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- Beam: 15' 10''
- Hull Material: Fiberglass
- Max Draft: 7' 4''
- Displacement: 50,200 lb
- Fuel Tank: 1 x 326|gallon
- Fresh Water: 1 x 236|gallon
- Holding: 1 x 64|gallon
- Cabins: 3
- Heads: 2
Alora: German Frers Bluewater Cutter with a Comprehensive 2025 Refit
On Display at the Annapolis Sailboat Show with David Walters Yachts
Alora is a late model Hylas 56, a 2017 model year center cockpit cutter designed by German Frers and built by Queen Long Marine in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Frers, the designer behind generations of Nautor’s Swans and Hallberg-Rassys, gave the 56 a long waterline, a secure cockpit and a large owner’s stateroom aft. Her hull is built solid, with no coring, from hand laid fiberglass and Twaron aramid in vinylester resin, and she carries 20,020 lbs of external lead ballast on a fin keel with a bulb, with her rudder protected by a partial skeg. Cruising World named the Hylas 56 its Best Premium Cruiser Over 55 Feet in the 2011 Boat of the Year awards.
Her rig is a fractional cutter, with a Selden keel stepped mast and electric in mast furling for the main, a Furlex furler for the 115% genoa and a removable inner stay for a hank on staysail. Five of her eight Antal winches are electric, and the windlass, winches and main furling all run from push buttons in the cockpit, so a couple can handle her comfortably. Below are three cabins and two heads, each head with its own shower stall, all finished in varnished teak. For long passages and remote anchorages she carries a Spectra watermaker, a Northern Lights generator, a 1,020 Ah AGM house bank with a wind generator and 3,000 W inverter, an SSB, Cruisair air conditioning and Webasto diesel heat, plus a Side Power bow thruster for tight marinas.
Over the winter of 2024/25 Alora had a thorough refit at Yacht Marin in Marmaris, Turkey. Her black topsides were repainted, the aft deck was refinished in Awlcraft, the hull and deck were polished, and the bottom was sanded smooth and given two coats of Micron 66. The Yanmar and the Northern Lights were serviced, along with every winch, the windlass, all the seacocks and the Furlex, and the fuel tanks were cleaned. She also has a new bimini, dodger, full cockpit enclosure and cockpit cushions, new sheets, halyard and furling lines, and a freshly serviced liferaft. Alora is located in Annapolis, Maryland.
Key Features:
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Alora’s interior is classic Hylas: hand finished teak joinery and teak veneers in a satin varnish, a high gloss teak sole with light inlays, cream synthetic leather upholstery and vinyl covered headliner panels. Tinted saloon windows, Manship stainless steel hatches and sixteen opening ports bring in light and air, and Cruisair air conditioning and a Webasto diesel heater keep her comfortable in any climate.
The companionway leads down from the center cockpit into the saloon, where an L shaped dinette with a large table that seats six sits to port and a settee runs along the starboard side. The nav station is at the aft end of the saloon on the port side, with the main electrical panels and the controls for the ship’s systems. To starboard, the galley lines the passage that leads aft to the owner’s stateroom, which has a centerline double berth, a settee, a vanity and an en suite head with a separate shower to port. Forward of the saloon are two guest cabins: a single to port that converts to a small double, and the forward cabin, with a double berth and its own door to the forward head, which also has a separate shower.
Interior Styling and Additional Features:
MAIN SALOON
The saloon sits amidships under tinted fixed windows, with the dinette to port, a settee opposite and the nav station aft on the port side.
MASTER STATEROOM (AFT)
The owner’s stateroom is aft, reached through the galley passage from the saloon, with a centerline double berth and its own head and shower to port.
Master Head
The owner’s head is en suite on the port side of the stateroom.
GUEST CABIN (FORWARD)
The forward cabin has a double berth and its own door to the forward head, a comfortable cabin for guests or family.
Guest Head
The forward head is on the starboard side, with a door from the forward cabin and, like the owner’s head, a separate shower stall.
GUEST CABIN (PORT)
The second guest cabin is forward of the saloon on the port side, a good spot for crew, a child or an extra guest.
The galley lines the starboard passage between the saloon and the owner’s stateroom, a secure place to cook at sea, with Corian counters, a gimbaled propane stove and two large refrigeration units.
HULL
Hylas builds the 56 hull solid, with no coring, from hand laid fiberglass with alternating layers of Twaron aramid in vinylester resin, stiffened by box section frames and longitudinal stringers. The fin keel ends in a lead bulb and is held by eleven 39 mm stainless steel keel bolts, and the semi balanced rudder hangs on a partial skeg molded into the hull, which protects it in a grounding. Watertight bulkheads close off the forepeak and the aft lazarette.
DECK
The deck is cored fiberglass with molded nonskid, with teak in the cockpit and on the swim platform. Stainless steel rails, stanchions and handrails are all 32 mm tube, and storage is generous, with a forward sail locker, a chain locker, aft deck lockers and a transom lazarette.
COCKPIT
MAST AND RIGGING
SAILS AND WINCHES
ENGINE AND MECHANICAL
The Yanmar sits under the cockpit, where front and side panels open for good access, in a compartment lined with 50 mm sound and heat insulation and protected by a Fireboy system. It drives a four blade Max Prop through a Kanzaki gearbox and a 45 mm stainless steel shaft with a dripless seal.
PLUMBING AND TANKAGE
Fuel is carried in five stainless steel tanks with a transfer manifold, and fresh water in three, topped up by a Spectra watermaker. Both heads have electric toilets and stainless steel holding tanks that pump overboard or out at the dock.
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
AUDIO/VISUAL AND ENTERTAINMENT EQUIPMENT
SAFETY EQUIPMENT
TENDER
BROKER’S COMMENTS
Alora is a late model, Hylas 56 with a full set of passagemaking systems and a 2025 refit that took care of the big cosmetic and maintenance items: paint, canvas, cushions, running rigging and servicing of her engine, generator, winches and seacocks. She comes with a large inventory of spares and tools, detailed plumbing and electrical schematics, and well organized manuals and service records.
This is a one owner yacht, built to the specs of the licensed captains currently operating it.
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