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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 36.86 sq ft (3.424 m 2) mounted in the lazarette.
The plans for the hull of a 26-ft yawl built for the Royal Navy in 1809 in Portsmouth Dockyard. It is fitted for 10 oars. The yawl as a type of Royal Navy ship's boat appeared early in the second half of the 17th century. In early mentions, they were sometimes referred to as "Norway yawls", so showing a Scandinavian influence.
Owner(s) James Lowe (1937–c.1940) [2] Coast Guard Academy (1955–1968) Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship (1968–1999) Laura Kilbourne (1999-2010) Phil Jordan, Pat Tierney, Claes Goran Nilsson, and Melinda Kilkenny (2010-) Racing career; Notable victories: Chicago-Mackinac Cup - 1938 [3] Specifications; Type: Marconi-rigged yawl: Displacement
Mizzen: the aftmost mast and sail in a yawl or ketch, or in a vessel with three or more masts. Oar a wooden pole enlarged on one end to resist the water when pulled. Painter: a short line at the bow of a small boat for tying it off. Parrot beak: a spring-loaded stainless steel fitting on the end of a spinnaker pole attaching it to the sail.
The design features a yawl sail plan, six berths, and over 6.0 ft (183 cm) of headroom ("standing headroom throughout"). [9] A centerboard allowed for a minimum draft of 3 ft 11 in (1.2 m) that extended to 8 ft 15 in (2.8 m) when lowered.
Concordia Yawls #85 Arapaho and #82 Coriolis. The Concordia yawl is a class of wooden yawl sailboats; it was designed in 1938 by the naval architect C. Raymond Hunt with input from Llewellyn and Waldo Howland, Clinton Crane, Fenwick Williams and Frank Paine. [1]
Plans for home construction have not been available since the death of the designer in 1997. [2] The Drascombe Lugger is a recreational open sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wooden spars and trim. It is a Gunter rigged yawl with and a boomkin for the mizzen sail.
The Tartan 27 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim.It has a masthead sloop 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.