Buccaneer 24 Trimaran

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Thanks oldsailor7,

I would like them.

Kim

 

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Are there any Buccaneer 24s in the US great lakes?

 

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About how many Buccaneer 24s have been built?

 

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As I have more experience in monohull, what would you recommend as a reading list for multihull design and capabilities?

 

Bucc 24 in Nowra NSW

Another Bucc up for sale. Looks OK, not too exxy....

http://www.tradingpost.com.au/Boats/Sail-Boats/AdNumber=TP005502325

 

This boat has been around for a while starting out at about $14k when I first saw it, I contacted them and asked what they thought about moving it to WA.
The answer I got back was "yellow pages" that lost me.

 

Sail it home!!! Wouldn't take more than a week or two....

Bet we find could you a crew, no problemo...!!

Saw a TT720 go for $3500 in Tassie - so add $1500 to get it to the Mainland, and another in Gosford went for $7200, which makes the Bucc 24 look pretty close to 'on the money' at $10K...if the condition is good to very good as claimed....

....so if you could get it for less than that, you'd have margin for shipping.

Another option is to hire a 'shipping crew' which is pretty easy to do. Just post that you need one on the cruising forums....

But it would still probably be cheaper to fly over and sail it back.

You'd be struggling to build one for $10K, if building materials, rig and fittings were all 'new'!

 

Wooden boat show

It looks like I am going to be able to attend the wooden boat show in June at Mystic Seaport this summer. Any other forum members planing to attend?
B

 

I heading to the one in Georgetown this year.

 

Ikimalu. The weather in Europe must be warming up now. How are you getting on with the restoration of the B24. ?

 

Very tidy B 24 for sale in Oz
http://www.multihulls.net.au/crowther-buccaneer-24-trimaran/

 

Yes that's a neat looking B24.
Don't like the space robbing mainsheet track in the cockpit though.
Also it says LOA is 24' 3". Where does the extra 6" come from.
Access to the foredeck could be easily made safer and the daggerboard could be replaced with a bigger vertical one. All easily done.

 

Buccaneer 24 plans will be available again from Dec 2013.

Just a reminder:-
Lock Crowther was my business partner for 11 years and a dear friend for 27 years.
Of all the wonderful multihulls which he designed, the Buccaneer 24 was the most successful in the terms of how many plans were sold–but more importantly how many actually got built, sailed, cruised and raced. There is no record of one having capsized or pitch-poled.
Although Lock is gone , as is his company, the Buccaneer 24 plans are still available, including on going advice backup from me.
To my knowledge at least 200 were built, which probably outnumbers any other home build Tri in this class.
Although the design is forty years old it is still up to the present day mark in terms of simplicity of construction, longevity, suitability for it’s design target (Fast 3 berth Cruiser), and above all –Seaworthyness. Many, including mine, have been very successfully raced.
Some people baulk at the idea of alloy crossbeams, but it really is so simple. Every country has an alloy manufacturer (Alcoa, Alcan etc: ) who can provide stock alloy tubing, cut to size, drilled and triple anodised so that all the builder has to do is bolt it in place. That includes the mast, boom, Spinnaker pole, (or better still the modern day “Prodder”).
Full size patterns are included in the plans, not just for the frames but for all the required metal fittings, so the builder can make them himself if he wants to.
Sail plan shapes and sizes–including the sailcloth weights for each sail are likewise included. And to top it off the whole boat can be built in 500 man hours of well planned work. This boat is NOT folding, but it is demountable for trailing. A friend of mine built and sailed his B24 in Toronto Canada. He de-mounted it onto a standard trailer and drove it down to Florida for a two week holiday. He trailed it back just in time for the start of the spring launching in Toronto, a smart way to extend the sailing season in that clime where the water goes solid for six months of the year.
For a small trimaran it’s payload capacity is perfectly adequate for it’s size and the well designed cockpit is remarkably dry if built as shown in the plans.
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All in all the Buccaneer 24 Trimaran should not be overlooked.

 

"There is no record of"

The last time I heard something like that was from a politician ....

 

I repeat:- There is no record of a B24 capsize or pitch pole. A simple fact.
If anyone has any knowledge of this type of accident with a B24 I would like to be the first to hear of it,----- with all the details.