Selene 56

Summary

Best Suited For

• Bluewater Cruising

  From the published figures: trawler

• Liveaboard

  From the published figures: LOA 19.05 m · 3 cabins · 2 heads · fresh water 1514 L

Tags are derived from certified class, length, sail area, accommodation and tankage using the criteria described on the Sources page; an editor may add or remove one.

Speed, Power & Tanks

What the builder publishes about how fast, how strong and how much the boat carries.

Dimensions

LOA

62.5 ft (19.05 m)

Hull length

58.2 ft (17.75 m)

LWL

54.3 ft (16.56 m)

Beam

16.7 ft (5.08 m)

Draft (min)

5.7 ft (1.75 m)

Draft (max)

—

Air draft

26.2 ft (8 m)

Displacement

98,502 lb (44,680 kg)

Ballast

—

Cabins

3

Heads

2

Berths

—

Performance

Maximum speed

11.5 kn

Cruising speed

9 kn

Range

—

Guests

—

Crew

—

Engine and Tanks

Engine

—

Engine count

—

Engine manufacturer

—

Propulsion type

—

Fuel capacity

1,500 gal (5,678 L)

Fresh water capacity

400 gal (1,514 L)

Black water capacity

150 gal (568 L)

Construction

Hull material

—

Deck material

—

Rudder type

—

Steering wheels

—

Builder's Own Figures

Grey water capacity

60 USG

Speed (knots), page header

12

Length on deck

55′-6″ ( 16.92 M )

Fuel capacity

1,500 USG

Air draft / bridge clearance

bridge clearance mast up: 26′-3″ ( 8.00 m ); bridge clearance mast down: 15′-8″( 4.78 m ); bridge clearance radar arch up: 17′-9″ ( 5.41 m ); bridge clearance radar arch down: 14′-7″ ( 4.45 m )

Power (HP), page header

405

Ballast

7,000 Lbs

Unit basis

fresh water converted from US gallons; fuel converted from US gallons; holding tank converted from US gallons

Displacement basis

full load, as printed (109,800 Lbs ( 44.68 Tons ))

Draft basis

to keel bottom

Layouts & Drawings

4 drawings from the builder's page: general arrangement, sail plan, profile.

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  draw3-2 — Selene Yachts

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About Selene Yachts

Premium production

Long-range trawler and explorer-yacht builder founded by Howard Chen in 1998, building in its own yard at Zhuhai, China — Classic Explorer and Voyager trawlers from 12.7 metres, Ocean Explorers to 30 metres, the faster Artemis line and the 39-metre Selene 128.

Selene is a division of the Selene Yachts Group, founded in 1998. The name goes back to 1970, when the Taiwanese architect Da-Hong Wang designed a memorial to the Apollo 11 moon landing and called it Selene, after the Greek goddess of the moon; years later Howard Chen studied under him at the School of Architecture of Tunghai University and, learning of the memorial, gave the name to his new line of yachts. The first shipyard opened in Dongguan, China, in 1998 — the historic headquarters is still in Hou-Jie, a town known for high-end furniture whose woods, veneers, granite and skilled labour suited yacht interiors — and the first yacht reached the United States in 1999. Since 2006 the company has had its own stainless-steel workshop. In 2008 it opened a second yard at Zhuhai near Macau, which Howard Chen landscaped himself, with two workshops of about 150,000 square feet, a 32,000-square-foot warehouse and four 100-ton cranes. For years the smaller yachts were built in Dongguan and the larger in Zhuhai; in 2017 the molds and tooling were moved, and from 2018 all boats are built at Zhuhai, which the company says can produce up to a hundred yachts a year. Over some twenty years Selene has built almost 400 yachts from 38 to 103 feet.

The Selene Yachts Range

Every model Selene Yachts publishes, by length — where this one sits in the range.

1. Selene 64 Ocean Explorer68.8 ft
2. Selene 6065.1 ft
3. Selene 60 Ocean Explorer65.1 ft
4. Selene 5863.6 ft
5. Selene 56· this model62.5 ft
6. Selene 5459.8 ft
7. Selene 50 Voyager Sedan53.9 ft
8. Selene 4951.8 ft
9. Artemis 4848.6 ft

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