Crescent 24
Description
The Crescent is a pioneering American one-design racing keelboat, designed by Richard (Dick) Hill, a Ford Motor Company engineer and artist, in 1953. Built exclusively in Detroit, Michigan, from 1953 to 1974, only 27 fiberglass hulls were produced, making it one of the earliest production fiberglass sailboats in the world and the oldest continuously raced fiberglass one-design class. Inspired by the Crescent Sail Yacht Club on Lake St. Clair, Michigan, it started as a garage project using a plaster mold from an existing wooden hard-chine racing sloop. The class remains active in regional racing, emphasizing simplicity, durability, and equalized performance.
Construction Details
| Designer | Richard Hill |
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| Length | 24.000 ft |
| LOA | 24.000 ft |
| LWL | 18.500 ft |
| Beam | 6.500 ft |
| Displacement | 2650 lb |
| Ballast | 1200 lb |
| Max Draft | 4.083 ft |
| Year Built | 1953 |
The standard boat dimensions
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Disclaimer. Boats are not all the same -- even when produced in the same factory of the same model. Sailrite does its best to publish accurate dimensions, but we often find it worthwhile to have our customers measure their boats carefully before we produce kits for them. You should take the same precautions, especially when the data is not from Sailrite. The information on this site is not guaranteed to be accurate. Sailrite offers this content as a service to our community, but takes no responsibility for the reliability of the data provided.
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