Welcome aboard! Ranger & Nordic Tugs would be great, but they are very high dollar. A member of our local Lake Pleasant AZ sailing club has a C-Dory 25, a step up from the 22. If I recall correctly the outboard it has is a Honda, either 135 or 150, I'm not sure which. It also has a 9 horse trolling/kicker motor. A planing boat with an open aft cockpit & large pilot house with galley & dinette & a low ceiling vee berth up in the bow. Very nice & seaworthy boats, but again, a high dollar price tag in the upper 5 figures.
Our boat's average fuel burn rate is between 0.4 to 0.5 gallons per hour at a full displacement hull speed of 6.5 knots at 2,350 RPM on the 24 HP Yanmar 3GM30F turning a 16 1/2 X 12 prop. That works out to better than 13 NM per gallon, a figure few boats other than a similar sized sailboat can match.
There are lots of pictures on the internet to get an idea of what Albin 25's look like inside & out. The main points to be aware of is that there were two variants, the early full displacement hulls built between 1969 and 1973 or '74, and the later ones built after 1974 which were designated "DeLuxe". The later DeLuxe models were an attempt to achieve higher speeds with a 'semi-displacement' hull in which the last 4 or so feet of the bottom was flared downward, and the OEM engine HP was raised to 36, or in some cases where they were repowered by owners later on with 38 to 40 HP engines. Original engines were Albin's own two cylinder AD21's in the frist few years, then in later boats switched various models of Volvo engines through the end of the production run. Also, as round hull boats they do have a tendency to sharply snap roll 15 degrees to one side & 15 degrees to the other in rough beam seas, so hopefully you're not prone to seasickness.
Here's the basic difference between the early displacement models (like ours):
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And the later DeLuxe version, in this case a 1977
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In any case any Albin 25 you're likely to find will be a least 40 years old, on up to 48 years, and each one is different in one way or another from a myriad of owner modifications made over the years and in many cases have been re-powered at some point, sometimes with Volvo engines, other times with Yanmar, Beta, Universal, Vetus to name a few. Most if not all boats will have bow pulpit rails. Many do not have stern rails, and of those that do the older ones have stern rails that run the full width of the transom, later ones have split stern rails like the one shown in the 2nd photo of the 1977 model. A few boats have full length life lines running bow to stern like ours does, but many do not. With the possible exception of the Willard, they are also much more rare & difficult to find than Rangers, Nordics, or C-Dorys.
Happy hunting!
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