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Dolphin 24
The Dolphin 24 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by William Shaw of Sparkman & Stephens as a Midget Ocean Racing Club (MORC) racer-cruiser and first built in 1959. Shaw had been one of the instigators of the MORC rules. The boat is Sparkman & Stephens' design #1497.
The design was built by a large number of manufacturers during its lengthy production run between 1959 and 1978.
The design was initially sold by the O'Day Corp. in the United States, with production of 36 boats between 1959 and 1967. O'Day did not build the boat in-house, but contracted out construction to several different companies, including Lunn Laminates of Long Island, New York and later Marscot Plastics in Fall River, Massachusetts, a company that later became a subsidiary of O'Day. J.J. Taylor and Sons Ltd. in Canada also likely built some. The boat was also sold by US Yachts Inc. of Westport, Connecticut under Bob Larsen and Warren Dellenbaugh (not the same US Yachts that was a division of Bayliner), with O'Day building the boats for them. US Yachts Inc. was to go public on the New York Stock Exchange. In 1968 Yankee Yachts Inc. acquired the design rights and started production in Inglewood, California, with few changes to the design. The hulls were actually built by O'Day, but eventually Yankee used one of the completed hulls to create its own mold. Yankee later moved to Santa Ana, California. After Yankee went out of business, one of their suppliers restarted production in Anaheim, California, under the name Pacific Dolphin, building boats from 1974 to 1978, before production ended.
Some of the boats were also sold as kits for owner completion.
The Dolphin 24 derived from an earlier wooden boat design, the Mermaid 24.
The Dolphin 24 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, a raked stem; a raised counter, angled transom; a keel-mounted rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed long keel, with a centerboard. It displaces 4,250 lb (1,928 kg) and carries 1,650 lb (748 kg) of ballast.
After a fire destroyed the deck molds, some boats were finished with wooden decks and wooden coach house roofs.
The boat has a draft of 5.17 ft (1.58 m) with the centerboard extended and 2.83 ft (0.86 m) with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water or ground transportation on a trailer.
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Dolphin 24
The Dolphin 24 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by William Shaw of Sparkman & Stephens as a Midget Ocean Racing Club (MORC) racer-cruiser and first built in 1959. Shaw had been one of the instigators of the MORC rules. The boat is Sparkman & Stephens' design #1497.
The design was built by a large number of manufacturers during its lengthy production run between 1959 and 1978.
The design was initially sold by the O'Day Corp. in the United States, with production of 36 boats between 1959 and 1967. O'Day did not build the boat in-house, but contracted out construction to several different companies, including Lunn Laminates of Long Island, New York and later Marscot Plastics in Fall River, Massachusetts, a company that later became a subsidiary of O'Day. J.J. Taylor and Sons Ltd. in Canada also likely built some. The boat was also sold by US Yachts Inc. of Westport, Connecticut under Bob Larsen and Warren Dellenbaugh (not the same US Yachts that was a division of Bayliner), with O'Day building the boats for them. US Yachts Inc. was to go public on the New York Stock Exchange. In 1968 Yankee Yachts Inc. acquired the design rights and started production in Inglewood, California, with few changes to the design. The hulls were actually built by O'Day, but eventually Yankee used one of the completed hulls to create its own mold. Yankee later moved to Santa Ana, California. After Yankee went out of business, one of their suppliers restarted production in Anaheim, California, under the name Pacific Dolphin, building boats from 1974 to 1978, before production ended.
Some of the boats were also sold as kits for owner completion.
The Dolphin 24 derived from an earlier wooden boat design, the Mermaid 24.
The Dolphin 24 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, a raked stem; a raised counter, angled transom; a keel-mounted rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed long keel, with a centerboard. It displaces 4,250 lb (1,928 kg) and carries 1,650 lb (748 kg) of ballast.
After a fire destroyed the deck molds, some boats were finished with wooden decks and wooden coach house roofs.
The boat has a draft of 5.17 ft (1.58 m) with the centerboard extended and 2.83 ft (0.86 m) with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water or ground transportation on a trailer.