Hughes Columbia Columbia 28 For Sale & Buying Center

"The Bill Crealock designed C-28 was a departure from the early C-24, C-26, and C-29 designs. The boxy cabin and ports were traded for the ""bullet shaped"" main windows and the bump in the main cabin roof. But the big difference was below the waterline. The C-28 was a skeg on skeg design and one of the first fin keel Columbias.

According to John Broughton, the list kept by the Columbia sales dept. shows that 553 C-28's were built from 1967 to 1975. There is no mention of any change from a C-28 to a C-28 MkII is indicated on the sheet.

One detail I've been trying to nail down is interior construction. My '64 C-24 is a fiberglass shell with an all-wooden interior as is a '64 C-24 Challenger. I had thought that Columbia switched to interiors that were mostly fiberglass in '65 or '66, but an early C-28 (hull #8) is reported to be: ...all wood all over. It's painted over, but there is no fiberglass except the hull and exterior decks, soles and cockpit. Later C-28s had fiberglass interiors."