# 1985 Oyster 435

> 1985 Oyster 435 coachroof cruising yacht lying at Troon, with Perkins 4.108 rebuilt 2021 and standing rigging renewed 2018. £45,000 — Euroyachts Troon.

Web page: https://euroyachts.com/boats/oyster-435-8418/

## Key facts

- Status: For sale
- Price: £45,000
- Condition: Used
- Make: Oyster
- Model: 435
- Year: 1985
- Type: Cruising Yacht
- Length overall: 42ft (12.8m)
- Beam: 4.17m
- Draft: 1.83m
- Cabins: 2
- Berths: 7
- Heads: 1
- Engines: Perkins 4.108 51hp
- Fuel: Diesel
- Hull construction: GRP
- Keel: Fin Keel
- Designer: Holman & Pye
- Lying: Troon Yacht Haven
- Listed by: Euroyachts Troon
- Contact: 01292 318002, info@euroyachts.com
- Reference: 8418

## Description

This Oyster 435 is a capable yacht with a good turn of speed that is equally at home exploring local waters and venturing further offshore. Its spacious cockpit and well balanced feel under sail combined with its spacious accommodation creates a comfortable, practical cruising yacht, suitable for extended periods on board. New standing rigging 2018, running rigging 2018-2023, gas hoses 2024 and new batteries 2022. This Oyster 435 is one of a limited number designed and built with a coachroof rather than the deck saloon style of other Oyster Yachts.

Offered for sale at an attractive price of £45,000, though reasonable offers will be considered

Part exchange may be available and nationwide delivery can be arranged.

## Accommodation

- Forward cabin with V berths with an infill cushion to convert to a double berth, newly upholstered with storage under. Hanging locker, portlights and opening deck hatch. Door leading through to passageway, with to starboard, a two tier bunk cabin with portlights and a deck hatch and to port, the heads. Door through to the spacious saloon with a recently upholstered L shaped settee to port with a dining table and bench seat to starboard. Full size forward facing chart table to port with swivel seat, galley to starboard.
- Door aft to port to the double berth cabin with fixed portlights and an opening portlight to the cockpit, vanity unit with a sink and storage, access to engine.
- Door aft to starboard, to aft storage area with engine access, circuit breakers and tiller arms, also with access from cockpit locker.
- Central companionway
- Saloon has a wood floor and wood lined ceiling
- Taylors 41 two burner gas stove with hot plate, oven and grill
- Frigomatic fridge
- Double stainless steel sinks
- Storage
- Hot and cold water system
- Two water tanks totalling 315 litres
- Gas installation certificate April 2024, hoses replaced
- Jabsco sea toilet
- Shower
- Sink
- Portlights and opening deck hatch

## Mechanical and rigging

- Perkins 4.108 51hp diesel engine
- Engine removed and rebuilt professionally in October 2021
- Exhaust hose, ignition switch and stop cable renewed November2023
- Engine compartment repainted and new sound proofing fitted 2021
- Three bladed bronze propeller
- Engine battery 110Ah May 2022
- Two domestics batteries 110Ah May 2022
- Shore power socket
- Battery charger 30A
- Engine alternator 80A
- Fuel tank cleaned and resealed 2022
- Automatic fire extinguisher 2022, still to be fitted in engine compartment
- Standing rigging fitted 2018
- Running rigging fitted 2018 and 2023
- Fully battened main sail in good condition
- Yankee by WB Leitch & Son, Tarbert, lightly used
- Heavy duty staysail by Owen Sails, Oban
- Harken ESP Unit 1 furler for Yankee 2018
- Harken ESP Unit 2 furler for staysail 2018
- Cruising chute with snuffer
- Main sail in kevlar 2004, currently stored off the boat
- Two older sails stored off the boat
- Stack pack bag with lazy jacks
- Two Lewmar 55 self-tailing winches
- Two Gibb 40RA winches
- Two Lewmar 43 self-tailing winches
- Lewmar 30 main sheet winch
- Spinnaker pole
- Keel stepped mast
- The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.

## Inventory

- Engine instruments
- Raymarine Pathfinder SL70 radar at chart table
- Raytheon Raydome mounted on mast
- Standard Horizon GX2200E VHF radio with AIS, GPS at chart table
- Raymarine hybrid touch chart plotter at chart table
- Raymarine RC400 hand held GPS chart plotter
- Magellan GPS320 hand held GPS
- Autohelm ST5000 autopilot
- Raymarine i60 wind speed and direction in cockpit
- Raymarine i50 depth in cockpit
- Raymarine i50 log in cockpit
- Technika TV and DVD player in saloon
- Clock and barometer
- Pioneer CD, radio with speakers
- Hand held torch
- Plastimo helm compass
- Wheel steering
- Port and starboard seating with Iroko finish
- Starboard and aft cockpit lockers including gas locker
- Gas hose replacement 2024
- Engine access hatch in cockpit sole
- Treadmaster cockpit sole
- Stainless steel pulpit and pushpit
- Alloy stanchions with twin guard wires
- Port and starboard gates
- Stainless steel granny bars at mast
- Four new Lewmar deck hatches 2015
- Eight new grey tinted acrylic portlights 2015
- Treadmaster deck panels
- Quick electric anchor windlass with hand held control
- Double bow roller
- 45lb CQR anchor with 50m of 8mm galvanised chain
- Fishermans 25lb anchor
- Outboard bracket
- LED anchor and tricolour lights
- Navigation lights
- Deck floodlight
- Various warps and fenders
- Echomax radar reflector
- Two horseshoe lifebuoys with lights
- Manual and electric bilge pumps
- Gas alarm
- Carbon monoxide alarm
- Smoke alarm
- Fire blanket
- Emergency tiller
- This Oyster 435, hull number 15, is one of a very limited number designed and built with a coachroof rather than the deck saloon design of other Oyster Yachts. Design option at build of a retrousee stern. as with 'Promise' or with a counter stern.
- Oyster Yachts launched 64 Oyster 435's in a 12 year production run from 1983 to 1995 and at one time was marketed as an Oyster 42.
- 'Promise' has been very lightly sailed in past few years.
- Hull last antifouled, polished and new anodes fitted October 2024.
- 2021, Perkins 4.108 engine removed and professionally rebuilt.
- The following work was carried out,
- Strip engine, check and fit new liners to block, polish crank, overhaul head, rebuild engine using parts listed, test and run.
- Pistons and liners
- Rings oil and filters
- Head set conversion set
- Inlet valves exhaust valves guides springs
- Water pump
- Front seal and rear seal
- Starter motor overhauled
- Repair and check cooler
- Injectors overhaul
- fuel pump overhaul
- 2021 prior to engine being re-fitted, engine room was painted and new soundproofing installed
- Warm air cabin heating hoses and exhaust are fitted but heater unit was removed as did not operate. A new unit could easily be fitted
- The following instruments no longer function but have been left in place to avoid unsightly and unnecessary holes at the chart table.
- B&G Hecta Hornet depth
- B&G Hornet log
- Kelvin Hughes Husun 55 VHF radio
- Sentinel alarm panel

## Photos

- Oyster 435: blue-striped white hull afloat alongside a pontoon, sail cover on boom and lifebuoy on rail: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-port-side-white-hull-blue-2-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: cockpit looking forward from the wheel, teak-style seats and open engine hatch in the sole: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-cockpit-forward-past-wheel-binnacle-3-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: saloon with L-shaped settee, wooden table, wood floor and galley sink in the foreground: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-saloon-shaped-settee-wooden-table-4-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: cockpit with wheel and binnacle compass, grey sole panels and winches on the coamings: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-cockpit-wheel-binnacle-compass-grey-5-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: saloon looking forward, settees either side of a central wooden table, TV on bulkhead: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-saloon-forward-between-pale-settees-6-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: saloon settee and table with galley sink in the foreground, sunlight through the deck hatch: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-saloon-shaped-settee-dining-table-7-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: pale grey upholstered settee with patterned cushion beside a varnished wooden saloon table: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-shaped-settee-wooden-table-drawers-8-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: close view of newly upholstered grey saloon settee with wood trim and cushions: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-recently-upholstered-grey-settee-9-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: saloon looking aft to the companionway steps, thistle cushions on grey settees: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-saloon-aft-companionway-steps-thistle-10-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: varnished wooden saloon floor with access hatches, leading forward past the table: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-saloon-wood-floor-lifting-hatches-11-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: wood-lined saloon ceiling with deck hatch, wooden pillar and mast support: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-wood-lined-saloon-ceiling-deck-12-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: brokerage graphic advertising nationwide delivery: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-brokerage-graphic-advertising-nationwide-13-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: view up the mast through an open deck hatch with wooden frame: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-opening-deck-hatch-mast-furled-14-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: forward cabin V berth with white upholstery and infill fitted, wood-panelled sides: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-forward-cabin-berth-infill-fitted-15-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: upper bunk with blue lining and a welcome flag bearing the name Promise: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-lower-bunk-two-tier-cabin-16-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: bunk cabin berth with portlight and bedding wrapped on the mattress: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-upper-bunk-portlight-bedding-wrapped-17-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: heads with red vanity unit, white basin, mirror and shower mixer on the wall: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-heads-red-vanity-unit-white-18-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: heads compartment showing red vanity with basin beside the sea toilet: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-heads-red-vanity-basin-manual-19-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: saloon seen from the chart table, with settees, table and overhead hatch: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-saloon-chart-table-settees-central-20-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: chart table with swivel seat and electronics, radios and plotter on the panel: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-chart-table-swivel-seat-chart-21-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: forward-facing chart table with instruments above and drawers below: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-forward-facing-chart-table-instrument-22-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: chart table and swivel seat beside the bunk cabin doorway and companionway: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-chart-table-swivel-seat-beside-23-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: aft double cabin berth with pillows, wood panelling and drawers alongside: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-aft-double-cabin-berth-pillows-24-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: aft cabin vanity unit with basin set in a tiled top and cupboard below: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-vanity-unit-basin-mosaic-tiled-25-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: galley with tiled worktop, gas stove with oven and stainless sinks along the side: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-galley-gas-stove-oven-tiled-26-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: galley with double stainless sinks, tiled worktops and oven set in wood cabinetry: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-galley-double-stainless-sinks-oven-27-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: oval wooden doorway leading aft from the galley towards a storage area: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-arched-doorway-aft-leading-storage-28-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: rebuilt blue diesel engine in its compartment with new soundproofing: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-rebuilt-blue-diesel-engine-soundproofed-29-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: aft storage area with yellow hose and gear stowed beside the engine access: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-aft-storage-area-hoses-gear-30-1600.webp
- Oyster 435: companionway steps between galley and chart table, oval doorways to aft cabins: https://photos.yachts.co/listing-photos/oyster-435-8418/oyster-435-companionway-steps-galley-left-arched-31-1600.webp

Updated 2026-10-26. Prices and availability can change; please confirm with the broker.

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