Buccaneer 250

The Buccaneer 250 is an American trailerable sailboat, that was designed by Gary Mull and first built in 1978. The design is out of production.

Production
The boat was built by Buccaneer Yachts/US Yachts, a division of Bayliner, which is itself a division of the Brunswick Boat Group, which is in turn owned by the Brunswick Corporation.

The design was later developed into the US Yachts US 25 and the Triton 25.

Design
The Buccaneer 250 is a small recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, a spade-type rudder, a conventional fin keel giving a draft of 4.67 ft or, optionally, a shoal-draft keel, giving a draft of 3.50 ft.

It displaces 3750 lb, carries 1250 lb of ballast and has a hull speed of 6.2 kn.

The Buccaneer 250 has a PHRF racing average handicap of 219 with a high of 216 and low of 225.

Variants

 * Buccaneer 250
 * Version with an outboard motor, displacement of 3750 lb and a length overall of 25.00 ft.


 * Buccaneer 255
 * Version with an inboard motor, displacement of 4100 lb and a length overall of 25.50 ft.