NANCY JEAN

Lake Tahoe Boat...Fresh Water Only

NANCY JEAN is a family friendly trailerable pocket cruiser. Gerry Douglas and the rest of the design team at Catalina got this right!

The ballast is 1,200 pounds of water carried in the bilge. There are 90 pounds of lead in the centerboard to overcome the buoyancy of the board. The advantage of the water ballast is that you can quickly reduce the weight of the boat down to 2,400 pounds for trailering.

The deck is carefully sculpted, with the cabintrunk extending almost to the rail. This is great for volume below. The large cockpit opens to a convenient swim step area to port.

Below, the 250 is handsomely detailed. You can sleep four on this boat. There is a reasonably sized head to port adjacent to an equally reasonable galley to starboard. The icebox is a cooler stowed below the counter.

The rig is a pivoting masthead sloop with swept spreaders. When we include the ballast water with the dry displacement, the SA/D is 18.45.

The profile of the Catalina 250 is quite handsome! Given the volumetric demands, combined with trailering limits, the designers at Catalina have done a nice job keeping the profile low and the lines drawn out to avoid a stubby look. Catalina always seems to find its own look without leaning on Euro styling.

The conveniences of water ballast and trailerability make for a great weekender.