Californian 55 Cockpit Motor Yacht

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