Hughes Columbia Columbia 24 For Sale & Buying Center

"Columbia produced three 24 foot models more or less concurrently. I owned a 1964 Columbia 24 with the full trunk cabin and I have been aboard Contenders and a Challenger. I believe that these three boat share essentially the same hull. The Contender and Challenger are the same up to the sheerline. Columbia extended the hull up and created the Columbia 24. The Contender is a short cabin trunk and the Challenger is a raised deck design. It wasn't until 1962 that the name Columbia came into being. Glas Laminates contracted Sparkman & Stephens to design a boat which they called the Columbia 29. The company adopted the name Columbia in '62 (or '63?), so there may still be a few Challengers out there that pre-date the Columbia name. "