Know someone looking for a boat?
Sag Harbor Long Island NY.
Text following the link was sent to me when I inquired about it.
Here is a rundown on the boat:?
We've had her for 30 years but need to give her up now because of health issues.
The boat is exceptionally seaworthy. We've taken it from Sag Harbor to Block Island, Cuttyhunk, Point Judith, etc.?
I've had boats which didn't feel seaworthy but this Tartan 27 whether it's going through the turbulence of Plum Gut or when the wind picks up a lot, just holds steady.
And for water where there are plenty of shallow spots, its draft, although of only three feet, and hull design, leaves you feeling like you are in a boat with five or six foot draft.
Also, being the first cruising sailboat made by Tartan, the tolerances of fiberglass were not known so they overbuilt the hull and topside - with their fiberglass about three-quarters or so thick rather than the bleach-bottle-width, it would seem, of plenty of new boats today.
I installed an electric pump for the water system so the water system is powered, and had a prior marina install a hot water tank, to which not only the sink but a shower is attached.??
The main thing that needs to be done is interior painting.? My wife sanded it down in the spring to ready it for painting.? Serious interior painting is needed which would probably take three days.
The one thing absent from the boat is the small centerboard that deteriorated. But I didn't replace it (as I did an earlier centerboard that came with the boat that also deteriorated) because the boat sails perfectly without it. A new centerboard can be bought from the Tartan people for about $2,000. But the only times I ever dropped the centerboard was in high seas on cruising way out in the ocean to help with pointing.
There is one place where the deck-support under of one of the poles for a side railing felt weak and I reinforced the support with a piece of stainless steel, about 10 inches by five inches, cut by a machinist in Sag Harbor, including holes for bolts. I bolted down the steel on the deck under this stanchion, connecting it from the top to a piece of plywood of the same size below deck.?
Otherwise, the desk is fairly OK (but there are some soft spots) -- and was repainted with Imron paint sprayed on by a local boat-painter about four years ago. He also did the hull about six or seven years ago. (He prefers working with Imron rather than Awlgrip.)
The mainsail is in good shape and we have one or two additional mainsails of the same vintage that we've stored.?
The sail on the roller furling was designed specifically for the boat and made by North Sail and is in perfect shape. A North Sail rep came out and did the measurements. It is an absolute pleasure because my wife used to have to go up on the bow to change jibs when wind conditions changed substantially. The size of the jib can be easily changed from the cockpit by pulling a line.
This is a sacrifice proposition. It cost $5,400 to install the new Yanmar engine -- done by a Yanmar mechanic at the Sag Harbor Yacht Yard which does Yanmar work -- and then there was the cost of the engine itself, more than $6,000. As noted, the engine works perfectly.
But after just one sail of about three hours using the new engine, my wife and I -- with both of us reaching 80 years old in a few months and, as noted, with medical issues, she having problems with a knee -- decided it was time to sell.?
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