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Review of Alu 24


Basic specs.

sail specifications
The Alu 24 is a sailboat.

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Hull

The hull is made of aluminium.


Keel

Fin keel

The Alu 24 is built with a fin keel. The fin keel is the most common keel and provides splendid manoeuvrability. The downside is that it has less directional stability than a long keel.


Sailing characteristics

This section covers widely used rules of thumb to describe the sailing characteristics. Please note that even though the calculations are correct, the interpretation of the results might not be valid for extreme boats.

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Sailing statistics

This section is statistical comparison with similar boats of the same category. The basis of the following statistical computations is our unique database with more than 26,000 different boat types and 350,000 data points.

L/B (Length Beam Ratio)

What is L/B (Length Beam Ratio)?

The l/b ratio for Alu 24 is 3.02.

Wide Slim 58% 0 50 100
Compared with other similar sailboats it is slimmer than 58% of all other designs. It seems that the designer has chosen a slightly more speedy hull design.


Maintenance

Rig

If you need to renew parts of your running rig and is not quite sure of the dimensions, you may find the estimates computed below useful.



Guiding dimensions of running rig
UsageLengthDiameter
Jib sheet 7.4 m(24.2 feet)10 mm(3/8 inch)
Genoa sheet 7.4 m(24.2 feet)10 mm(3/8 inch)
Mainsheet 18.4 m(60.4 feet)10 mm(3/8 inch)
Spinnaker sheet16.2 m(53.2 feet)10 mm(3/8 inch)

Boat owner's ideas

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Finally

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