Price Reduction – 2019 Ocean Explorer 60

German Frers-designed performance cruising catamaran with Finnish build, makes the Ocean Explorer 60 from Ocean Quality Systems the ultimate in engineering, quality and finish.

FURTHER BROKER’S COMMENTS:

Delivered in 2019 as hull No.3 in the German Frers-designed Ocean Explorer 60 line of semi-customs performance cruising catamarans from Jakobstad-based Ocean Quality Systems (OQS), EASTER WITCH has had just two private owners since new and has benefitted from professional crew since build.

Based in Palma de Mallorca during her first ownership, she was acquired by her current owner in Mallorca in the Spring of 2023 and lightly refitted in Palma before being shipped across the Atlantic to her new home in Fort Lauderdale for the beginning of the 2024 season. Following a further program of refit, she has been lightly used for local cruising to the Bahamas and Caribbean and is now offered for sale as her owners are building a larger Ocean Explorer catamaran.

Her specification highlights include:
• Owner’s cabin layout finished in light oak with three ensuite double cabins plus captain/crew cabin.
• E-glass vacuum-infused hull construction with carbon and titanium reinforced deckhouse
• Watertight bulkheads and bow crashboxes
• Curved carbon fibre daggerboards
• Retractable carbon fibre rudders
• Twin Yanmar 4JH80 engines with Saildrive gearboxes and FlexoFold propellers
• MAXPower hydraulic retractable bowthruster
• Yacht Controller Maximo remote control for control of engines, bow thruster and anchor windlass
• Exit Engineering twin carbon fibre helm wheels
• Siemens NMEA Canbus digital switching system
• Mastervolt Li-ion service batteries
• Mastervolt battery chargers and inverter
• Fischer Panda 12kw generator with complete unused spare generator
• 220vAC 50Hz systems plus newly installed 110vAV 60Hz shorepower system
• 18m2 solar panel array
• Schenker 150lph 24vDC reverse-osmosis watermaker
• B&G H5000 instrument system with Zeus3 plotters, Broadband radar, AIS transceiver and autopilot
• Iridium satellite phone
• Starlink satellite communications
• Gas stove with electric oven and microwave
• Dishwasher
• Multiple refrigeration and freezer options
• Icemaker
• Washing machine
• Frigomar 70,000BTU reverse-cycle air-conditioning system
• Saloon TV on power lift
• Lorima carbon fibre rotating mast and boom
• Future Fibre EcSix composite standing rigging
• Rigging Projects hydraulic mainsheet traveller
• Reckmann hydraulic jib furler
• KT and Facnor furlers for flying sails
• Harken electric winch package
• North Sails 3Di sail wardrobe plus original 3Dl sails
• Custom carbon davits with ABD aluminium console RIB tender

RECENT REFIT HISTORY:

2025
• New retractable bow thruster MAXpower 150 VIP hydraulic retractable bowthruster
• New upgraded Yacht controller Maximo with variable throttle.
• New antifouling
• New Raw water air condition pump (old has been rebuilt to be a spare)
• New closed circuit circulation pump for air-conditioning. (old has been rebuilt to be a spare)
• Brand new like-for-like replacement generator in box

2024
• All new Future Fibre EcSix composite standing rigging.
• New Sails, North 3DI raw. Main, A2, Easy furl, J0, J2, J3. (Original 3DL ocean sails still available and in good condition. Owner just wanted lighter sails)
• New custom-made Rigging Projects traveller track and 8t X-track traveller car. Spec for higher loads.
• 2x new KZ 10t furlers with locks and fittings. For furling sails on sprit and J3.
• All new running rigging from Rigging Projects.
• New painted non-skid deck.
• Paint correction and ceramic coated mast, boom and coach roof.
• New wind masthead unit.
• New Yanmar electronic engine throttles
• New exterior cushions.

2023
• New mechanical steering system designed and fitted by Ocean Explorer in Mallorca.
• Refitted electric for US standard 110 Volt outlets and 50 amp US shore connection by Ocean explorer in Mallorca. Can be reversed back to 220vAC 50Hz quite easily
• Starlink added

MANUFACTURER’S COMMENTS:

In order to be called a true luxury performance offshore cruising catamaran, the width of the OE60’s hull has been carefully balanced for performance and splendid liveaboard comfort. Displacement, hull shape, and sail power are the key design features of an OE. The advanced hydrodynamic shape of the hull, designed by world-renowned naval architect Germán Frers, utilizes the optimal length to beam ratio to minimize the wetted surface and deliver true performance. Instead of opting for fixed keels, a daggerboard configuration was chosen based on the advantages of providing lift, and lateral resistance versus drag. This design is also more efficient by providing outstanding upwind performance with the daggerboards down, and best performance with daggerboards up in a reaching or running sailing angle. Another advantage with the daggerboards up is that the draught is less than 80 cm, allowing you to sail and anchor in shallow waters unreachable to most.

You can’t talk high-performance sailing without talking about construction. Each yacht utilizes superior design, advanced engineering, and only the finest composite materials critical for the optimum strength to weight ratio. In keeping with the highest traditions of Finnish yacht building, each Ocean Explorer is handcrafted by an expert team of generational craftspeople.

Essential to any luxury yacht is the comfort, flow, utilization of space, and natural light of the interior design. With 360-degree vistas, superb ergonomics, and relaxing spaces, each interior is beautifully appointed, and custom finished to each owners’ personal tastes.

MANUFACTURER’S BACKGROUND:

“Founded in the Jakobstad-Pietarsaari region, in Finland, Ocean Explorer comes from a long history of luxury international boat builders coming together to form OQS ‘Ocean Quality Systems’. The same craftsmen who build the high-performance, luxury yachts of the same region, use their skills and close attention to detail to create the Ocean Explorer catamaran.

Internationally acclaimed Naval Architect, Germán Frers, known for his beautiful and efficient designs, along with the knowledgeable Ocean Explorer team design and build every yacht with you at the very heart of it, creating a platform to enable you to take the next step, your next adventure. All from the comfort and safety of your expertly designed yacht, so you can sail the world without compromise.

The Ocean Explorer is your high performance, luxury yacht, custom designed for pure sailing pleasure and built to navigate and explore unchartered territory.”

PRESS REVIEW:

“…Frers may be pretty well known for drawing elegant monohulls. What happens when he does a multihull?… Ocean Explorer are based right next door to Swan and Baltic in Jackobstad… This Ocean Explorer is as close as you can get to a Swan in a catamaran; it’s pretty special…”

“…Immediately noticeable from a monosailer point of view is how nice it will be to stand right here in the quarters with full vision for sailing… You can see through to the opposite bow from the hull thanks to the vision straight through that coachroof with the amount of glass in there… A very beamy design, but also elegant and the freeboard is relatively low. It’s a Frers so it’s a sailor’s boat!.. I’m told by the skipper that it is very easy for two people to manage this boat for long distance sailing…”

“…This one is a charter layout and is laid out accordingly with a five cabin layout. Just look at how beautifully it has been finished and the wow effect of her light open interior. It really is to coin an overused phrase, panoramic vision when you sit down in the saloon… The large galley is a very nice place to stand and work at. The nav station in the alcove besides the mast has excellent forward vision. The teak decks continue inside and there is a proper watertight door to the forward cockpit which is for the halyards and a nice seat for maintaining watch. It’a a cracking boat. A real sailor’s catamaran!…A very nice clean Lorimar rig, spreaderless and unusually for a catamaran of this size, a boom vang…”

“…It really is Swan-type finish quality throughout the boat… A very calming boat to be aboard… I think it’s all the natural light.. I could certainly get used to this…”

Toby Hodges – Yachting World – Transcribed from First Look Walkaround Video of OE60 – Published May 2018

2019 Ocean Explorer 60 ‘EASTER WITCH’ for sale – Now asking US$3,950,000 ex VAT – full details here

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