discharge into two sump tanks, one forward and one aft, which then evacuate via a dedicated electric Whale ‘Gulper’ pump directly overboard. The galley sink also empties via an electric Whale ‘Gulper’ pump.
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
Batteries replaced during 2018 works:
- Domestic: 8 x Lifeline AGM deep-cycle 6V (20 hour) batteries, giving a total of 460Ah at 24V. (Replaced 2018)
- Engine start: 88Ah Delta AGM battery.
- Generator start: 12V gel cell battery.
* All batteries are positively secured against inversion in the case of a knockdown.
** Emergency link between engine and generator start batteries.
Cummins Onan MDKBN 11kW diesel generator with remote digital control panel (NEW 2018) with 12V DC dedicated start battery, charged by its own alternator - Approximately 350 generator hours at March 2024.
Mastervolt 220V MASS 24V/100A battery charger, including temperature sensor.
Mastervolt BTM1 battery monitor.
Mastervolt 3-stage regulator.
Victron Orion DC-DC filtered power supply (2018).
2x (220V) Mastervolt 24V/1500W inverters.
220V AC ring main with double Clipsal outlet sockets located as appropriate within the layout.
24V socket at pedestal.
12V cigar lighter socket at chart table, including dropper.
2x USB ports with Vimar surround (2018).
30A dockside shore power cable, 3-core double insulated PVC, 18m (60’) in length.
Hubbell socket in the coaming.
Additional secondary 30A shore power cable and socket for air conditioning loads.
Interior Lighting:
- LED overhead downlights.
- 2x overhead lights with red lenses for night lights.
- Reading lights for each berth.
- LED lights in each head compartment and above galley work surfaces.
- Automatic refrigerator door light.
- Automatic light to drinks locker.
- Red LED courtesy footlights at deck saloon, chart table and galley steps.
- Flexible chart table light.
- Exterior dome lights in engine room.
Exterior Lighting:
- Boom light over cockpit table.
- Pair of lower spreader downlights with remote control.
- LED port and starboard bow navigation lights.
- LED stern navigation light.
- Steaming/deck floodlight.
- Tri-white anchor
avigation light at masthead.
- Aft deck LED light.
- Switches in cockpit at pedestal are EAO flush units.
WATER SYSTEMS
- Pressurised hot and cold freshwater system based on a high-capacity water pump with pressure accumulator tank, and Acorn polypropylene pipework and fittings.
- Secondary hot/cold water system and manual pump back up.
- Hot water from an insulated approximately 76 litre (17 Imp gallons/20 US gallons) tank heated by the engine’s heat exchanger, or by thermostatically controlled 220V, 2kW immersion heater element powered by the generator
or dockside power.
- 220V Seafresh 206A watermaker (95 litres per hour), complete with high-pressure pump in engine room - Control panel, valves, pressure gauge, flow meter and membranes assembly in workshop.
- Hot and cold freshwater deck shower in transom locker.
- Freshwater anchor/deck wash in bow.
GAS SYSTEM
- Gas locker within the aft deck with stowage for two 6kg bottled gas cylinders (drains overboard with flush hinged lid).
- Gas inspection (2021).
Oyster 56
Built in 2004
Refit in 2018
Designed by Rob Humphreys and the Oyster Design Group
UK VAT paid
Hull Number: Oyster 56.35.
Category A – Ocean.
DIMENSIONS
LOA 17.49m (57’4”)
LWL 14.97m (49’1”)
BEAM 4.95m (16’3”)
DRAFT 2.52m (8’3”)
DISPLACEMENT 26,500kg (58,422lb)
AIR DRAFT 22.68m (74’5”)
*All figures are approximate
HULL CONSTRUCTION
- GRP from female moulds built by Oyster in their own facility under the designer’s supervision, ensuring a smooth and accurate finish.
- Structure moulded to designer’s specification in a Lloyd’s approved facility under controlled conditions and all laminating carried out by hand to a high standard.
- Mouldings produced using a Lloyd’s approved gelcoat and laminating resin.
- Hull gelcoat and three outer laminates incorporate a special isophthalic resin and powerbound mats.
- Moulded with conventional stringer construction above and below the waterline.
HULL FINISH
- White hull with cove line and double boot top lines in Reichhold Norpol black.
- Topsides, caveta line and boot top stripes washed, plus machine compound and wave polished during 2018 works.
- Coppercoat burnished in preparation for relaunching.
- Hull anodes replaced annually (new 2024).
- Engine intake louvres sanded smooth and repainted Awlgrip ‘Jet Black.’
DECK CONSTRUCTION
- Moulded in GRP with balsa core.
- Core in load-bearing areas replaced with plywood for additional strength, and all load-bearing fittings have aluminium backing plates.
- Oyster deck saloon profile with eyebrow styling.
- Deck saloon roof painted with white non-slip deck paint forward of the sprayhood rail.
DECK FINISH
- Teak laid side decks, forward and aft coachroof, cockpit seats, sole and helmsman’s seat.
- Laid using quarter sawn planks and no visible fastenings on epoxy glue.
- Planking is nibbed into the king plank and the decking is installed with margin boards around hatches, dorade vents, cabin sides and all major deck fittings.
- The deck edge incorporates internal scupper drains.
- Raised bulwark finished with teak capping rail.
Teak deck works (completed 2018):
- All deck gear and teak panels on ring deck, foredeck, aft deck and aft deck lockers removed.
- Teak panels replaced and deck fitting reinstalled and bedded on fresh sealant.
- Cockpit sole and cockpit seat teak re-caulked and sanded.
- Deck, superstructure and all deck GRP surfaces washed, plus machine compound and wax polished.
KEEL
- High-performance bulb (HPB) external lead keel.
STEERING
- Remote Whitlock Athena steering pedestal incorporating a 1.2m (48”) diameter stainless-steel Maxi wheel and friction brake.
- Overhaul of wire steering cables with new stainless steel bulldog clamps and refurbished quadrant (2018).
- Steering wheel covered in leather, which extends to partially cover the spokes (re-leathered 2018).
RUDDER
- Fully protected skeg-hung rudder.
STERN DESIGN
- ‘Sugar scoop’ stern design with bathing platform trimmed with teak slats and stainless-steel steps with teak treads for access to the stern deck.
- Fold-down stainless-steel bathing/boarding ladder with teak treads.