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Oyster SJ35 |
Brief details |
Builder |
Oyster Marine/Landamores |
Sometimes called
a Hustler SJ35, the Oyster SJ35 is a IOR-era cruiser-racer, originally rated as a 3/4 tonner.
The SJ35 is very definitely towards the racier end
of the cruiser-racer spectrum, early boats winning many offshore races, including a Fastnet. She is a relatively light boat with a large and very tunable twin-spreader fractional
rig with runners. The accommodation is fairly spacious, but simply
and lightly fitted out. |
LOA |
34' 4" |
Sail area |
- |
LWL |
27' 3" |
Rig |
fractional sloop |
Beam |
11' 5" |
Cabins |
open plan |
Draught |
6' 3" |
Berths |
6 |
Displacement |
8,550 lbs |
Engine |
Usually Yanmar |
Ballast |
- |
BHP |
18 - 27 |
Keel type |
Lead fin keel and spade rudder |
Confusingly, as well as this design, the Oyster Hustler SJ35,
there was also an Oyster 35 design (a centre cockpit cruiser designed
by Holman and Pye) , and a Hustler 35 (also a Holman & Pye design,
but an early IOR fin-and-skeg cruiser-racer, very like a bigger
Hustler
30) |
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Oyster Marine have built a range of yachts
since the early 1970s, from 26 foot upwards. In the 1980s Oyster's
range included pure cruisers, cruiser-racers and outright
racing boats. The Stephen Jones designed Hustler SJ35 and
the Oyster 39, which were IOR 3/4 Ton and One Ton Cup class
cruiser-racers, were both based on very successful one-off racing
designs. There was also a Hustler 36 and a larger Oyster 43
cruiser-racer by Stephen Jones. SJ35s still race offshore
with some success, given good crews and sails.
The engine is at the forward end of the saloon, to keep weight
amidships, driving a folding prop through a long shaft. Oyster
SJ35s were built from around 1983 to at least 1990, with some
later boats perhaps also built. The wedge-shaped keel design
was changed to an 'chopped elliptical' profile around 1989.
Some SJ35s were built with berths in the forecabin, but the
yacht interior illustrated has the forepeak used solely as sail stowage.
Through the 1980s Oyster started to move into the larger
cruising boat market, although still producing the SJ35 and
other cruiser-racer models to special order.
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In recent years Oyster
has moved to production of large - in fact near superyacht
standard - deck saloon cruisers, the current range having
46 foot as the smallest length, with 82 ft the largest in
production, though 100 foot plus models are reportedly planned. |
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