FAR SIDE - 2008 68' OYSTER MARINE LTD 655
Portsmouth Rhode Island United States
$1,450,000 USD

• (3) 220V Dometic Air conditioning units (2024) 

• (1) 220V Dometic variable frequency air conditioning unit (2023) 

• Eight berths in four cabins, excluding the saloon 

• Interior joinery finished in American Oak with Oyster 'millennium' styling, designed to be modern and coordinated, while remaining practical and durable at sea 

• Essential features include sculpted fiddles and grab-rails, 'shadow-gap' joints between panels and Oyster custom knobs for lockers and drawers 

• Cabin sole in 'checkerboard' style teak  

• Cantalupi night/courtesy lighting for companionway steps, each step in saloon area and master cabin, with entry switch at top of companionway 

• Custom shelving in galley, master cabin lockers and electronics lockers 

• Additional Cantalupi recessed lighting added in master head and over the navigation table 

• Galley surfaces in Avonite Night Pearl satin finish, with routered drainage grooves 

• Head surfaces in Avonite Kaleidoscope satin finish  

• Headlining in off-white vinyl  

• Upholstery – Alcantara Anthracite in saloon, and Chic Grey in cabins  

• Lee screens on sea berths  

• Curtains/blind system to all cabins  

• Deck saloon Skysol blinds (2021) 

• Oceanair Skyscreens to all deck hatches  

• Flyscreens to all opening hull and coachroof ports  

• (7) 24V Caframo fans 

• Featuring a large, custom, slightly curved L-shaped settee to starboard and a slightly curved settee to port 

• Central to the L-shaped settee is a gorgeous fixed table with built-in hand grip 

• Locker with bottle stowage housed beneath table 

• Salon table and mast cover  

• Lockers outboard and behind saloon settee backs, as well as storage lockers beneath the seats 

• Book rack and lockers for stowage of crockery and glasses 

• Electric lift mount for TV in port side hullport recess 

• Bosch WVT1260 washer/dryer installed in the saloon 

• U-shaped with plenty of worktop space 

• Custom galley stainless steel backsplash, full length of sink bulkhead  

• Stainless steel Force 10 gourmet 3-burner stove and oven; custom-gimbaled, with protective stainless steel grab bar across front 

• Front-opening fridge and top-opening freezer, consisting of: 

- 24V DC @50 F for galley fridge with keel cooler 

- Frigomatic 24V DC @50 F twin compressors with twin plate for freezer box (new 2021 with spare compressor) 

• Microwave oven (2021) 

• Twin stainless steel sinks 

• Seagull purifier water system, which also supplies ice maker, with dedicated faucet 

• A large rubbish bin is fitted under counter 

• (3) Access doors to engine room from aft passage 

• Large hanging locker with vent to engine room for drying 

• 32” LCD Sony TV on electric lift, in port side hullport recess  

• Fusion stereo system with speakers in saloon, cockpit and owner’s cabin 

• 24V ship’s supply 

• 40A 24V alternator for start battery charging and Mastervolt 150A 24V high output alternator for domestic battery charging controlled by a Mastervolt Alpha Pro Regulator (Jan 2020) 

• (2) 100A Mastervolt MASS battery chargers 

• New 240VAC and 24VDC Electrical System with Lithium Batteries (2023) 

• Complete new hardware and wiring from shore power to 24VDC system. 

• Direct shore power to charger design with all 240VAC, 50 HZ equipment powered by inverters. AirCon units, water heater and watermaker can be powered by lithium batteries. 

• Mastervolt hardware including: 

• (5) MLI 24/6000 Lithium batteries  

• (3) Chargemaster Plus 24/110-2 chargers

• (2) Mass Sine Ultra 24/4000 inverters

• Mastervolt inverter for 110v power outlets  

• Mastervolt EasyView 5 Multi-Function Display 

• New 240 Volt Panel Board at Navigation Station 

• New engine instrument panel at port helm station 

• 220V/110/v mains AC ring main with (7) double 3-pin outlet sockets 

• 12V socket at chart table 

• 24V dry-plug socket at starboard pedestal for MCA fire-fighting system 

• Shaver sockets in each head 

• Downlight-type LED lights in polished chrome finish with downlighters over reading areas 

• LED lights in each head, as well as over the galley work surfaces 

• Reading light for each berth 

• (2) Perko exterior dome lights in engine room 

• (3) Rod “courtesy” footlights at deck saloon steps 

• Flexible chart table light 

• LED cockpit lights installed in Bimini 

• Pair of lower spreader lights 

• Lopolight LED tri white anchor/navigation light at masthead 

• Lopolight LED steaming light 

• Lopolight LED navigation lights at bow and stern 

• (8) Low-level LED lights in cockpit 

• White LED courtesy lighting on transom to light bathing platform 

• (2) Adjustable footlights, one on each satellite mast, custom installed with waterproof switch under aft step. 

• LED bilge and engine room lighting  

• 50A Dockside shore power cable 

• Hubbell socket in transom, plus additional 30A shore power socket 

• Polarity changeover switch to alter polarity manually to operate with both shore supplies 

• New custom display panels for two helm stations and navigation station panels  

• Star Link Marine 

• New (2022) KVH V3-HTS VSat system 

• (2) Globemaster compass at helm station – (black) 

• B&G H3000 CPU giving speed, depth, wind speed and analogue direction at each pedestal and chart table 

• Simrad autopilot with monochrome graphic pilot display on port pedestal 

• Windex at masthead 

• Simrad RS87 VHF with hailer horn function 

• Simrad RS87 VHF 2nd station including speaker at port pedestal 

• (2) Icom handheld VHF with charging socket at chart table 

• Wide copper strip and twin large ground plates as SSB earth 

• Backstay insulated as aerial 

• Deck structure molded in GRP with balsa core 

• Teak-laid deck re-caulked (2024) 

• Walk-through teak-laid cockpit 

• Oyster deck saloon profile with 'G5' styling 

• The deck edge incorporates a bulwark which facilitates relatively flat side decks. The top of the bulwark is clean GRP finish with a new, modern and stylish rolled edge 

• Ample C-Quip stainless steel folding cleats, with extra pair on aft bulwark for stern-to mooring 

• Stainless steel grabrails atop deck saloon 

• Carbon passarelle with socket in top stem of transom  

• Stainless steel bathing ladder  

• Stainless steel pulpit, pushpit, and gateway midship stanchions 

• Stainless steel hinging boarding ladders close up to form the side-gates 

• Gate to pushpit 

• Life raft stowage built into pushpit  

• Custom stainless steel Satcom masts (port/starboard) on the stern 

• Stern quarter seats incorporated into pushpit 

• Lazarette locker with twin gas struts and stainless steel rail for rope stowage 

• Hot and cold freshwater deck shower in transom locker plus freshwater hose outlet  

• Gas locker with two fiberglass bottles 

• Twin lectern-style pedestals with 46" Mini-Maxi stainless steel wheels with suede leather covers 

• Stainless steel mug racks on each pedestal 

• 105 lb. CQR main anchor 

• 66 lb. Danforth anchor 

• Carbon fiber bowsprit 

• Spare 350' anchor rode  

• 10m/ 12mm chain and 100m/ 18mm warp attached by eye and shackle  

• Anchor stemhead fitting:  Custom stainless steel pin and strap support added 

• Lewmar 3000 vertical gypsy/drum windlass with remote control switch on port pedestal 

• Anchor washdown system  

• Anchor locker grate  

• (6) Lewmar alloy-framed deck hatches, plus additional hatches over cabins and heads according to MCA regulations 

• Gebo alloy-framed portlights in coaming 

• Gebo opening hullports 

• Cooney composite davits to take 400 kg load with strengthening webs bonded in lazarette 

• Cockpit table is teak and stainless with refrigerated coolbox 

• Coolbox has Frigomatic 24V refrigeration, direct water-cooled (new 2021) 

• Cockpit cushions (Sunbrella – beige installed 2024) 

• Main companionway hatch with signature Oyster vertical sliding “drop down” washboard of acrylic which may be locked in three positions. Fitted with stainless ventilation grill 

• Dual wheel covers in elkhide

All in light Tan Sunbrella (all new 2024) to cool the cockpit  

• Dodger with elk-hide grab bar 

• Full sectional bimini from dodger to helm 

• Side curtains and aft sectional awning for mooring or aft deck 2024 

• Covers for cockpit table and dual-helm pedestals 

• Cockpit, foredeck, helm seats, pushpit cushions

• Rig pulled, mast boom and all standing rigging removed, level C inspection (June 2022) 

• Cutter rig 

• Hall Mast (painted white) with hydraulic furling 

• Hall Boom (painted white) with in-boom hydraulic reversing outhaul – overhauled 2024 

• Solid hydraulic vang 

• Hydraulic backstay legs and rams 

• Standing rod rigging (new 2023) 

• Reckmann hydraulic headsail furler  

• Reckmann hydraulic staysail furler 

• New hydraulic lines in sail locker (Feb 2020) 

• Spinnaker gear:  Cruising chute package with single carbon pole stowed vertically on mast, halyard, sheets, blocks, topping lift and downhaul 

• Check stays  

• North Sails 3di Ocean 700 mainsail 

• North Sails 3di Ocean 700 genoa 

• North Sails 3di Ocean 700 staysail 

• New North Sails custom spinnaker 

• (2) 3-speed electric primaries 

• (2) 2-speed secondaries 

• (1) 2-speed electric mainsheet 

• (1) 2-speed traveler control  

• (1) 2-speed reefing control line  

• (1) 2-speed genoa and staysail halyard  

• Deck-mounted electric halyard 

• Perkins Sabre M185C (5,123 hours, May 2025) – 6 cylinder 187 hp main engine with 24V start (engine blowers new 2020) (installed new sound insulation in salon bilge areas 2014) (new gauges in cockpit 2014) 

• 3-Bladed 30" diameter Brunton feathering prop  

• New rope cutter on shaft installed 2024 

• New cutlass bearings (2021) 

• Prop shaft cutlass bearing and inner shaft coupling replaced, new dripless, aqua drive serviced (2021) 

• Onan 17.5 KVA generator (4,390 hours, May 2025) with e-QD digital display system 

• Maxpower CT325 – 18hp tunnel bow thruster with eyebrow refurbished motor installed 2024 

• Whitlock Mamba torque rod linkage steering system, installed with twin remote pedestals, each incorporating a 46” diameter Mini Maxi type stainless steel wheel with elkhide covers, friction brake, and three-bearing pedestal steering unit (completely serviced 2014) 

• Lewmar 400 Commander hydraulic system to operate headsail furling, staysail furling, mainsail furling and mainsail outhaul 

• 2023 Hydraulic refit & service – Hydraulic Furling System 

• Service Lemar Hydraulic Motors (2), New brushes 

• Replace Hydraulic hoses and new fitting/couplings 

• Fuel:  502 US gallons in (2) GRP tanks 

• Water:  422 US gallons in (2) GRP tanks 

• Spectra 24 V DC water maker (2024) 

• Fuel and water tanks are coupled to a tank tender contents gauge. Back-up dipsticks are fitted and calibration charts supplied to all tanks 

• Hot water from an insulated 19-gallon tank heated by the engine's heat exchanger, or by thermostatically-controlled 220V, 1.25kW immersion heater elements powered by the generator or dockside power 

• Pressurized hot and cold freshwater system, pump replaced (2020) with spare in stores 

• U-Line SS95 icemaker installed 2024 – powered by main inverter and water supply from Seagull purifier 

• (3) Gravity discharge polypropylene toilet holding tanks for each of the (3) heads, fitted with Wema gauges 

• (2) Welded polypropylene greywater tanks are each fitted with a Rule mercury float switch and a Whale “Gulper’ pump, to give automatic evacuation of all showers and washbasins. The galley sinks pump directly overboard via an electric Whale “Gulper’ pump manually activated by a waterproof rocker switch 

• (2) Manifold systems in the main bilge area: Linked stainless steel fabrications fed by (2) 2” strainers and seacocks. Aquafax heavy-duty 2” chromed bronze water strainers for the aft manifolds and 1.5” for the forward manifold. All seacocks are quarter-turn de-zincification resistant (DZR) copper alloy reinforced ball valves with bronze through-hull fittings. The main engine and generator exhausts each have a GRP standpipe 

• EPIRBS serviced (2024) 

• Sea-Me active radar transponder on masthead, with control at chart table  

• Echomax 230r radar reflector on mast above radar dome 

• Par 34600 electric (2024) and Henderson MkV manual bilge pumps 

• Horseshoe lifebuoys with lights 

• Danbuoys updated 2024 

• New high volume electric bilge pump installed 2024 

• 2 new life rafts installed 2024 

• Webbing jackstays 

• MOB button 

• Emergency tiller 

• Preventer lines fixed on main boom to attach to lazy pole downhaul guy 

• (8) Mounted fire extinguishers and automatic fire extinguisher in engine bay 

• Bilge level alarm at pedestals and LED indicator at main DC panel 

• Gas alarm 

• Fire extinguishers serviced (July 2024) 

• Fire shutters to engine space intake/discharge ducts with remote operation 

• Auto fire protection in rear of AC/DC electrical panel 

• Gas detector in galley with (2) sensors 

• Fog horn on mast  

• In-line ¼-turn valves to water and fuel tank breathers 

• Solas approved hydrostatic inflatable life vests with integral harnesses, strobes, whistles, tethers and jacklines; with additional flashlights; knives; 

• (8) Adult offshore PFDs; (2) Child offshore PFDs 

• Stanchion-mounted hydrostatic release EPIRB 

• Stanchion-mounted pair of life rings 

• (2) Stanchion-mounted strobes 

• Stanchion-mounted MOB pole 

• Stanchion-mounted life sling with block and tackle 

• Extensive ARC Ditch Bag 

• Mega fenders, lines  

• (8) Dock lines; anchor snubber  

• Heyco marine tool kit 

• Comprehensive tools, spares and manuals 

• Teak deck refinished, caulking replaced and sanded

• Gelcoat repairs 

• Cockpit table refinished 

• All canvas replaced  

• Cushions recovered 

• Sunshades for bimini made 

• New mattresses in owners and guest cabin 

• New AB 13' Alumina dinghy with 30hp Honda electric start/trim motor 

• North Sails - Helix Cruising G-zero NPL, Facnor furling kit and integrator 

• Fabricated carbon fibre Bowsprit for G-zero sail 

• New docklines, furling lines and sheets for G-zero 

• Boom reconditioned including outhaul service 

• Solar panels installed 

• New life rafts and Jon Buoy 

• Rebuilt bow thruster motor  

• Apple TV installed 

• Cabinetry touched up. Tool/storage cabinet built under top bunk - Stbd crew cabin 

• Fire suppression system inspected and extinguishers recharged 

• New ship PC and nav software 

• Spectra DC water maker installed 

• Aircon pump replaced. Three new Dometic air conditioners installed - fourth installed in 2023 

• Main engine serviced, heat exchanger replaced, injectors serviced, alternator mounting reinforced, replaced exhaust elbows   

• Generator serviced and cooling system flushed 

• GOST alarm and monitoring system installed - deck pressure sensors, companionway sensor, cameras, low voltage sensor, high water sensor, CO2 sensor 

• 3rd 230v Mastervolt inverter installed. 110v power outlets added in owner's cabin and stbd crew cabin 

• USB C outlets added to nav station 

• Bilge pump replaced 

• Fresh water pump replaced 

• Back up high-volume bilge pump installed, general electrical work 

• General engineering, new fridge pumps, davit service 

• New icemaker installed 

• All heads reconditioned