
For sale
Silver Bullet1998 Custom 55
New Bern, North Carolina

About This Yacht
Go anywhere aluminum pilothouse world cruiser by Hike Metal (hikemetal.com). Original owner selling this Scolfield design with Rubatex insulated hull, inside helm station for wet weather & high latitude sailing, and many extended range cruising systems
Specification
The Numbers
- Length overall
- 55'
- Year
- 1998
- Builder
- Hike Metal
- Beam
- 14'
- Draft (max)
- 10'
- Cabins
- 3
- Heads
- 2
- Fuel type
- Diesel
- Fuel capacity
- 110 Gallons (416.4 Liters)
- Displacement
- 32000
- Hull material
- Aluminum
- Hull type
- Sail
- Condition
- Used
- HIN / IMO
- 122
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In detail
More about this yacht
Interior Layout Overview
-Pilot house is accessed from the aft cockpit. Includes gimballed navigation/helm seat and full electronics suite on port side. Pilot berth with lee cloth to starboard that also serves as a sitting area.
-Salon is accessed by stepping down ladder from the pilothouse into a warm cherry and ash trimmed main salon. Varnished cherry decks replaced in last year. Port side aft of the salon is the galley area with full cooking, storage and refrigeration.
-Starboard side opposite the salon is the aft head.
-Starboard side behind the head is a large cabin with double berth and stowage.
-Moving forward from the salon you step through a water tight door into the forward cabin area that includes a large double berth portside and three single berths on the starboard side.
-Forward of this cabin is the forward head with a large shower.
-Forward shower bulkhead is the 'collision bulkhead.'
-Forward of the collision bulkhead is a large deep sail and line storage locker area and the anchor chain locker. This is accessed by a ladder on bow through a large hatch.
Onboard Systems Summary
Accomodations
- Cherry and Ash trimmed interior. New Cherry decks 2025
- Berths: 2 double berths and 3 single berths total
- Pilothouse: gimbled helm-chair and soft pilot berth/setee
- Heads: Two Heads with holding tanks and Shower
Mechanical
- Main Engine: Yanmar 4JH2-TNE 100 HP 4700 Hrs, alternator changed 2026
- Electric oil change pump for main engine and generator
- Watermaker: Aqua Marine (RO) water maker 2103 Hrs
- Heater: Espar Hydronic Heater for interior cabin
Power Generation & Electrical
- Wind generator 12v: Primus (2025 bearings replaced)
- Watts at Sea 12V generator (2021 manufacturer overhauled)
- Yanmar 15 HP Genset 2103 Hrs (provides 12 volt charging, RO pump water maker & refrigeration compressor)
- Solar Panel
- New house batteries (2026)
- New start battery (2025)
- Heart Interface Link 2000 battery condition monitor
- Ultrasonic Hull antifouling: with W4 transmitters (operates on 12v DC or 110v AC)
Electronics
- RayMarine depth, speed & wind instruments (2017)
- Garmin chartplotter (navigation station, pilothouse) (2023)
- Raymarine chartplotter (cockpit helm station) (2022)
- B&G Radar with large dedicated display (navigation station, pilothouse) (2016)
- Simrad Auto-Pilot paired with Whitlock, torsion bar steering (2022 with NMEA 2000 interface)
- Simrad AIS
- SSB radio with Procter modem & Antenna turner (2015)
- Standard Horizon VHF radio
Hull Structure & Tanks
- Hull Aluminum 1/4 inch bottom & 3/16 inch topside, Deck Aluminum 3/16 inch
- High stress areas 3/8 & 1/2 inch aluminum
- Hull has 4 water tight compartments
- Rubitex 1/2" closed‑cell hull insulation
- Tankage: 4-Fuel tanks, 110 gals
- 4-20 gallon Water tanks
Deck, Rig and Sails
- Mast: Hall Spar, keel stepped
- Boom: Offshore spar
- Spinnaker Pole: Carbon Fiber
- Rod Rigging: replaced approx 2016
- Roller Furling Jib: PROFURL 42
- Deck Gear: Harken and Lewmar
- Hydraulic Anchor windless: Lewmar
- Hatches and Portlights: Lewmar
- Pilot house 3/8" tempered glass
- Staysail: on Removable Shroud
- Sail Inventory: Three Mains, Four Jibs, Two Spinnakers. Staysail, Storm Jib & storm Tri-Sail
- Anchors: Bruce 70 lb., Fortress 55 lb & Fortress 37 lbs
- Main back stay has antenna insulators and adjustable with hydraulic ram
Safety & Miscellaneous
- Offshore Life Raft: 6 person ELLIOT (USCG-SOLAS).
- Keel: Raised by hydraulic pump driven by main engine thru electric clutch. This actuates two stainless steel hydraulic rams. There is 42 inches of travel. The keel structure is aluminum 1,500 lbs and is filled with 10,000 lbs of lead. The foil shape is a NACA. (NACA refers to a family of airfoil shapes developed by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the NASA predecessor. In yacht design a NACA foil keel shape optimizes lift and reduces drag—especially when sailing upwind). The keel lead center of gravity is 8 ft below the water line when fully down.
Machinery
- Middle
- Yanmar 4JH2, 100 hp, Diesel, Direct, 4,700 hours
- Generator
- Yanmar
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