{"id":46148,"date":"2026-09-16T19:07:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T19:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=46148"},"modified":"2026-09-16T19:08:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T19:08:41","slug":"oyster-launches-new-luxury-c60-cruising-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2026\/09\/oyster-launches-new-luxury-c60-cruising-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Oyster Launches New Luxury C60 Cruising Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s a news blast that will set the multihull alight. Oyster Yachts, the respected builder of luxury, blue water monohulls is launching a new 60-foot cruising catamaran. \u00a0The C60 was designed by the French firm Berret-Racoupeau which has thirty years behind them designing multihulls of all types.<\/p>\n

Oyster\u2019s reputation for seaworthy, long-haul monohulls is rock solid. For 50 years, the British builder has been a leader in the offshore category. Oysters have sailed more than 20 million blue water miles and the brand has completed at least 100 circumnavigations.<\/p>\n

The combined experience from the designers and builder in the creation of the C60 placed its primary emphasis on offshore sailing safety, comfort and reliability. The hulls have been given high topsides to keep decks and crew dry. The bridge-deck has a 39-inch clearance to soften or eliminate wave slapping in a choppy sea.<\/p>\n

The cabin has a low profile to keep weight low and inhibit the pitch and yaw motions that make cruising-cat sailing different from monohulls. And, the design has been given a sensible double-headsail rig that allows the crew to power up and power down the sail plan without having to go on the foredeck.<\/p>\n

Oyster made the decision to go with fixed keels instead of daggerboards and this was done for two reasons. Frist, fixed keels have no moving parts or delicate shapes that can break or jam. And second, fixed keels mean the boat can dry out on the hard safely, a necessity on occasion when cruising in the third world where cranes and Travel Lifts are scarce.<\/p>\n

The decision to add a flybridge to the cabin top would have been carefully considered since is does add weight aloft and requires a top of some kind that in turn raises the boom to a level most mortals will not be able to scale. In the end the addition of that large social space and the ability to sail he boat with great visibility won the day.<\/p>\n

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In a cat of this size with 30-feet of beam, large social and living areas are a given. Oyster has made the most of it with the large area on the flybridge, the cockpit and saloon that open up via sliding doors into one vast area and with the twin fold-down stern platforms that create a spacious area for sunning or launching water toys.<\/p>\n

A third outdoor space on the fore deck is accessed via a door at the front of the saloon and features a huge C-shaped lounge with a table.\u00a0 This will be a favorite getaway for the younger generation and a fine place in the late afternoon for sundowners.<\/p>\n

Oyster knows that some of their owners sail boats of this size with a crew, usually a couple with one being the captain and the other the cook and steward. Yet many owners prefer to sail without crew and can manage the boat ably by themselves.
\nTo accommodate both options, they offer the C60 with the galley either up in the saloon for family living or down in the middle of the port hull.\u00a0 In the galley-up option the middle of the port hull becomes another double cabin. The crew\u2019s cabin is aft in the port hull so in the galley-down version the crew and galley are adjacent.<\/p>\n

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The starboard hull has the master cabin aft and a guest cabin forward in the bow. These each have an ensuite head and shower.<\/p>\n

No small part of Oyster\u2019s reputation is the bespoke nature of their boats that are built on a semi-custom basis for discerning clients. Plus, the quality of the craftsmanship is legendary.\u00a0 The new 60, while revolutionary for this monohull builder, offers the Oyster family something new that will appeal to those with their eyes firmly on the horizon.<\/p>\n

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Read more here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s a news blast that will set the multihull alight. Oyster Yachts, the respected builder of luxury, blue water monohulls is launching a new 60-foot cruising catamaran. \u00a0The C60 was designed by the French firm Berret-Racoupeau which has thirty years behind them designing multihulls of all types. Oyster\u2019s reputation for seaworthy, long-haul monohulls is rock solid. For 50 years, the British builder has been a leader in the offshore category. Oysters have sailed more than 20 million blue water miles and the brand has completed at least 100 circumnavigations. The combined experience from the designers and builder in the creation of the C60 placed its primary emphasis on offshore sailing safety, comfort and reliability. The hulls have been given high topsides to keep decks and crew dry. The bridge-deck has a 39-inch clearance to soften or eliminate wave slapping in a choppy sea. The cabin has a low profile to keep weight low and inhibit the pitch and yaw motions that make cruising-cat sailing different from monohulls. And, the design has been given a sensible double-headsail rig that allows the crew to power up and power down the sail plan without having to go on the foredeck. Oyster made the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1,1875],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46153,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46148\/revisions\/46153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}