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Featured Boat 33' Allied Luders 1969 US$ 29,900                                                                Why Consider an Allied Boat?  Perhaps it is easier to explain first what an Allied boat is not (with one exception, the Chance 30-30).  Allied boats are not round the buoy racers.  They are not floating condos.  They are not design trendy with swim platform sterns, straight sheers, and destroyer vertical bows.  They are not deep fin or wing keel and they are not light weights.  They are, simply stated, good sea boats!  What does that mean?  “Good sea boat” is a design and strength of build statement.  They were designed to endure long passages in a very broad range of sea conditions with minimal crew and providing maximum safety and comfort for that crew.  As a result you will find some common design attributes that are typical for just about all Allied boats: They are robust! They are noted for their sweeping sheer line, high bows, and bow and stern over hangs.  This provides reserve buoyancy to keep the boat dry in a heading sea and less likely to get pooped in a following sea.  Many “coastal cruisers” when transiting a seaway are notorious for submarining.  Ask the folks who move boats up and down the coast for a living.  Water line length has little to do with being sea kindly. They are most often rigged as ketches, yawls or cutters.  This provides more sail combinations and smaller individual sails for easier handling by one or two people. They are “traditional,” and exhibit the proven design queues of those who have designed boats for going to sea not weekend dock parties.  That is why most are full or modified full keels. They are purposeful and therefore beautiful!