Expert Review, Technical Specifications & Market Analysis
| Feature | Specifications |
|---|---|
| Overall Length | 82' 6" |
| Beam | 21' 6" |
| Draft | 6' 1" |
| Displacement | 164,531 lbs |
| Engines | Twin MAN V12-1650 (2 x 1,650 HP) |
| Fuel Capacity | 2,245 gal |
| Water Capacity | 396 gal |
| Cabins / Heads | 4-5 Cabins / 4-5 Heads |
| Max Speed | 25 knots |
Source: Spec & Photos courtesy of Sunseeker. Specs verified by Tony Smith, USCG 100 Ton Master, on August 27, 2026.
Sunseeker's volume boat under 90 feet. 21' 6" of beam on an 82' 6" hull, 2,245 gallons of fuel and a published maximum of 25 knots, which is the trade the rest of the range does not make.
Part of the Sunseeker Ocean series — see how owners step up through the lineup.
I get asked a lot which Sunseeker is the family boat at this length, and for a while now my answer has been this one. Eighty-two and a half feet with twenty-one and a half feet of beam is a great deal of boat to stand around in, and Sunseeker did not spend that width on speed. Twenty-five knots is the number people react to, and it is the number I would worry about least. If you are buying an eighty-two footer to cover ground in a hurry you should be looking at the Predator side of the range, where the 75 does forty on smaller engines and under two thirds of this boat's weight.
What I actually want you to notice is the accommodation. Every Sunseeker above this one is drawn as cabins plus crew. This one is drawn as cabins: four or five of them, four or five heads. That is a real signal about who the boat was built for, and it is the first question I would put to a dealer: if I am running with a captain, show me on the arrangement drawing for my hull where he sleeps. Do not accept an answer that comes from a brochure photograph, because the four-cabin and five-cabin versions of this boat are not the same interior and the pictures do not all show the same one.
Two more before you get excited. Get observed consumption at your normal cruising rpm written into the sea trial report, with the load stated, because that is the figure that will tell you what the boat costs you in time and range at the speed you actually run. And look hard at the fresh water. Three hundred and ninety-six gallons on a five-cabin boat is not much, and the watermaker is a conversation you want to have at contract rather than at handover.
Photos courtesy of Sunseeker.
The 82 Ocean is an 82' 6" flybridge motoryacht and, together with its Enclosed twin, the widest and heaviest hull Sunseeker builds below the 134 Yacht. Beam is 21' 6", which is close to a quarter of the boat's length. Displacement is 164,531 lbs at half load, and half load is the condition to plan every lift, berth and bridge clearance around.
Tankage is where the boat declares itself: 2,245 gallons of fuel and 396 gallons of fresh water. Draft is 6' 1", quoted as a maximum at full load rather than a light-ship figure. Accommodation is a band rather than a fixed arrangement, four to five cabins and four to five heads, and the 82 Ocean is drawn as cabins where the two 90s further up the class are drawn as cabins plus crew. For a lot of buyers that single line is the most consequential one on the sheet.
Power is twin MAN V12-1650s, 1,650 HP a side, 3,300 HP in total. Maximum speed is 25 knots, the lowest in the current range below 130 feet and tied only with this boat's own Enclosed twin. It is the direct consequence of the width and the tankage above it.
Two numbers tell you what this hull is for. Twin MAN V12-1650s make 3,300 HP between them, and the boat weighs 164,531 lbs at half load. That is roughly 50 lbs of boat for every horsepower, and it returns a published maximum of 25 knots.
Set that against the Predator 75 in the same catalogue: 103,396 lbs on twin V12-1550s, and 40 knots. Sunseeker did not build a slow 82-footer by accident. It built a wide one with 2,245 gallons in it, and 25 knots is what that shape gives back. Every other current Sunseeker under 130 feet publishes a higher maximum than the two 82s.
Maximum speed is the easy half of the performance question. The figure that actually governs how you use the boat is observed consumption at the rpm you will hold, recorded on your own sea trial with the load and the tank state written down beside it. That report is worth more than any brochure line, and the time to ask for it is before you sign rather than after.
Draft is 6' 1" at full load. On a hull this wide that is a genuine planning constraint in shallow cruising grounds, and because the figure already describes the loaded condition there is no margin hiding in it. Check it against your home berth, your regular anchorages and any bar you cross routinely.
The specification publishes four to five cabins and four to five heads. That band is the point. The 82 Ocean is sold as a layout decision rather than a fixed arrangement, and the fifth cabin comes out of volume that is otherwise something else. Decide which version you are buying before you get attached to a photograph, because the images on Sunseeker's own model page do not all show the same interior.
The 21' 6" beam is what makes the choice possible at all. On an 82' 6" hull that is roughly a quarter of the length in width, and it is more beam than several 88-footers on this market carry. Interior volume on a motoryacht comes from beam far more than from length, which is why this boat lives larger than its length suggests and why the 82 feels closer to the 90 inside than the six-foot gap implies.
Crew accommodation is where this boat parts company with the rest of the class. Every Sunseeker from 88' 11" upward is drawn as cabins plus crew. The 82 Ocean is drawn as cabins. If you plan to run the boat yourself, or with help who go home at the end of the day, that is a feature and it is probably why the layout has the flexibility it does. If you plan to carry a captain and a stewardess, have the arrangement drawing for your specific hull show you where they sleep.
Fresh water is 396 gallons. On a five cabin boat that is a real ceiling, and it makes the watermaker a contract conversation rather than a commissioning one.
The 82 Ocean sits at the bottom of Sunseeker's Ocean class and at the wide, heavy end of the whole range. Below it the boats get narrower and faster, the Predator 75 at 40 knots and the 76 Yacht at 32. Above it the 90 Ocean adds six feet of length, two feet of beam and 1,189 gallons of fuel. The Oceans are the cruising boats in a range better known for the fast ones.
Its immediate twin is the 82 Ocean Enclosed, and the honest description of that relationship is that they are the same boat. Length, beam, draft, displacement, engines, fuel, water, cabins, heads and maximum speed are identical to the digit on Sunseeker's own pages. Four of the photographs on the two model pages are the same image file. Choosing between them is a question about weather and about how you use an upper deck, not a question about naval architecture, and anybody selling you a performance difference between the two is inventing it.
Cross-shopped outside the brand, this lands against the Princess Y80 and the Ferretti 800, the British and Italian answers to a similar brief at a similar length. The 82 Ocean's argument in that company is beam and tankage: at 21' 6" it is the widest of the three, and 2,245 gallons is more fuel than the Princess carries. Its weakness in that company is speed, where both of the others are quicker on paper. That is the whole trade, stated plainly.
Buy the 82 Ocean if you want the volume of a 90-footer without the crew that usually arrives with one. Four to five cabins, four to five heads, and an owner-run brief rather than a crewed one, which is unusual at this length in this range and tells you plainly who Sunseeker drew it for.
It fits an owner who cruises in warm weather and wants the flybridge open to it, who values a wide, settled platform at anchor over arriving first, and who is comfortable with 25 knots because the passages are short and the days are long. With 2,245 gallons aboard you are not planning a coastal season around where the fuel docks are.
It does not fit you if covering ground quickly is the point. Twenty-five knots is the lowest maximum Sunseeker publishes for anything under 130 feet, tied only with this boat's own Enclosed twin, and if the appeal of the brand is the Predator side of it then you are reading the wrong part of the catalogue. It also does not fit a programme with permanent crew unless you have seen where those crew live on the drawing for your specific hull, in writing, before deposit.
The last honest filter is climate. If your season runs long or your weather is unreliable, look hard at the 82 Ocean Enclosed before you commit. It is the same hull with the same numbers, and the roof is the entire difference between them.
The specification publishes a band rather than a fixed count: four to five cabins and four to five heads. The fifth cabin comes out of volume that is otherwise doing something else, so the arrangement is a decision you make at build rather than one you inherit.
The 21' 6" beam on an 82' 6" hull is what makes both versions work. That is close to a quarter of the boat's length in width, and interior volume on a motoryacht comes from beam far more than from length.
One practical warning: the images on Sunseeker's own page do not all show the same interior, and four of them are shared with the 82 Ocean Enclosed. Settle which arrangement you are buying on the drawing, not on a photograph.
Not on the published arrangement. The 82 Ocean lists four to five cabins and four to five heads, and both 82s stop there, while every Sunseeker in this class from 88' 11" upward, including both 90 Oceans, lists cabins plus crew.
That is the clearest signal on the sheet about who the boat was drawn for. If you intend to run it yourself, or with help who go home at night, it is a feature.
If a captain or a stewardess is part of your plan, ask the dealer to show you where they sleep on the general arrangement drawing for your specific hull number, and settle it there rather than on a brochure photograph.
Sunseeker publishes a maximum of 25 knots on twin MAN V12-1650s, 1,650 HP a side. On a 164,531 lb hull carrying 2,245 gallons that figure is the design brief rather than a shortfall - the Ocean class trades speed for beam and tankage, and it does so deliberately.
The number worth having beyond that is your own. On the sea trial, hold the rpm you actually intend to run at and have observed consumption at that rpm recorded in the trial report, with the load aboard and the state of the tanks noted beside it. Work it against those 2,245 gallons and you have a season plan.
Choose on climate, because on every published figure they are the same boat. Length, beam, draft, half-load displacement, engines, fuel, water, cabins, heads and maximum speed are identical in all ten places, and the two model pages even share four of the same photographs.
If your season runs long, or your home waters are as often grey as blue, take the Enclosed. A closed-in upper deck is usable in shoulder seasons and poor weather, and over a year that is a lot of days you would otherwise spend looking at the flybridge rather than sitting on it.
If you cruise in reliable heat and being outdoors is the point of a flybridge, take the open 82 Ocean. You give up nothing measurable in doing so.
What you should not do is let anyone sell you a handling, speed or stability difference between the two. It is one hull, presented two ways.
