PRICE REDUCTION!!!!

Rob Legg Yacht’s classic trailer-sailer, the RL24. Australia’s most popular trailer-sailer with over 500 sold in this country and renowned for being very forgiving. The RL24 is just the right size for a family yacht. It is small enough to be comfortably rigged and handled by two people (even one in a pinch) but large enough for comfortable sailing with six people in the cockpit, and comfortable berths for four.

Sadly, work commitments and travel have meant that the RL 24 is just not getting as much use as we would have liked, and the yacht is unlikely to be taken out in the foreseeable future. Better that someone else gets to enjoy it. 

 Characteristics:
Model:            RL 24 Mark III

Built               : 1982
Salis               : Main, Jib, Genoa, Spinnaker
Engine            : 4.5 HP Honda Inboard/Outboard (4.5 HP means you don’t need a licence)
Berths            : 2 at the front (3 in a pinch) plus one port and one starboard, for a total of four, or maybe five with the kids
Toilet             : No
Fresh Water   : 100L Turtle-Pac and tap
Kitchen           : Twin burner stove, insulated cold storage tub, no sink.
Ignition          : pull-start
Cabin area     : Timber table top over the keel
Steering         : Tiller
Radio             : Marine band radio, EPIRB
Trailer          : Roadworthy, new winch and cable.

Accessories: Tender and oars, seat pads, bimini (sun shade), turtle-pac, carpet, inboard and outboard engine mounting.

The hull is in good shape and I have done all the necessary minor chip/scratch repairs in the past 12 months. Any rigging that needed replacing has also been done. With an untrained ‘crew’ of teenage kids it takes around 20 minutes from the time you pull into the rigging lane until you are in the water.

The cabin interior is basic but very functional and comfortably allows 4-5 people to have a weekend away without problem. The wall/ceiling carpeting is a little tired and could be replaced in due course.

The trailer in roadworthy and in good condition. The winch and cable is a heavy duty model and less than six months old.

The outboard motor is a Honda 4.5hp so you do not need a watercraft licence under the current laws. The motor can be mounted outboard on an adapter mount on the transom, this allows it to be drawn completely out of the water if you want to race. However, I found it much simpler to mount the motor in the well and suffer the tiny amount of drag created by the prop being permanently in the water. Your choice.

The good thing about the RL24 is that it draws only 12” of water and has a retractable swing-keel, so can be launched almost anywhere and can be beached for an overnight stay.

I will be very sorry to see ‘AREL’ go. The few times we had her on the water were fabulous and it is only the lack of opportunity for sailing that causes us to reluctantly let her go.

Link to the original Rob Legge RL 24 brochure: