Oyster Marine 37 Heritage
Masthead Sloop · Fin With Rudder On Skeg · 1984–1988
A Holman & Pye designed masthead sloop built for offshore stability with a skeg-mounted rudder and conservative sail plan
Designed by Holman, Pye & Kim Holman.
- LOA
- Beam
- Draft (max)
- Displacement
- Ballast
- Hull type
- Fin With Rudder On Skeg
See her sail
The Oyster Marine 37 Heritage, on the water
The fleet's own footage — the truest look at how she really moves.
Footage from Sailing Florence
Is it for you?
Character
Where this design lands on the numbers a shopper trusts — read straight from her own ratios.
Her moderate displacement on a moderate beam gives 25 — a moderate, middle-of-the-road motion.
1.97 — just under the 2.0 offshore line; her beam is modest for her weight.
213 — moderately heavy for her waterline, a balanced cruising weight.
16.4 — moderate power for her weight; steady, all-round performance.
41% of her weight is ballast — moderately stiff, a middle-of-the-road stability.
A capable cruiser that sits just inside the offshore line — coastal work with real passages in her.
The living fleet
Sailed by the fleet
The channels sailing this model, and where they were last seen.
Seen 33 times across one channel of the fleet.
On the water
The Oyster Marine 37 Heritage on video
What broke, what changed
Gear aboard, as the crews told it
Moments from individual boats of this model that the fleet has filmed — one crew, one piece of kit, one day on the water. Not a review of the class, and not a count of anything.
ReplacedTreadmaster
The sister ship still has original Treadmaster, which the speaker removed from Florence during a refit.
aboard Sailing Florenceseen April 202633:11
FailedIridium
The Iridium Go could not be used for weather forecasts due to a radio silence zone.
aboard Sailing Florenceseen November 202520:57
WorkingB&G
Florence has B&G electronics, similar to a new Oyster yacht.
aboard Sailing Florenceseen April 202635:04
Each line is one crew's account of their own boat. Another Oyster Marine 37 Heritage may be fitted out entirely differently.
The record
Full specifications
The complete reference set — tap any figure to switch between metric and imperial.
Boats like this, on the water
More boats like her, on the water
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The family
Related models
The designs closest to hers — usually the rest of the builder's range, sometimes the same hull sold under another name.
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