Allegra 24

[ebb]

Here's a small box of candy on
google Allegra Cutter 1989/2009 Sail Boat For Sail - www.yachtworld.com
www.yachtworld.com/boats/1989/Allegra-Cutter.../United-States

This truly is my favorite OTHER boat.
I think it was a GoodOldBoat article that described them as the most pampered boat in any marina. I believe Frank Durant got himself a Flicka awhile back - but I'll bet he really wanted an Allegra.
I think all of us small boat aficionados secretly yearn for one. It even has a separate head!!!
M mmmm M M M m! Glazed mahogany and creamy enamel.
Presently, there are two on yachtworld.com - this is the one with a bicycle in the foreground. It's a steal at $38,000!

Enjoy,
as they say at the deli counter!
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Type in on google: Allegra 24
yachtworld.com gets the home page - type in Search: Allegra Cutter.
Worth it.

[MRH]

I anchored next to an Allegra 24 at Swans Island in Penobscot Bay on my first cruise in 1985. I didn't know what it was but it was captivating. When the sun went down, the interior was lit by a kerosene lantern. Despite its simplicity, it seemed like all the boat anybody would ever need. When I got up the next morning, it was gone. I've always hoped to see another and find out what it was but I guess they're pretty scarce on the East Coast.

Ebb - thanks for pointing out this special boat. One of life's great mysteries solved.

Mike Hoff
Nonsuch 26 #112 Evelyn May
former caretaker of Commander 131, Francine

[CapnK]

That Allegra w/the bike, I recognize her - it's 'Roo', of boatyardpirates.com (http://boatyardpirates.com/) fame. :)

[Tim D.]

Yes I noticed who's it was, wonder if they moving up or inland?

[ebb]

It is a nice site, the ROO site, colorful and happy, nice fotos and videos of beautiful people and music.

Like this place here, it's sometimes difficult to find a time line, or context.

So I'm assuming from something I read there just now that their partnership fell apart and I guess he has taken it hard enough to get rid of the boat.


It happened to me with an almost from scratch wood boat, couldn't take any reminders of the old life going away, advertised that it was for sale. Had all kinds of jerks come aboard and tell me what was wrong with it.
One day finally donated it to a charity who said they liked it, would teach kids how to sail with it, gave it a decent value and I wrote it off for taxes.

We, my daughter's mother and aye, had put thousands of hours into the boat.
We found the last remaining Egyptian cotton in the US and she literally hand sewed and roped the sails (thx to Donald Goring) including the huge loosefoot main.
I had taken a questionable planked hull, raised the sides, and fiberglassed it successfully with drums of polyester from Abe Schuster.
Made everything out of teak and plywood. Sealed deck and cockpit with Borden's Lagging Adhesive over Yellow Jacket.
Glued up and shaped spruce mast, boom and gaff - turned it into a 29' old style cutter with a reeving bowsprit.
Spliced, parceled, served and leathered all the rigging. Made roped wood blocks.... On and on.

My po' lit'l heart was broke, SO I GAVE THAT CUTTER AWAY!
What a dumb thing to do.

[CapnK]

Wow - I last looked at their site not a week ago, so all that is new. So sad! I hope it works out best for all concerned, including 'Roo'. They lavished attention and care onto her.

Makes me think that I'm likely "a jerk", and a single-minded one, at that, because - I'll always keep the boat!

I know I'm a miserable person to be around without one, at least. Know it, because of 'Been there, done that...", and wound up, after the girl, getting this boat, and life has been much, much better since. ;) Maybe - some day - I'll meet a woman who loves me boats as much as I do. :p :D

Ebb - that story of yours, is true? What kind of boat was she? Knowing your skill and proclivities - I bet she was a beauty!