Luxury cruiserr

I pored over these drawings looking for nits to pick. It's a difficult task. This boat is big and laid out for uncompromised comfort. You can choose from a layout featuring three double-berth staterooms or a layout with five staterooms including two double-berth staterooms. If you are contemplating a paid hand or two you would want the five-stateroom layout. Suffice it to say, you will be comfy in either. Big spaces, copious lockers, huge galley, three heads, what's not to like?

Well, since you asked, take a look at that rounded dinette. I know they look sexy on paper, but try and find a spot to stretch out and you just end up ooching around the entire seat area until you drop out on the floor at the other end. If you are going to entertain six guests with some movies why have the TV on the starboard side so only the two people in the Streisand chairs can see the TV set? And what about an engine room? This layout gives all its volume over to accommodations and gives machinery space short shrift. I suppose you could just go ashore and stay at the Negresco while they take the boat apart to get at the machinery.

I really do like the separate companionway for the aft cabin. These are good layouts. I want my Montrachet at 58 degrees damn it, not 59 degrees!

The hull shape is pretty normal, with no surprises. In plan view the ends look on the full side, but that just increases the working room on deck. The D/L is 188 based upon an optimistic displacement of 70,550 pounds. Draft is 8 feet, 6 inches and the keel is a fin-and-bulb type quite small in plan form. There is the option of a 6-foot, 6-inch keel. The rudder is deep and hung on a full-length skeg.

The deck design shows a big center cockpit broken down into two spaces. There is room aft for two wheels. The dual mainsheet winches are located just off centerline between the two wheels. Forward of the steering area is the rest of the cockpit with a nice drop-leaf table and plenty of room for lounging. I'm sure all the winches are powered.

Forward of the sculpted raised house there is a wedgelike house extension and a deck-access anchor well. The extension looks good and helps the eye to make the transition to the high house. It's a very handsome boat but perhaps a bit heavy on the sculpted styling for my conservative eye.

The rig is a three-spreader sloop with staysail. There are fore and aft lower shrouds shown on one sailplan and aft lowers with a babystay shown on the other. It might be easier to drag your genoa around one babystay rather than two forward lowers. The SA/D is 17.28. The headsails are on Harken hydraulic furlers. Note the amount of rake designed into this rig.

If you feel lazy and don't want to sail, you can push your Oyster 62 along at an easy 9.5 knots with a 225-horsepower Perkins-Sabre turbocharged diesel driving a 3-bladed Max prop. Three hundred gallons of fuel should get you there and 264 gallons of water will make plenty of ice.

I would hope all your troubles would disappear while cruising this beauty.