Seller's Description
Built in 1974. Long keel fiberglass boat. Displacement of 4,000 pounds with 1,700 pounds of ballast. Six-foot-long cockpit. Tiller steering. Easy start 4 hp. 4 stroke Nissen outboard (2002).
New sails 2019. Main sail is loose footed made by Precision; forward sail also new in 2019 is a UK made sail. The CDI Furler is also new 2019.
All new running rigging 2021.
New teak trim and rub rails 2021. Varnished yearly. Full cover for winter storage 2022. Also, smaller cover for use in summer. New interior cushions.
TRAILER: Custom built to allow easy launching and loading. 24-foot extension and 5th wheel which spins down to double as a balancing wheel during loading and launching. Dual axle.
What others have said about the Cape Dory 25:
There’s plenty of yacht packed in the Cape Dory 25. Inside and out, you can see the quality and attention to detail that makes Cape Dory bots stand apart from the others. She is a masthead sloop rigged, four birth cruiser with for a portable head, hanging storage. The electrical system includes cabin and navigation light, bilge pump and depth gauge. Bulkhead compass. Anchor, chain and 100 feet of rode. 4 bronze winches. New companion way boards newly varnished.
Construction of all boats in the Cape Dory line is similar. Hulls are moderately heavy solid glass layups of mat and roving. Ballast in all cases is a lead casting. The casting is heavily glass over inside the hull.
She offers a degree of stability hardly ever found in a twenty-five-footer. The Cape Dory is well suited to areas where wind and weather conditions are apt to change quickly. These boats have been sailed around the world. There is no substitute for the easy motion and ease of steering she and other Cape Dorys offer.
Equipment: -New mainsail by Precision 2019 -New forward sail UK made 2019 -New CDI furler 2019 -New running rigging 2021 -New teak trim 2021 -New teak rub rails 2021 -All teak varnished annually -New full cover for winter storage -Smaller cabin/companionway cover for summer -New bilge pump 2021 -New depth meter 2021 -New interior cushions
-Custom built trailer for easy launch and load. 24 foot extension and fifth wheel. Dual axle.
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
- 25′ 0″ / 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
- 1
Calculations
- Hull Speed
-
5.9 kn
Classic: 5.69 kn
Hull Speed
The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.
Formula
Classic hull speed formula:
Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWL
A more accurate formula devised by Dave Gerr in The Propeller Handbook replaces the Speed/Length ratio constant of 1.34 with a calculation based on the Displacement/Length ratio.
Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio.311
Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL
- Sail Area/Displacement
-
16.6
Sail Area / Displacement Ratio
A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.
Formula
SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64)2/3
- SA: Sail area in square feet, derived by adding the mainsail area to 100% of the foretriangle area (the lateral area above the deck between the mast and the forestay).
- D: Displacement in pounds.
- Ballast/Displacement
-
42.5
>40: stiffer, more powerful
Ballast / Displacement Ratio
A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.
Formula
Ballast / Displacement * 100
- Displacement/Length
-
305.5
300-400: heavy
Displacement / Length Ratio
A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat’s D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.
Formula
D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³
- D: Displacement of the boat in pounds.
- LWL: Waterline length in feet
- Comfort Ratio
-
21.9
20-30: coastal cruiser
Comfort Ratio
This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat’s hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat’s motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.
Formula
Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam1.33)
- D: Displacement of the boat in pounds
- LWL: Waterline length in feet
- LOA: Length overall in feet
- Beam: Width of boat at the widest point in feet
- Capsize Screening
-
1.8
<2.0: better suited for ocean passages
Capsize Screening Formula
This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.
Formula
CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)
- Beam: Width of boat at the widest point in feet
- D: Displacement of the boat in pounds
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.
Links, References and Further Reading
» Cape Dory Owners Association, Cape Dory 25 brochures, owner discussions, and further information.
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