Masthead Sloop · Fin keel, spade rudder · First built 1978
A masthead sloop with a fin keel and spade rudder, designed by Robert A. Smith for balanced coastal cruising
Designed by Robert A. Smith, built by Yacht Constructors Inc.
See her sail
The fleet's own footage — the truest look at how she really moves.
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Is it for you?
Where this design lands on the numbers a shopper trusts — read straight from her own ratios.
Her heavy displacement on a moderate beam gives 23 — a moderate, middle-of-the-road motion.
1.91 — just under the 2.0 offshore line; her beam is modest for her weight.
287 — heavy for her waterline, built to carry stores and ride steadily.
16.2 — moderate power for her weight; steady, all-round performance.
36% of her weight is ballast — moderately stiff, a middle-of-the-road stability.
A capable cruiser that sits just inside the offshore line — coastal work with real passages in her.
What the fleet has seen
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The Cascade Yachts 27 is a Robert A. Smith-designed masthead sloop with a fin keel and spade rudder, built by Yacht Constructors Inc. from 1978 to the present. It has an 8.23 m LOA, a 2.69 m beam, a 1.37 m draft, and displaces 2903 kg. The boat has a sail area to displacement ratio of 16.2 and a comfort ratio of 23.5.
The living fleet
Where the fleet has filmed this boat.
Seen once across one channel of the fleet.
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Boats like this, on the water
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The family
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