The Crystal 23 is a British trailerable sailboat that was designed by Alan Buchanan as a cruiser and first built in 1961.
[1][3][4] The design was built by French Brothers and Seamaster Limited, and were fitted out by Stebbings & Sons in the United Kingdom, starting in 1961, but it is now out of production.
[1][3][5][6] The Crystal 23 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with wood trim.
It has a masthead sloop rig, a spooned raked stem, an angled transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel with a weighted bulb or optional bilge keels.
It is fitted with a Swedish Volvo inboard engine for docking and maneuvering.