Here we see the Roberts 25 fitted with the sloop rig as per the plans.  Other rigs are possible including the junk rig shown below.
 

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This is Ozzie a Roberts 25 owned and sailed by Malcolm Burton ... Malcolm enjoys his sailing in and around SCOTLAND and would like to hear from other Roberts 25 owners.

Shoal draft Underwater Shape
 

Regular Keel Underwater Shape
 

Above left: Roberts 25 fitted for shoal keel - a center-board arrangement is also possible.

Below left: Roberts 25; deep keel version - this version is steel trailerable and we have seen and built many trailerable version fitted with this keel

Here we see just two of several possible layouts for this boat. Full  headroom is featured in all versions.

This junk rig version proved handy on all points of sail and a joy to her owner.

The Roberts 25 makes an ideal trailer sailer as over 1,000 owners have discovered over the past many years.

Another Roberts 25 lies at anchor in a cove on the Australian coastline.

Hi Bruce,

Just thought I would let you know that I used to own a Roberts 25 design which I delivered up the coast from Batemans Bay to Sydney. When the weather finally turned in my favour I had no crew so, inspired by the ability of the Roberts design, I decided to sail her solo to Sydney.  

The Roberts 25 had a tiller pilot but no lifelines. I clipped myself on with a harness for the full duration of the voyage which was lucky as I encountered some serious weather. It ended up being 4 to 5 metre seas with a following breeze gusting to 40 knots. The waves were constantly breaking as they loomed above me but the Roberts held her course well and I never broached. In fact no water ever came aboard as she lifted to each wave and her hull shape gave a safe comfortable motion. In any other boat of the same size I would have been **** scared. My tiller pilot failed so at one stage I was on the helm for 12 hours straight until I could duck into Jervis Bay for a rest.

An excellent and very seaworthy design. Thank you so much for that. Best Regards, Colin Skinner
 

The cockpit is similar in all the versions of this very popular cruising trailerable sailboat.

Here we see the Roberts 25 pilot house version fitted with the sloop rig as per the plans.  Other rigs are possible including the junk rig shown above.

Here we see the Roberts 25 pilot house with deep keel option and standard accomodation layout for this version.

Roberts 25 pilot house featuring the shoal keel arrangement. There are many more photos shown in the study plans on CD package.

'Margie' is a good sea boat having cruised the West Coast from Scotland to the Channel Islands and Ireland.

She has excellent standing headroom in the saloon/wheelhouse and good head height in the fore-cabin. She is built with a strong 1" thick hull based on a Bruce Roberts sailing hull therefore her sailing performance is superior to that normally expected of traditional motor sailers.

The hull was epoxy treated as a preventative measure in 1999 and the interior professionally fitted out in 2000.

This illustration shows the male hull mold covered with either thin inexpensive plywood or hard-board followed by the inner fiberglass laminate, next either foam or balsa core and finally the outer layers of fiberglass. Note the area of the keel is not cored but has additional fiberglass laminate to provide maximum strength in this area.