The Coronado 25 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by

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and first built in 1966.Henkel, Steve: ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'', page 338.

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/ McGraw-Hill, 2010.

Production

The design was built by

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in the United States from 1966 to 1975. It was also built by Russell Marine in the United Kingdom, but it is now out of production.

Design

The Coronado 25 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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; an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel of stub keel and

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. The boat is normally fitted with a small outboard motor for docking and maneuvering. The design has sleeping accommodation for five people, with a double

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in the bow cabin, a dinette table that lowers into a double berth in the main cabin and an aft

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on the port side. The

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is located on the port side just forward of the companionway ladder. The galley is equipped with a two-burner stove, an icebox and a sink. The

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is located just aft of the bow cabin on the starboard side. Cabin headroom is . The design has a hull speed of .

Variants

;Coronado 25 :This fix fin keel model displaces and carries of lead ballast. The boat has a draft of with the standard keel. The boat has a PHRF racing average handicap of 231. ;Coronado 25 CB :This centerboard model displaces and carries of ballast. The boat has a draft of with the centerboard down and with it retracted. The boat has a PHRF racing average handicap of 231.

Operational history

In a 2010 review Steve Henkel wrote that the design was, "in the vanguard of early fiberglass designs".

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