Vancouver 27
Cutter · Long Keel w/trans. Hung Rudder · First built 1973
A Robert B. Harris-designed cutter with a long keel, built across two continents to provide a stiff, comfortable passage
Designed by Robert B. Harris, built by Pheon Yachts Ltd.
- LOA
- Beam
- Draft (max)
- Displacement
- Ballast
- Hull type
- Long Keel w/trans. Hung Rudder
See her sail
The Vancouver 27, on the water
The fleet's own footage — the truest look at how she really moves.
Footage from Sailing Songbird
Is it for you?
Character
Where this design lands on the numbers a shopper trusts — read straight from her own ratios.
Her heavy displacement on a moderate beam gives 32 — a sea-kindly motion in a seaway.
At 1.67 she sits well under the 2.0 line — a solidly ocean-capable hull for her size.
332 — heavy for her waterline, built to carry stores and ride steadily.
14.2 — modest power for her weight; easygoing rather than lively, and happier with a breeze.
39% of her weight is ballast — moderately stiff, a middle-of-the-road stability.
Built heavy and sea-kindly — a boat made to cross oceans and forgive a rough night.
The living fleet
Sailed by the fleet
The channels sailing this model, and where they were last seen.
Seen 8 times across one channel of the fleet.
On the water
The Vancouver 27 on video
What broke, what changed
Gear aboard, as the crews told it
Moments from individual boats of this model that the fleet has filmed — one crew, one piece of kit, one day on the water. Not a review of the class, and not a count of anything.
InstalledStarlink
The speaker plans to activate Starlink to get internet access as they approach their destination.
aboard Sailing Songbirdseen October 202510:50
WorkingGoPro
The speaker plans to use his GoPro for diving after charging it.
aboard Sailing Songbirdseen March 20262:56
Each line is one crew's account of their own boat. Another Vancouver 27 may be fitted out entirely differently.
The record
Full specifications
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More boats like her, on the water
Comparable boats the fleet has on camera: same type, within a quarter of her length. Open the boat, or watch the video — a timestamp means she only appears in passing.
The family
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Nearby designs by size, type, and era — worth a look alongside her.
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