Description
Step aboard timeless elegance with this 1987 Californian 55 Motor Yacht, a classic blend of craftsmanship, comfort, and performance. Built with the renowned quality of Californian Yachts, this vessel offers generous living spaces, reliable engineering, and the charm of a true motor yacht.
- Spacious Layout: Expansive salon, full galley, and multiple staterooms designed for extended cruising or entertaining.
- Performance & Reliability: Twin diesel engines deliver smooth power and dependable handling.
- Classic Styling: Rich wood finishes and thoughtful design details showcase the yacht’s heritage.
- Lifestyle Ready: Perfect for coastal voyages, weekend getaways, or liveaboard comfort.
This yacht represents not just a vessel, but an opportunity to embrace the motor yacht lifestyle with a proven design that has stood the test of time.
Vessel Walk through
Comfortable and spacious 3-stateroom layout, each cabin with its own head.
Below decks and full forward is a guest cabin with upper and lower berths to port. Moving aft and to starboard is a head with sink, shower stall and electric head. The 2 other staterooms are situated past the galley/dinette and main salon, further aft and below the aft deck.
Aft quarters are accessed through a port stairway in the main salon, to a hallway that leads to a starboard side guest cabin. To port directly across this stateroom is a separate head, shower stall and sink.
The owners’ stateroom is aft with a queen centerline berth, generous storage and closets, vanity, mirrored wall and en-suite head with sink, electric toilet and tub/shower combo. Access to the aft cockpit from the owner’s stateroom is through a port side companionway.
There is one Sony television with DVD and a sound system by Sony
Headroom 6’4”
Main salon
- Very large main salon fully carpeted
- Large L-shaped couch to starboard side with pullouts to convert to sleeping area
- Marine Aire System air-conditioning
- Wood cabinets with laminate counters
- Accordion shades on windows
- Compass
Galley
- Galley located to starboard side
- Double SS sink
- Whirlaway garbage disposal, 2018
- Princess electric range and oven
- LG microwave oven
- Black and Decker toaster oven
- Built-in counter blender station
- Magic chef full-size refrigerator with deep freezer rebuilt in 2020
- Coffee maker over corner storage
- Galley dinette seating to port side, U-shaped, seats approximately six
- Dinette converts to sleeping area
- Plentiful storage under dinette seating
Master Stateroom
- Master Stateroom
- Full beam primary stateroom
- Queen sized island bed
- Full length hanging locker
- Storage to port side
- Starboard side vanity with seating and storage
- Accordion blinds
- En suite full head located to starboard side with separate shower with tub basin
- Full length mirror
- Marine Aire Systems AC
- Track lighting
- Hidden fluorescent strip lighting
- Access to aft deck located on port side
Guest Stateroom #1
- Forward v-berth with bunk beds on port side
- Hanging locker
- Marine Aire Systems AC, reverse cycle 21,000BTUs
- Chain locker access
- En suite full head with electric flush, sink and separate shower
Guest Stateroom #2
- Single berth converts to full-size
- Half hanging locker
- Full length mirror
Third guest head located in passageway, complete with electric head, sink and separate shower
Deck
- Fly bridge and cockpit
- (2) 20’ fishing outriggers with quick-release hardware (2019)
- Flybridge seating for 10
- Winch – Rule V33(R) for davit
- Bridge and sundeck canvas with 40mil Strataglass (stored below decks when not in use, 2013)
- Sundeck table, settee, four chairs, and sofa
- Cockpit Cooler – Ice Station Zero fish cooler with 48” scale on wood seat
- 60” cold plate storage cooler box at sundeck with temperature gauge, plumbed to engine room
- Teak cabinets at sundeck
- Swim ladder stored in lazarette
- Cockpit shower
- Muir 3,000 windlass, original to boat
- 50lb. sand anchor with 400’ of 3/8” chain
- SS grapple rock anchor with chain
- Danforth stern anchor stored in lazarette with 200’ 5/8” nylon rode
Electronics and helm
- Sitex CDF500 cybernet depth sounder
- Robertson AP1000DL autopilot
- Ritchie compass
- Garmin 526S GPS and chart plotter
- Uniden UM385 class D VHF marine radio 3/23
- Raytheon Ray Marine SL70 radar
- Radar detector
- XM satellite radio
- Interior and exterior bridge and sundeck speakers
Electrical
- Shore power inlet – 110V AV with 50-amp service
- Shore power 20’ 50amp with Y-yolk
- Dytec 2000-watt inverter
- Electrical circuit: 110V and 12V
- Engine batteries DELCO L 8D 1125 AR 27C #3
- Start batteries DHL #2
Engine Details & Mechanical Equipment
- Direct drive
- 4-blade 28” bronze propeller
- Electric bilge pump with upgraded switches (2023), three total, 1 in bow, 1 midship and 1 aft
- Automatic fire extinguishing system in engine room
- Engine room insulation upgraded 2021
- Manual bilge pump
- Electric head, Y-valve for overboard or holding tank
- Electric waste macerator ejector pump (2017)
- Manual waste pump
- Battery charger 110-volt, original to boat
- Generator original to boat, rebuilt in 2023, 5701 hours
- Alternators rebuilt February 2023
- Marine Systems air-conditioning reverse-cycle 21000BTU, heating and A/C, 3 units
- GE hot water heater, electric and engine, ~20gallons
- Watermaker HRO 36 GPH with U.V. treatment
- Onan 15kw generator, 5701 hours in March 2023
- Sea water strainers
- 24L pressure tank
- Electric head motors and joker valves and vent plumbing
- Three fuel tanks: aft under fishing cockpit 340 gallons, main under primary stateroom bed 235 gallons, forward tank under floor of second stateroom 305 gallons
