Oyster 435

[Hurleyburly]

1985 vintage - been hanging around unloved and for sale for the past 18 months in a local marina.

Original instruments and engine, but recent sails. Teak deck's looking a touch creaky too.

Anyone suggest realistic price ?

How do they sail ?

Presume the build is bulletproof being an Oyster ?

 

[linsayh]

If this is a bereavement sale(?), then might know of it through friend. This one is now listed with Fox's for reason below.

I am led to believe that Oysters tend not to sell very well if outside Oyster brokerage as seen as possibly uncared for etc.

A mate has one, tho' I've not sailed on it, and he loves it. Does look nice.

Trevor

 

[tome]

Oyster have no less than 8 435's for sale on their brokerage site, don't understand why they aren't moving as they are a very nice boat with good performance and strongly built.

Watch for water ingress around the chain plates in the saloon - check the state of the screwheads in the teak cladding as a giveaway. Also check for water leaks around the glazing (especially in the foc'sle) and the state of the mast heel. They all leak some water down the mast.

The engine is shoehorned into quite a tight space- not quite the spacious engine room of a HR. Very nice aft cabin on most examples. The foc'sle berths are a bit small. Sloop much more popular than ketch when it comes to resale.

One of our forumites demonboy has one, he has a nice website which is worth a look.

As for price, I would think a cheeky offer around £100k should be in order for that vintage.

 

[tcm]

100k cheeky offer

It's wortth using the "boats for sale" button above , and limit the search for oysters between 1984 and 1985, and between 43 and 44 feet long. £100k isn't "cheeky" - it's about the asking price. £75k or £80k would show you're a serious punter if it's been ashore for a year, imho, especially with plenty around. Praps offer £75,500 subject to survey which is just serious enough for them to start haggling but also shifts the negotiations towards lumps of £500, not £1000 or £5000.

For real cheek, offer to take it off his hands for fifty quid, provided that he lets you first try out the aft cabin with his missus.

 

[mike_bryon]

I sailed one from Crete to the UK once, 23 days at sea. The round saloon table did not really work very well at sea. The galley was great. The skipper found the aft cabin hard work with rather difficult to use lee cloths but up forward us crew were v comfortable. You had to step down from the saloon to everywhere else below deck, which took some getting used to (especially the heads). The in mast main reefing system was a big disappointment. The deck worked really well with a large lazarette. But for the main reefing it was a good sea/sailing boat.

 

[Hurleyburly]

She's on at £106K, or £110K if you look at the Oyster site. Certainly costing someone a pretty penny in berthing fees, 'cos shes afloat, Western Med.

TCM, I'm in agreement, my feeling was £75K, as she wasn't completed by Oyster, just sold as a hull and bulkheads - it looks like a competent yard fit out tho.

I too am not sure why there are so many 435s around, I suspect they didn't mould many in the first place.

SeaMaid, not sure about a bereavement sale, does have that 'feel' though.

 

[tome]

Got her now, agree about the 75k offer she's been on sale for quite a while and is 'home finished'. It's an unusual interior layout with 4 bunks in the foc'sle and an extra berth in the aft cabin. The galley is normally in the port companionway to the after cabin, but this has the large en-suite heads/shower in the aft cabin and no walkway to port. The nav station is quite far forward to s'board.

She has the raised deck saloon which means the cabin sole is also raised as Mike describes with a step down. One advantage of this version as opposed to the 'coachroof' version is that there is space for more tankage under the sole.

The ketch rig would put me off, but some people prefer it.

Good luck!