The Moore 24 is a 23.75ft fractional sloop designed by George Olson, Ron Moore and built in fiberglass by Moore Sailboats between 1972 and 1988.
156 units have been built..
The Moore 24 is an ultralight sailboat which is a very high performer. It is very stable / stiff and has a low righting capability if capsized. It is best suited as a racing boat.
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| Model | Moore 24 | ||
| Length | 23.75 ft | ||
| Beam | 7.17 ft | ||
| Draft | 4.08 ft | ||
| Country | United states (North America) | ||
| Estimated price | $ 0 | ?? |
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| Sail area / displ. | 24.65 | ||
| Ballast / displ. | 48.78 % | ||
| Displ. / length | 88.95 | ||
| Comfort ratio | 10.27 | ||
| Capsize | 2.26 |
| Hull type | Monohull fin keel with spade rudder | ||
| Construction | Fiberglass | ||
| Waterline length | 21.75 ft | ||
| Maximum draft | 4.08 ft | ||
| Displacement | 2050 lbs | ||
| Ballast | 1000 lbs | ||
| Hull speed | 6.25 knots |
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| Rigging | Fractional Sloop | ||
| Sail area (100%) | 248 sq.ft | ||
| Air draft | 0 ft | ?? | |
| Sail area fore | 127.97 sq.ft | ||
| Sail area main | 118.75 sq.ft | ||
| I | 26.25 ft | ||
| J | 9.75 ft | ||
| P | 25 ft | ||
| E | 9.50 ft |
| Nb engines | 1 | ||
| Total power | 0 HP | ||
| Fuel capacity | 0 gals |
Accommodations
| Water capacity | 0 gals | ||
| Headroom | 0 ft | ||
| Nb of cabins | 0 | ||
| Nb of berths | 0 | ||
| Nb heads | 0 |
Builder data
| Builder | Moore Sailboats | ||
| Designer | George Olson, Ron Moore | ||
| First built | 1972 | ||
| Last built | 1988 | ||
| Number built | 156 |
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Love for the Moore 24
- By Ronnie Simpson
- Updated: March 27, 2013
Designed in the 1960s and first produced in 1972, the Moore 24 led the way for an entire generation of ultralight-displacement boats that would serve to cement the place of Santa Cruz, California, in the annals of yacht-racing history. Designed by famed surfer and sailor George Olson, the Moore 24 was first conceived as the longest, lightest way to make a racing keelboat that would use a Cal 20 rig. In the strong summer breezes and big swells of Monterey Bay and the San Francisco region, the little speedsters immediately proved their merit with solid construction and unrivaled off-the-wind performance, surfing past 50-foot IOR designs in local offshore races.
In 1975, a Moore 24 was sailed doublehanded to Hawai’i, further proving the boat’s seaworthiness. By 1980 production and popularity was at its peak, and three of the boats raced one-design in the biennial Singlehanded Transpac, a solo race from San Francisco to Kaua’i. The boat’s lightweight, easily handled sail plan and well-mannered, bow-high surfing characteristics made it a favorite of local ocean racers, earning an impressive racing record in the challenging Gulf of the Farallones and the Pacific Ocean.
Over the past 40 years, the Moore 24 has become an ageless classic in Northern California and all over the U.S. West Coast. With one-design fleets in Santa Cruz, San Francisco, and the Pacific Northwest, you’ll often find more than 30 boats at a big regatta. The 24’s cult-like following and long list of talented owners is a testament to the longevity and durability of this superb design.
In addition to one-design contests, Moores regularly win mixed-fleet races to this day. Collecting hardware in weekly beer-can races, local offshore races, and even races to Hawai’i, the oversized presence of the Moore 24 on the U.S. West Coast belies the fact that only 156 boats were built. Continuing their rich ocean-racing tradition, two Moore 24s were sailed singlehanded to Hawai’i in the 2012 Singlehanded Transpac. In a class that included several other Santa Cruz ULDBs and even a Transat 6.50, the Moore again reigned supreme, earning yet another class win in Hawai’i.
Ronnie Simpson is the owner of Moore 24 US 101.
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Moore 24 is a 23 ′ 9 ″ / 7.2 m monohull sailboat designed by George Olson and built by Moore Sailboats between 1972 and 1988.
Rig and Sails
Auxilary power, accomodations, calculations.
The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.
Classic hull speed formula:
Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWL
Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio .311 Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL
Sail Area / Displacement Ratio
A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.
SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64) 2/3
- SA : Sail area in square feet, derived by adding the mainsail area to 100% of the foretriangle area (the lateral area above the deck between the mast and the forestay).
- D : Displacement in pounds.
Ballast / Displacement Ratio
A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.
Ballast / Displacement * 100
Displacement / Length Ratio
A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat’s D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.
D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³
- D: Displacement of the boat in pounds.
- LWL: Waterline length in feet
Comfort Ratio
This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat’s hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat’s motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.
Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam 1.33 )
- D: Displacement of the boat in pounds
- LOA: Length overall in feet
- Beam: Width of boat at the widest point in feet
Capsize Screening Formula
This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.
CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)
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One-Design Class Type: Keelboat
Was this boat built to be sailed by youth or adults? Both
Approximately how many class members do you have? 50
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About Moore 24 National Association
The original Santa Cruz-built ULDB.
Boats Produced: 150
Class boat builder(s):
Moore Sailboats
Approximately how many boats are in the USA/North America? 150
Where is your One-Design class typically sailed in the USA? List regions of the country:
San Francisco Bay Monterey Bay Lake Tahoe Hood River Pacific Northwest Southern California
Does this class have a spinnaker or gennaker? Yes
How many people sail as a crew including the helm? 4-5
Ideal combined weight of range of crew: 775-825
Boat Designed in 1973
Length (feet/inches): 23′ 9″
Beam: 7′ 2″
Weight of rigged boat without sails: 2050
Draft: 4’1″
Mast Height: 29’4″
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Fin w/spade rudder
Specifications MOORE 24
Home - Sailboat Listings 1974 - 23.75 ft / 7.24 m - George Olson - Moore Brothers (USA) - Ron Moore
MOORE 24 Sailboat Data
Hull Type: Fin w/spade rudder Rigging Type: Fractional Sloop LOA: 23.75 ft / 7.24 m LWL: 21.75 ft / 6.63 m S.A. (reported): 247.00 ft² / 22.95 m² Beam: 7.17 ft / 2.19 m Displacement: 2,050.00 lb / 930 kg Ballast: 1,000.00 lb / 454 kg Max Draft: 4.08 ft / 1.24 m Construction: FG First Built: 1974 # Built: 158 Builder: Moore Brothers (USA) Designer: George Olson, Ron Moore
Information from sailboatdata.com .
Hull Speed: 6.25 kn
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Solo Pacific sailing: The adventures of Webb Chiles and his Moore 24 Gannet
- June 1, 2020
Single-handed adventurer Webb Chiles outruns a south pacific storm as he sails between the US and New Zealand
Webb Chiles’s Gannet is a George Olson-designed Moore 24, a long-distance race-winning ultralight yacht built in the US
I hesitated only a moment before deciding to let the main halyard go and continue under furled jib alone. Running backstays were installed in Honolulu for just that purpose. The windward one was already in place, as it usually is on passages when I expect the wind to be on the same side of the boat for an extended period.
The fully battened main slid down the Tides Marine track. I grabbed a line from a cockpit sheet bag, crawled the few feet to the mast and, hanging on with one hand as 12 to 15ft waves crashed over us, crudely lashed the sail to the boom. Back in the cockpit, I felt that even the remaining scrap of jib was too much and furled it down to T-shirt size.
Gannet ploughs on with a reefed mainsail
My last tiller pilot had died the night before, so Gannet was sailing on a close reach with the tiller tied down. The first tiller pilot had lasted four thousand miles. In the last 2,400 miles five had failed, including one that had been repaired and failed twice. But they’d lasted long enough to make it possible that we’d make Opua, New Zealand, this day after what had been a three act passage from Neiafu, Tonga.
The first act was fine sailing with Gannet covering half the 1,200 miles between ports in four days. Act two was nearly incredible as we sailed through a high-pressure system. For three days Gannet made only 60 to 70 miles a day, but she did so in zero apparent wind. The days were sunny. The ocean flat and glassy. We might have been in a perfect anchorage except that the water was miles deep.
The little sloop kept moving when almost no other sailboat would have. She was perfectly level. The tiller pilot almost completely silent. Our course straight. There was nothing to cause the slightest deviation. I stood in the companionway and tried to find the wind.
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I turned my head from side to side to feel it against my skin. Nothing. I held up my hand. Nothing. No cat’s-paws on the water. At the masthead the Windex was stuck and useless. Yarn tied to the shrouds hung limp. Gannet sailed on wind imperceptible.
And those 200 miles had brought us to within 40 miles of Opua and act three, a chance to get in before the north-west gale turned south-west and headed us, effectively shutting the door and keeping us at sea for several more days.
I sail without outside assistance. No sponsors. No shore team. No weather routers. But I don’t consider it inconsistent to listen to AM radio as I near land and so had heard the forecast on Radio New Zealand National, but I know how wind circulates around lows in both hemispheres and would have expected the wind to back anyway.
Gannet under sail in San Diego before the start of her voyage
For that matter the radio forecast was partially wrong, predicting the west wind would veer north-west the day before. I very much wished it had. Twenty-five knots aft of the beam would have made the ride easier and faster. We would have been in by now. But the wind remained west until well after dark, and Gannet laboured south on a course of around 210°.
After more than 6,000 miles in four months, the little sloop was unravelling. Tiller pilots dead. The port pipe berth unusable after the tube jumped from its socket when Gannet became airborne off a wave and crashed into a trough. One of the two floorboards split full length. Insufficient solar charging with at least two of the six panels non-functioning.
Gannet ’s interior had never been wetter, messier or more chaotic. Not a dry surface anywhere. I’d slept the night before in full foul weather gear, including sea boots, with a sleeping bag over me as a blanket. We really needed to reach port before the cascade became a torrent.
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MOORE 24 Detailed Review
If you are a boat enthusiast looking to get more information on specs, built, make, etc. of different boats, then here is a complete review of MOORE 24. Built by Moore Sailboats and designed by George Olson, the boat was first built in 1974. It has a hull type of Fin w/spade rudder and LOA is 7.24. Its sail area/displacement ratio 24.55. Its auxiliary power tank, manufactured by undefined, runs on undefined.
MOORE 24 has retained its value as a result of superior building, a solid reputation, and a devoted owner base. Read on to find out more about MOORE 24 and decide if it is a fit for your boating needs.
Boat Information
Boat specifications, sail boat calculation, rig and sail specs, contributions, who designed the moore 24.
MOORE 24 was designed by George Olson.
Who builds MOORE 24?
MOORE 24 is built by Moore Sailboats.
When was MOORE 24 first built?
MOORE 24 was first built in 1974.
How long is MOORE 24?
MOORE 24 is 6.63 m in length.
What is mast height on MOORE 24?
MOORE 24 has a mast height of 7.62 m.
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Displacement (without sails, safety gear, personal gear, outboard motor) and ballast listed are minimum weight per class rules. Nearly all boats were built between 1974-1982 (156?). Moore Sailboats still offers new boats for sail. These new boats are flush deck with open transoms and are class legal.
The Moore 24 is a development of Grendal, a prototype sailboat that was intended for a Transpacific Yacht Race for boats under 30 ft (9.1 m) in length. That race was never held, but Grendal went on to win the 1970 Midget Ocean Racing Class (MORC) championships. Grendal had a beam of under 6 ft (1.8 m), but the production boat was given a wider ...
The Moore 24 is a 23.75ft fractional sloop designed by George Olson, Ron Moore and built in fiberglass by Moore Sailboats between 1972 and 1988. 156 units have been built. The Moore 24 is an ultralight sailboat which is a very high performer. It is very stable / stiff and has a low righting capability if capsized. It is best suited as a racing ...
The Moore 24 is a keelboat designed by Santa Cruz, California surfer/sailor, George Olson, it is one of the first ultralight displacement sailboats, or ULDBs entering production in 1972. This design, along with the Santa Cruz 27 and Olson 30 changed the world of performance sailing with their breakaway downwind speed. Rumor has it that George Olson was going to abandon the mold to the ...
Designed in the 1960s and first produced in 1972, the Moore 24 led the way for an entire generation of ultralight-displacement boats that would serve to cement the place of Santa Cruz, California, in the annals of yacht-racing history. Designed by famed surfer and sailor George Olson, the Moore 24 was first conceived as the longest, lightest ...
10.2. <20: lightweight racing boat. Capsize Screening. 2.3. >2.0: better suited for coastal cruising. Suggest Improvements. Source: sailboatdata.com / CC BY. Embed. Moore 24 is a 23′ 9″ / 7.2 m monohull sailboat designed by George Olson and built by Moore Sailboats between 1972 and 1988.
In 2020, Ron Moore joined forces with Yachtsman and Businessman Blaine Rorick and CFO Samuel Willner to form Moore Sailboats Inc., a new entity which will produce the all-new Alan Andrews-designed Moore 33 sailboat. The Moore 33 is scheduled to launch in the spring of 2022. Moore Sailboats 143 Grove St. Watsonville, Ca 95076 USA tel.(831)763-0196
John comments on Ruby, the first official Moore 24 'Ruby, the oldest boat sailing in this event (the current 24 Nats) I believe, and was our shop boat. It was supposed to have been my boat.' Ron agrees, 'Up until hull number 5 the boats were kind of crude, Ruby is the first one I really called a Moore 24.' Ruby just had a major refit, including ...
The Moore 24 is a well-regarded American sailboat, designed by George Olson and Ron Moore as a racer in 1972. It's built predominantly of fiberglass, featuring a fractional sloop rig and a fixed fin keel, with a draft of 4.08 feet. The Moore 24 is celebrated for its racing performance and has a notable history in competitive sailing.
Moore 24 Racing (Class Assoc.) Related Sailboats: Sort by: ... 1 Sailboats / Per Page: 25 / Page: 1. 0 CLICK to COMPARE . MODEL LOA FIRST BUILT FAVORITE COMPARE; MOORE 24: 23.75 ft / 7.24 m: 1974: ShipCanvas. KiwiGrip. Bruntons. Rudder Craft. EWOL. SBD App Non-BR ...
FishOut Of Water- the Moore 24 fleet gets invited to go Land Sailing. Moore 24 gathering at Misfits Flat on September 7, 8, and 9. Lester Robertson ... Moore 24 Class August 30, 2018.
About Moore 24 National Association. The original Santa Cruz-built ULDB. Design. Boats Produced: 150. Class boat builder(s): Moore Sailboats. Approximately how many boats are in the USA/North America? 150. Where is your One-Design class typically sailed in the USA? List regions of the country:
MOORE 24 Sailboat Data Hull Type: Fin w/spade rudder Rigging Type: Fractional Sloop LOA: 23.75 ft / 7.24 m LWL: 21.75 ft / 6.63 m S.A. (reported): 247.00 ft² / 22.95 m² Beam: 7.17 ft / 2.19 m Displacement: 2,050.00 lb / 930 kg Ballast: 1,000.00 lb / 454 kg…
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If you are a boat enthusiast looking to get more information on specs, built, make, etc. of different boats, then here is a complete review of MOORE 24. Built by Moore Sailboats and designed by George Olson, the boat was first built in 1974. It has a hull type of Fin w/spade rudder and LOA is 7.24. Its sail area/displacement ratio 24.55.
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200. norcal™. Sep 22, 2017. #15. Steam Flyer said: The Moore 24 is not a boat to keep one "safe as possible regardless of skill/attention level." It's a mini-sled, a boat designed to go fast downwind and to race in light/flat (ish) water. It would be exciting to cruise in, and pretty damn uncomfortable.
The second boat I owned was a stock Moore 24 which I saied in the Single handed Transpac and won in 1980. I owned a Santa Cruz 27 that I traded for the 24 to do that race. For whatever reason at the time I thought it would be a better boat for the Transpac. Maybe it was the way it went down wind with the spinnaker and blooper?
We got an e-mail from Webb asking for information on the Falklands . . . he is apparently setting off on a moore 24.. Typically Webb he said "I am not in fact setting off on a new adventure. ... 1 1/2 or 2 around the worlds in an open boat it may feel quite homey. 01-01-2014, 20:16 #4: fstbttms. Hull Diver . Join Date: Oct 2006.