what is it

[Guest]

is the hurley 24/70 the same as the atlanta faroes 24 any help I would be very gratefull

 

[billmacfarlane]

This month's PBO had an article re the Hurley in it this month. Might find your answer in there.

 

[graham]

The later Hurley 24/70s were called Atlantas ,not sure about the "faroes "bit though.
We had a 24/70 bilge keel for about 4 years .Very good in heavy weather,no slamming and dry on deck .The keels are large for bilge keels and give good windward performance .Good headroom and quite roomy for an older 24 footer.Ours had an18 hp Yanmar giving bags of power.A 10hp would be enough.

 

[jamesjermain]

I think the answer is 'yes'. Atlanta Marine certainly took over the moulds when Hurley went bust and produced it, I thought, just as the Atlanta 24 but they may have added the Faroes bit as well. They called the old MAcwester 26 the Rockall so it would make sense. Atlanta Marine was an offshoot of a furniture making company which jumped on the burgeoning boating boom bandwagon in the early seventies and snapped up a number of moulds from famous, but failed British companies. They brought the interiors up to date to a degree but could do nothing about the increasingly outdated hulls and eventually passed away themselves in around 1985.

JJ

 

[Guest]

THANKS FOR THE REPLIES I HAVE BEEN TO LOOK AT IT NOW NOT THE SAME ANIMAL AT ALL A BIT SIMILAR TO LOOK AT BUT HALF THE WEIGHT AND ONLY 2FT9INS DRAFT