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The following information and photographs are
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No reliance should be placed on other yachts of the same class being
identical. Where common variations exist, we have endeavoured
to indicate this in these archive details. The price guide
covers the normal ranges of age and condition. Exceptional boats,
whether good or bad, may fall outside these guidelines. |
Contessa 25 (Rogers) |
Price Guide |
£4,000 to £7,500
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Builder |
Jeremy Rogers, Lymington |
LOA |
25' 2" |
Sail area |
350 sq ft * |
Brief details |
LWL |
21' 0" |
Rig |
sloop |
Although also built
by Jeremy Rogers, the Contessa 25 is totally different to the much
better known long-keeled Contessa 26 design - this is a modern fin-keel
design. These boats were designed as Quarter Ton Cup racers, although
they were also fitted out as fast little cruiser-racers. |
Beam |
9' 6" |
Cabins |
1 |
Draught |
5' 2" |
Berths |
2 |
Displacement |
4,700 lbs |
Engine |
Vire petrol inboard |
Ballast |
not known |
BHP |
7 |
Keel type |
Hardened lead fin keel with semi-balanced rudder
mounted on vestigial skeg |
Note that there
was also another earlier totally different design also called the
Contessa 25 - these being nothing to do with Jeremy Rogers or the
other Contessa yachts. These Contessa 25s were Robert Tucker designed
25-footers built in cold-moulded wood by Bridge Boats at Reading
in the 1960s, and looking much like a bigger version of the well
known Robert Tucker Corribee 21-footer. |
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Built in small numbers by Jeremy Rogers in
the early 1980s, the Contessa 25 was designed as a Quarter
Ton Cup cruiser-racer. They are typical racing boats of that
era, beamy, with plenty of sail area, and fast to windward,
and the Contessa 25 manages to be much prettier than most
similar quarter-tonners.
* The nominal sail area, as calculated by the IOR rules, was
350 sq ft for the standard rig as shown on the plan at left.
The actual sail area for main and genoa will be higher.
This particular yacht illustrated in the photos here has had
a substantially taller fractional rig added - the plan at
left shows the rig as designed.
Prices of these boats may vary greatly, depending on the
standard of the internal fit-out, and whether the original
petrol engine has been replaced with a small modern diesel.
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