Gloucester 27

The Gloucester 27 is an American sailboat that was designed by Stuart Windley and Harry R. Sindle as a cruiser and first built in 1983.

The Gloucester 27 is a development of the 1979 Lockley-Newport LN-27.

Production
The design was built by Gloucester Yachts in the United States, starting in 1983, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Gloucester 27 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig, a raked stem, a reverse transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel. It displaces 5500 lb and carries 2500 lb of ballast.

The boat has a draft of 3.50 ft with the standard keel.

The design has a hull speed of 6.21 kn.