Buccaneer 24 Trimaran

Newbe

I am very interested in the Buccaneer. I am getting old fast, an need to get along with my dream of building and sailing.

 

If you are serious you should make 5 posts, (ask questions).
After 24hrs you will then be able to communicate with other members by Private Messaging, or E-mail.
Cheers. OS7.

 

thanks Gary, youre details explane a lot!

 

Thanks BruceB, just caught up with your post on the device for loading the amas. Didn't have much trouble putting my 24 together this summer, but I do wonder about how long I will last at it. So something simple like that would work fine.

 

How would 2 bucc 24 floats go as a day sailer cat? any opinions

 

IMHO, they would not be suitable , primarily brcause they would not have enough buoyancy in their rear sections to support the crew weight.
Better to buy a used B class Cat, such as a "Solcat".

 

Or build the classic Tornado, etc...

 

Shallow Waters

Hi, can anyone tell me what a Buccaneer will tack through in force 3/4
with fairly flat water. Say 100 degrees ??.

Also how much will she fall off if the board is lifted. I usually find
myself beating back home against a fallling tide and running out of
water.

Also what sort of speeds can be expected from a reasonably well
sailed and mentained boat in normal conditions without doing a SAMNZ
on it. I'm a little too long in the tooth for that,

Best regards to all,

 

Waterrat.
If the jib sheeting angle is suitably narrow, the board is fully down
and the speed is kept up to windward, the B24 wil tack quickly through betteer than 90 deg.

With it's near round bottom and the board up, it WILL fall off, due to the rudder still being there. In shallow water there is no point in pulling up the CB to any more than the depth of the rudder. The CB will take grounding much better than the rudder.

Samnz B24 was incredibly fast due to the huge sail area. However I successfully raced my B24 with the stock sails. It is a fast cruiser---but it does it in an effortless, almost nonchalant, way.

BTW. Lee Sails of Hong Kong have the stock Terylene B24 sail set on their computer and can supply them at very reasonable price.

Hope this helps. OS7.

 

11 knots upwind tacking thru 90 degrees is about max on race trim and flat water with good sails. 8 to 9 knots upwind easy even with crappy sails if theres over 15 knots of breeze.

 

Do any of you Buc owners have any particular preference to where the outboard bracket is hung ie port/starboard and what H.P for this boat assuming it will be used for cruising only?

 

I used a 6hp Johnson longshaft motor on a tilting bracket, bolted to the starboard crossbeam, adjacent to the hull.

 

OS7, do you know anyone out Hong Kong way, who supplies sail cloth at reasonable price. The sources here in Canada, and the US, all seem to run about as much as finished sails...

 

There's a Bucc 24 for sale in Jervis Bay, NSW Australia if anyone's interested.

Middling condition; I think it still races.

Hellova boat, although I'd rather a TT720 personally.

 

I really don't know ThomD. but I will ask my daughter who is a fashion designer and gets all of her cloth materials from Hong Kong.
"Sail cloth" is a pretty broad term ---it could mean anything from Irish Linen to Carbon /Kevlar laminate. A lot of sails suitable for crusing boats are still made from Terylene, (a synthetic textile fibre of polyester).
Lock specifies the weights of cloth for the various sails in sheet 6 of the plans.