Selene / Selene 60 Ocean Explorer
The Selene 60 Ocean Explorer is a remarkable yacht designed to traverse the oceans with ease while providing unparalleled comfort and luxury. As a part of Selene’s distinguished Explorer series, this yacht is crafted for those who seek the thrill of adventure without compromising on style and elegance. With a length of 19.5 meters, this yacht is meticulously designed to offer spacious interiors, making it an ideal choice for extended cruising. The interior layout is both practical and luxurious, providing ample space for up to six guests in three well-appointed cabins, each with en-suite facilities. The main salon is a testament to refined living, offering panoramic views and a cozy atmosphere for relaxation or entertaining. The hull is constructed from high-quality GRP, ensuring durability and stability even in challenging sea conditions. Powered by twin John Deere 6090SFM85 engines, the Selene 60 Ocean Explorer achieves a cruising speed of 9 knots and a top speed of 12 knots, making it efficient for long-distance voyages with a range of approximately 2,000 nautical miles. The yacht’s engineering and design are overseen by the renowned Howard Chen and his team, ensuring every detail meets the highest standards of craftsmanship. The exterior exudes a classic explorer style, with a spacious flybridge and an aft deck perfect for alfresco dining or sunbathing. This yacht is truly a masterpiece for those who desire to explore the world’s oceans in unmatched style and comfort.
Length
19.5M
Beam
5.3M
Draft
1.7M
Day Guests
12
Sleeping
6
Cabin
3
Crew
2
Cruise Speed
9KT
Max Speed
12KT
Fuel
7500L
Range
2000NM
Engine
2 x John Deere 6090SFM85
Option 1
None
Option 2
None
Naval
Howard Chen
Exterior
Howard Chen
Interior
Howard Chen
New Starting From
€2,200,000
High Price Brokerage
€1,800,000
Low Price Brokerage
€1,500,000
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She is not fast, and she never pretends to be.
Twin John Deere 6090SFM85 engines settle the Selene 60 Ocean Explorer into a 9 knot cruise, with 12 knots available when the moment calls for it. The real number that matters is the one most owners never ask about at the brokers: a 2,000 nautical mile range, drawn from 7,500 litres of fuel carried low and amidships for stability. That is enough to cross an ocean section without a second thought about the next fuel dock. A 1.7 metre draught keeps her out of trouble in shallow anchorages that keep larger explorer yachts offshore, trading outright speed for the kind of range and access that long range cruising actually demands.
Her lines read as working, not decorative.
Howard Chen drew the Selene 60 Ocean Explorer’s profile around function first, and the result is unmistakably an explorer rather than a coastal cruiser dressed up for photographs. A GRP hull keeps weight down without sacrificing the stiffness a long range yacht needs offshore, and the flybridge sits high enough to clear following seas while still offering real living space above deck. Aft, a wide open deck handles dining and lounging with equal ease, shaded enough for warmer latitudes and sheltered enough for cooler ones. Nothing about the exterior is there purely to impress at the dock. It is there to work, voyage after voyage.
Three cabins, six guests, and not one compromise between them.
The owner’s cabin takes the full beam amidships, the steadiest point on any hull, with en suite facilities finished in warm, practical materials rather than anything that will not survive a long passage. Two further guest cabins, each with their own en suite, complete an accommodation plan built for real cruising rather than weekend charter. The main salon runs wide and bright, with panoramic glazing that keeps the horizon in view from the moment guests step below. Two crew live and work entirely separately, in quarters set apart from the guest areas, so the boundary between owner’s time and operational life never blurs.
Life aboard the Selene 60 Ocean Explorer happens as much outside as in.
The flybridge is the yacht’s second saloon, open to the air and large enough for genuine entertaining rather than a single bench seat bolted on as an afterthought. Below it, the aft deck takes over for shaded dining and slower afternoons, close enough to the water to feel connected to it. Twelve guests can gather comfortably across these day spaces, well beyond the six who sleep aboard, which makes her as capable at anchor with friends as she is underway with family. The layout rewards an owner who actually uses a yacht rather than one who simply owns it.
Autonomy, not speed, is the real currency of an explorer yacht.
At her 9 knot cruise, the Selene 60 Ocean Explorer carries enough fuel for 2,000 nautical miles before she needs to see a dock again, a figure that opens genuinely remote cruising grounds to an owner without a support vessel trailing behind. Jet-Tern Marine’s engineering department, working from Howard Chen’s naval architecture, built the hull and systems around exactly this brief: dependable systems, efficient running and a seaworthy platform rather than a yacht optimised for marina photographs. For a buyer drawn to distance cruising, somewhere the Mediterranean season does not reach, that range is the entire point of the purchase.
Length
19.5M
Beam
5.3M
Draft
1.7M
Guests
6
Cabins
3
Cruise Speed
9Kt
Max Speed
12Kt
Length
19.3M
Beam
5.4M
Draft
1.7M
Guests
6
Cabins
3
Cruise Speed
10Kt
Max Speed
13Kt
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