The Buccaneer 250 is an American trailerable sailboat, that was designed by

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and first built in 1978. The design is out of production.

Production

The boat was built by Buccaneer Yachts/

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, a division of

Bayliner Bayliner is the world's largest manufacturer of recreational boats. Established in 1957 by Orin Edson, Bayliner currently has over 400 dealers in over 60 countries around the world. The company operates as part of the Brunswick Boat Group, a div ...

, which is itself a division of the

Brunswick Boat Group The Brunswick Boat Group, headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, is the largest maker of pleasure boats in the world. The company's net sales were US$1.7 billion in 2008, and US$1.0 billion in 2012. The Boat Group makes Sea Ray, Ba ...

, which is in turn owned by the Brunswick Corporation. The design was later developed into the

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and the

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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 or, optionally, a shoal-draft keel, giving a draft of . It displaces , carries of ballast and has a hull speed of . 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 and a

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of . ;Buccaneer 255 :Version with an inboard motor, displacement of and a length overall of .

References

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Production

Design

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