| San Juan 24 | |
| Image Boat: | File:SJ24racing.jpg |
| Designer: | Bruce Kirby |
| Location: | United States |
| Year: | 1973 |
| No Built: | 1200 |
| Builder: | Clark Boat Company |
| Draft: | 4feet |
| Displacement: | 32000NaN0 |
| Hull Type: | Monohull |
| Construction: | Fiberglass |
| Loa: | 24feet |
| Lwl: | 19.5feet |
| Beam: | 8feet |
| Engine: | Outboard motor |
| Keel Type: | fin keel |
| Ballast: | 16500NaN0 |
| Rudder Type: | internally-mounted spade-type rudder |
| Rig Type: | Bermuda rig |
| I: | 30feet |
| J: | 9.5feet |
| P: | 26feet |
| E: | 8feet |
| Sailplan: | Masthead sloop |
| Sailarea Main: | 104square feet |
| Sailarea Headsail: | 142.5square feet |
| Sailarea Total: | 246.5square feet |
| Phrf: | 219 (average) |
| Successor: | San Juan 23 |
The San Juan 24 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Bruce Kirby as an International Offshore Rule Quarter Ton class racer.[1] [2] [3]
The design was later developed into the more cruising-oriented San Juan 23 in 1975.[4]
The design was built by the Clark Boat Company in Kent, Washington, United States, starting in 1973 but it is now out of production. A total of 1200 examples of the design were built.[1] [5]
The San Juan 24 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, a raked stem, a raised reverse transom, an internally-mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel. It displaces 32000NaN0 and carries 16500NaN0 of lead ballast.[1]
The boat has a draft of 4feet with the standard keel fitted and is normally fitted with a small 3to outboard motor for docking and maneuvering.[1] [3]
The design has sleeping accommodation for five people. Cabin headroom is 540NaN0.[3]
The design has a PHRF racing average handicap of 219 with a high of 231 and low of 216. It has a hull speed of 5.922NaN2.[6]
In a 2010 review Steve Henkel wrote, "Don Clark, designer of the San Juan 21 Mk I and II ... and owner of the Clark Boat Company of Kent, WA, went to Bruce Kirby for a hot new racer to be designed to the IOR Quarter Ton Rule. Clark imposed two important restrictions to broaden the market beyond the macho racer group: the boat could not draw more than 4' 0" or be wider than 8' 0", making the boat more useable in shoal waters and making trailering a little easier.Best features: The boat has been a success (and, at least so far, is the most popular quarter tonner ever), with over a thousand sailing, Worst features: Although she is fast and weatherly going upwind, dead downwind in heavy air under spinnaker she can be a little squirrelly, possibly a result of her narrow underbody aft."[3]
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