Nor'Sea 27 | |
Designer: | Lyle Hess |
Location: | United States |
Year: | 1976 |
No Built: | 450 |
Builder: | Nor'Sea Marine |
Role: | Cruiser |
Draft: | 3.5feet |
Displacement: | 81000NaN0 |
Hull Type: | monohull |
Construction: | fiberglass |
Loa: | 27feet |
Lwl: | 23feet |
Beam: | 8feet |
Engine: | Faryman 90NaN0 diesel engine |
Keel Type: | modified long keel |
Ballast: | 31000NaN0 |
Rudder Type: | keel/transom-mounted rudder |
Rig Type: | Bermuda rig |
I: | 29.5feet |
J: | 12.5feet |
P: | 30.8feet |
E: | 11.8feet |
Sailplan: | masthead sloop |
Sailarea Main: | 181.72square feet |
Sailarea Headsail: | 184.38square feet |
Sailarea Total: | 366.1square feet |
The Nor'Sea 27, or Norsea 27, is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Lyle Hess as cruiser and first built in 1976.[1] [2] [3]
The design was built by Heritage Marine, later renamed Nor'Sea Marine, in Dana Point, California, United States. Production was started in 1976, with 450 boats built, but it is now out of production.[1] [4]
The boats were sold complete and ready to sail and also as kits for amateur completion.[5]
Hess designed the boat in response to a specification by Dean Wixom, president of Heritage Marine, who was looking for a trailerable boat that could handle almost any ocean weather. Hess based the configuration on the traditional lines of the Norwegian Spitzgatter.[5]
The Nor'Sea 27 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim and a plywood-cored deck. It has a masthead sloop rig with a bowsprit, a spooned raked stem, a rounded transom, a keel and transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed long keel with a cutaway forefoot. It displaces 81000NaN0. Until 1980 a choice of 2500or of ballast was available. After 1980 ballast was standardized at 31000NaN0.[1] [3] [5]
The hull design is 27feet long or 31feet with the bowsprit.[5]
A tall mast of 34.5feet with 376square feet of sail, as well as a short mast of 30.5feet and 335square feet of sail, were available.[1]
The boat has a draft of 3.5feet with the standard long keel.[1]
The boat is fitted with a Faryman diesel engine of 90NaN0 or a Yanmar 2GM diesel of 200NaN0 for docking and maneuvering. The fuel tank holds and the fresh water tank has a capacity of .[1] [5]
The design has two cabin configurations, both with sleeping accommodation for four people. The center cockpit-aft cabin version has a double berth aft and a drop down dinette table that converts to a double berth in the bow. The aft cockpit configuration has a bow cabin and two berths aft, under the cockpit. Both have a galley located on the starboard side just forward of the companionway ladder, equipped with a two-burner stove and a sink. The head is located opposite the galley on the port side. The cabin has 71inches of headroom.[1]
A review in Blue Water Boats noted, "the Nor'Sea 27 is a small but rugged pocket-cruiser with live-aboard comfort and seaworthiness at the heart of her design. Designer Lyle Hess was approached with the challenging brief to design a heavy weather, long distance cruiser which could be legally trailerable. Unfazed, Hess came up with this tough and traditionally styled 27-foot double-ender which is transportable between oceans if not strictly trailerable."[5]
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