The Weekender 24 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by

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as a

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and first built in 1965. It was Sparkman & Stephens design number 1701-C1.Henkel, Steve: ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'', page 269.

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/ McGraw-Hill, 2010. The design is a development of Sparkman & Stephens design number 1701, the Rainbow 24, with a full cabin replacing the Rainbow 24's cuddy cabin for cruising, rather than daysailing.

Production

The design was built by Tidewater Boats, near

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, United States. The company completed 60 boats between 1965 and 1977, when the company went out of business and production ended.

Design

The Weekender 24 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig; a spooned, raked stem; a raised counter, angled

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with a lazarette; an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a tiller; a self-bailing cockpit and a fixed fin keel. It displaces and carries of cast iron ballast. The boat has a draft of with the standard keel. The boat is normally fitted with a small outboard motor for docking and maneuvering. The design has sleeping accommodation for four people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin and two straight settees in the main cabin. The

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is located on both sides just aft of the bow cabin. The galley is equipped with an icebox on the port side and a sink on the starboard side. The

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is located under the bow cabin berths. Cabin headroom is . For sailing the design may be equipped with either a jib or a genoa foresail. The design has a PHRF racing average handicap of 276 and a hull speed of .

Operational history

In a 2010 review Steve Henkel wrote, "with its relatively short mast (only 27 feet above the water), close to 50 percent ballast to displacement ratio, and a cast iron keel with its weight concentrated in a bulb at the bottom, the boat is about as stiff as she can be. If you carry too much sail in strong winds, and the boat heels excessively, she will develop a strong weather helm and simply round up into the wind—whether you like it or not. (New sailors might like this feature; others might not.) Worst features: With her relatively small sail area, she is not fast compared to, say, a

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or other modern boat, but if well-sailed might keep up with some of her contemporaries, such as an Ensign or

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References

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