DEFENDER 27
Masthead Sloop • Fin with rudder on skeg • Built 1971
Dimensions
- LOA
- 26.25 ft
- LWL
- 19 ft
- Beam
- 8.2 ft
- Max Draft
- 4.13 ft
- Displacement
- 4,409 lbs
- Ballast
- 1,874 lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 2.00 (use caution offshore)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 14.5
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 287
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- 42.5%
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 243 sq ft
- I
- 27.89 ft
- J
- 10.01 ft
- P
- 24.61 ft
- E
- 8.37 ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Fin with rudder on skeg
- Rig Type
- Masthead Sloop
- Hull Material
- FG
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1971
- Last Built
- —
- Number Built
- —
Engine & Accommodations
- Water
- 26 gal
Notes:
Inboard Buhk Desiel was optional.
Based on the earlier DEFENDER 15 (IOR 1/4 ton), with more freeboard and entirely new deck.
Later a stretched version became the DEFENDER 32. The 27 was, by far, the yards most popular model.
Designers
- Jacques Gaubert
- Andre Mauric (1909–2003)