"an attractive bilge keeler"

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Does such a thing exist?

Friend has been told that to take up a mooring the the drying harbour, he requires to have a bilge keel yacht of between 21 and 24 feet. Can anyone think of such a boat that would be attractive, and pleasant to sail?

He will be giving up a Drascombe Longboat, so space to sail the boat will be more important that space for sleeping or making a cup of tea.

Thought it better to ask on here than in PBO, just because you lot know what an attractive boat looks like.
 
scruff said:
Why not a lifiting keel? Could get a crabber 24?
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Because the harbour dries out, and he will be in the middle of a row of bilge keelers......and more significantly because that it what he has been told to get by the people who have the power to decide who gets the mooring (for which there is a 15- 20 year waiting list!). Hence the (impossible?) quest.
 
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Hunter Duette.
Goes well.
Tough.
Fair accommodation for a 23ft boat.
Obviously 'attractive' is a matter of taste.
It's got a bit of a fat transom and I think the other suggestions would see a lot of that!
There are more modern Hunters AIUI.

Trident? Not sure of exact length, but has the advantage of inboard diesel I think?

Just put your requirements into the search on Yachtworld and see what crops up.
 
lw395 said:
Just put your requirements into the search on Yachtworld and see what crops up.
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Where's the fun in that?

Hunter duet is a bit of a minger. The Pandora, Hurley, Trident and Corribbee all have a much pleasanter hull shape, particularly the finer stern.

Accommodation below is not that important here. Small boats have generally be ruined by purchasers when new being interested in number of berths and standing head room. (OK, beauty in the eye of the beholder and all that).
 
If your friend wants speed, elegance, shoal draft and a big cockpit, then the answer is surely a Tofinou 7?

Yes, she's a centreboarder, but her draft plate up is so modest that you can easily rig and unrig legs to keep her bolt upright next to the bilge keelers and stow them in the cockpit whilst sailing.

https://www.yachtworld.co.uk/boats/2019/latitude-46-tofinou-7-0-3182664/

He certainly won't miss his Drascombe once at the helm of a Tofinou. They actually sail... (ducks...)
 
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MikeBz said:
Sadler 25 if you can stretch your length limit by a foot...
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funnily enough one of my other friends got one of them in a similar situation. Great boats. But I don't think the extra foot will be tolerated. Nor legs. Like the Toffifee, but would probably save the money and get a Kinsman instead..... but legs not allowed either. (Although I have legs on my boat in the row behind). Not a huge fan of drascomb, but I guess they are what they are, and seem to bring joy and fenders to a lot of people.
 
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Romeo said:
The Pandora, Hurley, Trident and Corribbee all have a much pleasanter hull shape, particularly the finer stern. ...Accommodation below is not that important here.
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The Corribee is a little beauty, and must be no trouble to own in bilge-keel form. But you had better be certain about accommodation not being important, because it is a terrible crush. I'm neither tall nor fat but turned down a very nice inexpensive Mk2 because the idea of spending time in the cabin was prohibitive. The only way my head didn't touch the ceiling was if I sat on the floor.

Very pretty, though.

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