info / thoughts on Hardy 25

[sailorman]

having previously stating i had thoughts on antares 760, i have now found these handsome little vessels that have piqued my interest, im sure the build quality is good, the yanmar engines with chain driven camshaft is more to my liking than a belt, ok chaps, the good bad & the ugly please

 

[Plum]

having previously stating i had thoughts on antares 760, i have now found these handsome little vessels that have piqued my interest, im sure the build quality is good, the yanmar engines with chain driven camshaft is more to my liking than a belt, ok chaps, the good bad & the ugly please

Hi, which engine are you eliminating due to a belt driven camshaft? Depends on how you will use your boat, the Hardy has a good reputation but if you are at all interested in the RCD seakeeping categories, then I beleive the Hardy is "inshore"

 

[paulbrown22]

A Hardy 25 (i.e. the very old one from 1980's), or a more modern Hardy Mariner 25/26 from the early/mid 2000's generally with the Yanmar 4LH 230hp? I seriously looked at the Mariner 25 and Hardy 27 as I have a lovely Hardy Navigator 18 and wanted something bigger, and first port of call was another Hardy. The Hardy 27 I quite liked the layout but it was just dog slow even with twin Yanmars, the Mariner 25 had much better performance but I went onboard one and the layout just wasn't right for me with minimal space in the pilot house for us to have 2 small children there playing and quite tight down below. I ended up buying a Saga 26HT which for me had a far better layout with our current family age, much more living space upstairs, amazing build quality and performance in-between the Hardy 27 and Mariner 25.

 

[Alicatt]

We contemplated a Hardy Family Pilot 20 but it was very small for what we wanted, the 25 was a bit better but the layout was not to my wife's liking, they are quite heavy boat for their size and require a fair bit of HP to get them to shift. The Hardy Owner's Club has a nice little spreadsheet with member's boats, engine fitted and such giving details of speeds/fuel consumption.
*It did not help that when my wife sat down in the cabin it was on a wet patch from a leaking window, that put her right off

We eventually bought a Broom Ocean 37, a lot more money but a much more comfortable boat for the two of us and the occasional guests.

 

[zikzik]

I’m just in the process of buying an Antares 760. But while looking and deciding , I was very keen to view a mariner 25 for sale near me. I liked the style and build quality, but was unsure of the layout, so I went home and showed my wife both in adverts / youtube vids. She pointed out, correctly I think, that having the galley below meant often using the main bed as a saloon with table up, meaning making a bed some or most nights.
The 760 is a better, more practical option for us and might edge the mariner 25 in sea keeping and visibility as well.

 

[Alicatt]

My wife and I did our PB2 on a Merry Fisher 725, similar but not the same, the MF had a 150hp Suzuki outboard where the Antares has an inboard of up to 200hp and the Antares has a B6/C8 RCD where the MF has just the C8 rating
in layout they are not too dissimilar double berth forward and a small galley in the wheel house.
We had great fun out on the MF in a force 6 to 5 winds on the Clyde and my wife loved that little boat