Updated specs on the 23

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Sep 26, 2008
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Oday 23 Long Beach
I found a website for yacht designs by C Raymond Hunt where it list all of his designs. It shows there were two designs for the 23. The first design was for O'day Corp. designated as "Oday 23-1" and lists a displacement of 3085#. The second design was when Bangor Punta Corp owned ODay and designated as "Oday 23-2" This design shows a displacement of 3425#.
 
Sep 26, 2008
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Oday 23 Long Beach
I googled "Yacht designs by Raymond Hunt". It came back "Yacht designs of Raymond Hunt" on Sailboatdata.com website. There you will find the two O'day 23 designs & specs. To me, the addition of the cockpit cooler, Ice box under the steps, storage areas under the sink & stove and general sturdness of the cabin trunk has added considerable more fiberglass to the later models.
 

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Oct 1, 2007
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Oday 23 Manhasset Bay, LI
Yep, mine is the 23-1. The older design has it's cabin passageway offset. It's centered in the 23-2.
 
Jun 2, 2004
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Oday Day Sailer Wareham, MA
Bangor Punta owned O'DAY during the production of both boats (BP bought O'DAY in 1965 and sold the assets to Lear Siegler in around 1986). The so-called O'DAY 23-1 was built in the 1971-74 model years, perhaps 1970-75? The So-Called 23-2 was built from 1977-85. Primary differences are the early boat had a cast-iron keel with fiberglass centerboard, draft 2' bd/up, 5'5" bd/dn. !977-85 model had lead ballast contained within the fiberglass keel (molded as part of hull) and again, a fiberglass centerboard with draft of 2'3" bd/up and 5'4" bd/dn.
The 1970-2 models were offered in 2 versions, a pop-top and a fixed top, the pop-top was designed to allow the entire cabin trunk to be raised to allow standing headroom in the entire cabin (well exect the v-berth), this boat had the offset companionway. Disadvantage was that the cabin trunk slid up and down the mast as it was raised/lowered so the mast had to be keel-stepped and that made trailering harder. During the 1973 model year O'Day phased in a new pop-top version that I belive became the only version available on the 23-1 after that. on htis version only the part of the cabin top aft of the mast was raised, this allowed the mast to be deck-stepped in a tabernacle and was much less prone to leaks on a rainy day. This version still had the cast iron keel/fiberglass CB.
The later (1977-85) version was styled more like a smaller 25 and was never offered with a pop-top. I think a few of these might have been built with a fin-keel (like the tall-rig 25) in place of the K/CB, but I'm not sure. A few were also sold with factory installed OMC Zephyr 2-stroke inboards (15 hp sail-drive).
 

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Catalina 27 3657 Lake Monroe
You are correct about the fin keel. I was talking to Rudy one day about options available on the 23 and he mentioned that a few were made with a fin keel, quite a sweet, but very rare boat.
 
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