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Hurley 24/70 |
Brief details |
Builder |
Hurley Marine Ltd. |
The Hurley 24/70
is a small cruiser with four six foot plus long berths, and almost
six foot headroom in the saloon. She has a small high aspect ratio
mainsail, and a fairly large genoa. Unusually the bilge keel version is almost as deep draught as the fin keeler, making the bilge-keel performance quite good. |
LOA |
23' 9" |
Sail area |
216 sq ft |
LWL |
17' 6" |
Rig |
Sloop |
Beam |
7' 5" |
Cabins |
Saloon + forecabin |
Draught |
4' 1" fin keel or 3' 11" bilge keels |
Berths |
4 |
Displacement |
4,200 lbs |
Engine |
various |
Ballast |
2,500 lbs |
BHP |
5 - 12 |
Keel type |
Twin encapsulated bilge keels and skeg-hung rudder |
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Ian Anderson designed the Hurley 24/70 for
Hurley Marine in 1972, as a larger version of the long-running
and very successful Hurley 22, but with a more modern look,
and in particular, with more headroom. He also switched from
the long keel of the earlier Hurley designs to a
fin and skeg configuration. The sail area was actually smaller than the Hurley 22 it replaced, but with a longer hull and a more modern keel performance was similar.
Most Hurley 24/70s were inboard
engined, with a 5 hp Petter diesel, but some were outboard-powered.
By now most of these original engines have been replaced.
When Hurley went out of business in 1974 the mouldings of
the Hurley 24/70 were taken over by Atlanta Marine, who marketed
the yacht as the Atlanta 24, and later cut the hull mould
amidships and stretched it from 23' 9" to 24' 9"
to make the Atlanta 25.
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