title: Buccaneer 250
text: # Buccaneer 250
  
  The Buccaneer 250 is an American trailerable sailboat, that was designed by Gary Mull and first built in 1978. The design is out of production.
  
  ## Production
  
  The boat was built by Buccaneer Yachts/US Yachts, a division of Bayliner, which is itself a division of the Brunswick Boat Group, which is in turn owned by the Brunswick Corporation.
  
  The design was later developed into the US Yachts US 25 and the Triton 25.
  
  ## Design
  
  The Buccaneer 250 is a small recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, a spade-type rudder, a conventional fin keel giving a draft of 4.67 ft (1.42 m) or, optionally, a shoal-draft keel, giving a draft of 3.50 ft (1.07 m).
  
  It displaces 3,750 lb (1,701 kg), carries 1,250 lb (567 kg) of ballast and has a hull speed of 6.2 kn (11.48 km/h).
  
  The Buccaneer 250 has a PHRF racing average handicap of 219 with a high of 216 and low of 225.
  
  ## Variants
  
  ### Buccaneer 250
  
      Version with an outboard motor, displacement of 3,750 lb (1,701 kg) and a length overall of 25.00 ft (7.62 m).
  
  ### Buccaneer 255
  
      Version with an inboard motor, displacement of 4,100 lb (1,860 kg) and a length overall of 25.50 ft (7.77 m).
  