Allied Yachts for Sale

Allied Boat Company was formed on 9 February 1962 with about 132,000 dollars and a set of molds, put together by the racing sailor Thor Ramsing with Lunn Laminates and the brokerage Northrop & Johnson, on Catskill Creek just off the Hudson. The first design was Thomas Gillmer's 30 foot Seawind of 1960. Northam Warren took control in 1964 and ran the good years, and Allied became the first builder to supply fiberglass hulls in colors other than white. The line ran from 30 to 42 feet with drawings from Gillmer, Sparkman & Stephens, Bill Luders, Arthur Edmunds and Maclear & Harris: the Seabreeze 35, of which 135 were built between 1963 and 1972, the Luders 33, the Chance 30, the Seawind II ketch of 1975, the Mistress, and the Princess 36 of 1972, the most successful of them all at about 140 hulls. Resin prices after the oil shock, arguments at the top and a bad market finished it. The company failed repeatedly in its last years and was rescued under the Wright Yacht Company, CFG Allied and International Cruising Yachts names before closing for good in 1981; the equipment went at auction in June 1984 for 40,000 dollars.

An Allied is a heavily built boat from the period when heavy was normal: generous hand layup with extra glass where it is loaded, full and partial bulkheads tabbed in, solid bronze rudder stocks, and a hull to deck joint bolted through a flange with adhesive, capped with an aluminum extrusion and glassed on the inside. That joint is a large part of why forty and fifty year old examples are still crossing oceans. Buy one for that and accept the rest: they are slow, sea kindly and modest below, with small tankage and cramped systems. On a Seawind II the diesel sits under the cockpit sole behind the seat lockers, which is a real consideration if a repower is anywhere in your future, and early boats had black iron fuel tanks that corrode. Quality control slipped in the last years under the rescue owners, so judge the boat in front of you and find out when and under whom it was built. There has been no factory since 1981, no warranty and no parts source of any kind, so everything comes from generic marine supply or gets made. What exists instead is an unusually active owners' community that keeps records model by model. Survey for age and for water: deck core around every fitting, chainplates and their bedding, the rudder and shaft, keelbolts where fitted, tanks, and every original hose and seacock, and price in the engine and the standing rigging unless the paperwork proves they are recent.