Cape Dory 25

Listed Jan 5

Expired

$7,200 USD

Seller's Description

Cape Dory 25 Well maintained Cape Dory 25 - $7200 (Oceanside, CA) One of the first pocket cruisers launched that was designed and built to take you anywhere. Its hull design and full keel will take just about anything the sea can throw at it. This boat has a 8 hp Nissan that starts with one pull. The bright work has been recently refinished and the hull buffed out. The interior has a fresh coat of polyurethane white paint. New cockpit cushions. New furler system. No need to leave the cockpit because all lines lead to the cockpit including Lazy Jacks and Main sail down haul. Comes with a great slip in the quiet side of the harbor by Jolly Roger. Call to set appointment to view.

Length 24.83 ft Waterline Length (LWL) 18 ft Beam 7.25 ft Displacement (Weight) 4000 lbs Ballast 1700 lbs Draft 3 ft Sail Area 264 sqft Cabin Height 5 ft Berths 4 Builder/Designer Cape Dory Co or phone 951-553-1821

Specs

Designer: George H. Stadel Jr.

Builder: Cape Dory Yachts

Association: Cape Dory Sailboat Owners Association

# Built: 845

Hull: Monohull

Keel: Long

Rudder: ?

Construction: FG

Dimensions

Length Overall: 24′ 10″ / 7.6 m

Waterline Length: 18′ 0″ / 5.5 m

Beam: 7′ 3″ / 2.2 m

Draft: 2′ 11″ / 0.9 m

Displacement: 4,000 lb / 1,814 kg

Ballast: 1,700 lb / 771 kg

Rig and Sails

Type: Sloop

Reported Sail Area: 262′² / 24.3 m²

Total Sail Area: 262′² / 24.4 m²

Mainsail

Sail Area: 138′² / 12.8 m²

P: 24′ 0″ / 7.3 m

E: 11′ 6″ / 3.5 m

Air Draft: 31′ 5″ / 9.6 m

Foresail

Sail Area: 124′² / 11.5 m²

I: 27′ 7″ / 8.4 m

J: 8′ 11″ / 2.7 m

Forestay Length: 29′ 0″ / 8.8 m

Auxilary Power

Make: ?

Model: ?

HP: ?

Fuel Type: ?

Fuel Capacity: ?

Engine Hours: ?

Accomodations

Water Capacity: ?

Holding Tank Capacity: ?

Headroom: 4′ 11″ / 1.5 m

Cabins: ?

Calculations

Hull Speed: 5.9 kn
Classic: 5.69 kn

Sail Area/Displacement: 16.6
16-20: good performance

Ballast/Displacement: 42.5
>40: stiffer, more powerful

Displacement/Length: 305.5
300-400: heavy

Comfort Ratio: 21.9
20-30: coastal cruiser

Capsize Screening: 1.8
<2.0: better suited for ocean passages

Notes

From BlueWaterBoats.org

After years of building small sturdy daysailers from as early as 1964, the Cape Dory 25 was Cape Dory’s first foray into fully fledged cruisers. The story goes that founder Andy Vavolotis got a hold of the molds for the Greenwich 24 from Allied Boat Company in 1972 and raised her freeboard to improve headroom, thereby adding seven inches to her length.

Other alterations included a fully enclosed head, a hanging locker, and an enlarged galley. She’s a sloop rigged full keeler with a narrow low-freeboard hull that invites a wet ride. The design is quite dated but traditionalist will love the classic lines and underwater profile, and of course true to Cape Dory tradition, the construction is bulletproof.

Though the Cape Dory 25 was designed for coastal cruising some have taken their boats offshore. Author Ed Campbell writes of cruising the Gulf Coast of the United States, including a passage to the Bahamas. In one incident his Cape Dory 25 survived a collision with an underwater cable strung between two offshore oil rigs. For offshore work, no doubt good prep is in order, the guys at Atom Voyages suggest reducing the cockpit footwell volume and modifying the companionway dropboards so they don’t fall out when raised slightly.

Headroom is only five feet down below, this didn’t get fixed until the 25D successor came along which bumped it up to five feet eleven inches. Power comes by way of an outboard situated in a well in the lazerette. There have been small changes through the years including a switch from fixed port lights to bronze opening ports around 1979.

Production ended in 1982, when the model was replaced by the beamier, heavier, and deeper Cape Dory 25D. Of all the offshore capable Cape Dorys, non have sold better than the original Cape Dory 25 with a total production run of 846 boats.