1974 Cape Dory 25

Muskegon, MI, US

Listed Jan 1

Expired

$8,000 USD

Seller's Description

1974 Cape Dory 25 for sail. Beautiful boat, sails great. Ive owned the boat for six years and have done some work to it like a new paint job on the hull, bottom paint every year, new main halyard and main sheet. New jib sheets and reef lines. Nissan 4 stroke 8 HP motor runs well. I have deck paint I was going to do in the spring that I would give to the new owner. I really love the boat and am willing to help the new owner with tips and advice. Come check it out and I can tell you everything I know about it. Am willing to negotiate on price

Equipment: 22 lb Delta anchor with 15 ft of chain and 200 ft of 3/8 nylon rode. 2 fluke style anchors, one is 25 lbs with 200 ft of 1/2 inch nylon rose and the other is around 14 I believe. Quantum Crosscut mainsail, 2 genoas, 1 jib, 1 spinnaker. CDI roller furler. Dodger, Lewmar winches

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

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.