Tartan 27 Yawl Explained

Tartan 27 Yawl
Image Boat:File:Curlew side profile.jpg
Designer:Sparkman & Stephens
Location:United States
Year:1961
No Built:about 25
Builder:Douglass & McLeod
Tartan Marine
Role:Cruiser
Draft:6.33feet with centerboard down
Displacement:74000NaN0
Hull Type:monohull
Construction:fiberglass
Loa:27feet
Lwl:21.42feet
Beam:8.58feet
Engine:Universal Atomic 4 300NaN0 gasoline engine
Keel Type:modified long keel with cutaway forefoot, plus centerboard
Ballast:24000NaN0
Rudder Type:keel-mounted rudder
Rig Type:Yawl
I:33.5feet
J:9.83feet
P:29.5feet
E:13feet
Rig Other:PY: 13feet
EY: 5.67feet
Sailplan:Masthead yawl
Sailarea Main:191.75square feet
Sailarea Headsail:164.65square feet
Sails Other:mizzen sail: 36.86square feet
Sailarea Total:393.26square feet
Previous:Tartan 27
Successor:Tartan 27-2

The Tartan 27 Yawl is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Sparkman & Stephens as a cruiser and first built in 1961.[1] [2] [3] [4]

The Tartan 27 Yawl is a development of the Tartan 27 sloop, with a shorter main mast and the addition of a mizzen mast with a sail of 36.86square feet mounted in the lazarette. The Tartan 27 series was developed into the Tartan 27-2 in 1976.[1] [2] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Darrell Nicholson of Practical Sailor, noted of the Tartan 27 Yawl, "a small number of 27s, for what we assume was quaintness rather than any practical reason, were rigged as yawls with handkerchief-sized mizzens on a mast stepped into the lazarette."[9]

Production

Production was initially by Douglass & McLeod at their Grand River, Ohio factory, starting in 1961 and ending in 1971 when the plant burned down. Production was then assumed by a new company, Tartan Marine, established in nearby Painesville, Ohio, in 1971. Only about 25 Tartan 27 Yawls were built.[1] [2] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]

Design

The Tartan 27 Yawl is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead yawl rig, a raked stem, an angled transom, a keel-mounted rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed modified long keel with a cutaway forefoot and a retractable centerboard. It displaces 74000NaN0 and carries 24000NaN0 of ballast.[1] [2]

The design has a draft of 6.33feet with the centerboard extended and 3.17feet with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water or ground transportation on a trailer, when towed by a vehicle with enough power to safely accommodate the boat's weight.[1] [2]

The boat is fitted with a 300NaN0 Universal Atomic 4 gasoline engine for docking and maneuvering and has a hull speed of 6.2kn.[1] [2] [15]

The design has a hull speed of 6.2kn.[2]

Operational history

Robert Manry, along with his wife Virginia, his son and daughter, a German shepherd dog and a cat, sailed his 1967 Tartan 27 Yawl, named Curlew from Cleveland, Ohio, across the Great Lakes, down the Mississippi River, through the Gulf of Mexico to the Bahamas, north along the US east coast and then back to his point of departure, Cleveland. The voyage was accomplished from July 1967 until July 1968.[16]

See also

Related development

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tartan 27 Yawl. 21 August 2022. McArthur. Bruce . sailboatdata.com. 2022. https://archive.today/20220819142237/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/tartan-27-yawl. 19 August 2022. live.
  2. Web site: Tartan 27 Yawl. 19 August 2022. Sea Time Tech, LLC. sailboat.guide. 2022. https://archive.today/20220819152807/https://sailboat.guide/tartan/27-yawl. 19 August 2022. live.
  3. Web site: Sparkman & Stephens. 21 August 2022. McArthur. Bruce . sailboatdata.com. 2022. https://archive.today/20200810200933/https://sailboatdata.com/designer/sparkman-stephens. 10 August 2020. live.
  4. Web site: Sparkman & Stephens. 19 August 2022. Sea Time Tech, LLC. sailboat.guide. 2022. https://archive.today/20220621155228/https://sailboat.guide/sparkman-stephens. 21 June 2022. live.
  5. Web site: Tartan 27 sailboat . 19 August 2022. McArthur. Bruce. sailboatdata.com. 2022. https://archive.today/20220819142213/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/tartan-27. 19 August 2022. live.
  6. Web site: Tartan 27. 19 August 2022. Sea Time Tech, LLC. sailboat.guide. 2022. https://archive.today/20220819142303/https://sailboat.guide/tartan/27. 19 August 2022. live.
  7. Web site: Tartan 27-2. 21 August 2022. McArthur. Bruce . sailboatdata.com. 2022. https://archive.today/20220819142240/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/tartan-27-2. 19 August 2022. live.
  8. Web site: Tartan 27-2. 19 August 2022. Sea Time Tech, LLC. sailboat.guide. 2022. https://archive.today/20220819152805/https://sailboat.guide/tartan/27-2. 19 August 2022. live.
  9. Web site: Tartan 27. 19 August 2022. Nicholson. Darrell. Practical Sailor. 14 June 2000. https://archive.today/20220819142319/https://www.practical-sailor.com/sailboat-reviews/used_sailboats/tartan-27. 19 August 2022. live.
  10. Web site: Douglass & McLeod 1951 - 1971. 21 August 2022. McArthur. Bruce . sailboatdata.com. 2022. https://archive.today/20201002224410/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/douglass-mcleod. 2 October 2020. live.
  11. Web site: Douglass & McLeod. 19 August 2022. Sea Time Tech, LLC. sailboat.guide. 2022. https://archive.today/20220819142313/https://sailboat.guide/douglass-mcleod. 19 August 2022. live.
  12. Web site: Tartan Marine. 21 August 2022. McArthur. Bruce . sailboatdata.com. 2022. https://archive.today/20210505173950/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/tartan-marine. 5 May 2021. live.
  13. Web site: Tartan Yachts. 19 August 2022. Sea Time Tech, LLC. sailboat.guide. 2022. https://archive.today/20211215202048/https://sailboat.guide/tartan. 15 December 2021. live.
  14. Web site: Tartan Classic: T27. 19 August 2022. Tartan Yachts. Tartan Marine. tartanyachts.com. 2022. https://archive.today/20220819142250/http://www.tartanyachts.com/t27/. 19 August 2022. live.
  15. Web site: Tartan 27: Classic Pocket Cruiser. 19 August 2022. Doane. Charles. Boats.com. 8 June 2010. https://archive.today/20220819142254/https://www.boats.com/reviews/tartan-27-classic-pocket-cruiser/. 19 August 2022. live.
  16. Web site: Voyages - Cruise of the Curlew, around eastern U.S., 1967 - 1968 . Manry . Robert. www.robertmanryproject.com. 21 August 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20171107020945/http://www.robertmanryproject.com/curlew/. 7 November 2017. live.

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