Oyster 62 Buyer's Guide
The Oyster 62 on the brokerage market is a Rob Humphreys-designed Deck Saloon performance voyager, the fourth-generation successor to the Oyster 61, with either a four or five cabin layout and up to three head/shower compartments. Ex-charter examples are common, and the charter four-cabin layouts are the more common on the used market, though both are available. Shopping used Oyster 62s means weighing a 70,547-pound hull with a 20,723-pound lead bulb against the equipment and layout each individual boat carries.
Layouts on the Used Market
The standard layout includes a full-width deck saloon with an oval settee and dinette to starboard and nav station to port, three double staterooms sharing two heads forward, a walk-through galley leading to the stern owner’s suite with private fantail egress, and a fifth double with over-and-under bunks. Dick Young’s alternative substituted two ancillary doubles for the extra bodies. On the used market the charter four-cabin version appears more often, with ex-charter boats common, while five-cabin examples remain available for buyers wanting maximum berths.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
Electric winches, bimini, dinghy davits, watermaker, solar, inverter, wind generator, asymmetric spinnaker, bow thruster, cockpit shower, radar, AIS, EPIRB, life raft, and circumnavigation gear are commonly fitted. Air conditioning, heating, gennaker, furling main, freezer, swim platform, teak decks, autopilot, and chartplotter are often seen. The tested boat carried Lewmar 66 electric winches and a Reckman hydraulic furler for the staysail, with around 12 buttons for sail controls in the cockpit, and the auxiliary is a Perkins/Sabre M225Ti 225-horsepower unit.
What to Inspect
Hull fabrication specifies hand lay-up in solid non-cored GRP reinforced with Kevlar below the waterline and isophthalic resin for permeation resistance, with rigidity from fore-and-aft stringers and structural floors. The deck incorporates a balsa core replaced by marine-grade plywood at load-bearing points, and all load-bearing fittings fasten across aluminum backing plates. The hull-to-deck bond uses an inward flange in the topsides. Verify the Kevlar critical-area reinforcement, the balsa-to-plywood transition, and the backing plates, since these are the as-built details rather than reported failures. No documented defect or flooding-path history is recorded for the model.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
Typical markets for the Oyster 62 include Portugal, the United Kingdom, Spain, Jersey, the United States, and Guernsey. For a buyer, the checklist is short and evidence-based: confirm four or five cabin layout against intended use, expect commonly fitted circumnavigation gear and electric winches, inspect the deck core and aluminum backing plates at load-bearing fittings, and check the Perkins/Sabre M225Ti and the 396-gallon fuel and 317-gallon water capacities. The boat is a documented offshore performer with no known systemic issues, best chosen on layout and equipment tier rather than on model-year scarcity.
Price & volume trends
Monthly asking-price and listing-volume trends for the Oyster 62. The line shows the median ask each month; the bars show how many listings appeared.
Monthly breakdown · 5 rows
| Month | Listings | Median ask | Δ vs. last mo. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25 | 1 | $ 658,096 | — |
| Oct 25 | 1 | $ 778,270 | +18.3% |
| Jan 26 | 1 | $ 778,270 | 0.0% |
| Apr 26 | 1 | $ 606,498 | -22.1% |
| Jun 26 | 2 | $ 605,359 | -0.2% |
Where they're listed
Oyster 62 listings appear across 5 countries. Portugal has the most listings with 2 (33.3%), followed by Spain and United Kingdom.
Country view
6 listings · 5 countries| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portugal | $ 778,270 | 2 | 0 | 33.3% |
| Spain | $ 658,096 | 1 | 0 | 16.7% |
| United Kingdom | $ 606,498 | 1 | 0 | 16.7% |
| Guernsey | $ 606,498 | 1 | 1 | 16.7% |
| Jersey | $ 604,221 | 1 | 1 | 16.7% |
Comparable models
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oyster Yachts 56 | 57.33' | $ 572,803 | 45 | 18 |
| Beneteau Oceanis Yacht 62 | 62.56' | $ 1,030,063 | 37 | 10 |
| Oyster Yachts 54 | 53.92' | $ 628,853 | 16 | 4 |
| Oyster 55 | 56.25' | $ 366,245 | 12 | 1 |
| Hallberg-Rassy 62 | 61.94' | $ 861,764 | 8 | 1 |
| Oyster 72 | 74.7' | $ 1,378,815 | 8 | 0 |
| Oyster 625 | 63.55' | $ 2,250,000 | 7 | 1 |
| Oyster 62You are here | — | $ 632,297 | 6 | 2 |