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The following information and photographs are displayed as a service to anyone researching yacht types. Details and photographs are normally based on one specific yacht, but could be a compilation. No reliance should be placed on other yachts of the same class being identical.  Where common variations exist, we have endeavoured to indicate this in these archive details.  The price guide covers the normal ranges of age and condition. Exceptional boats, whether good or bad, may fall outside these guidelines.

Halcyon 27

Price Guide

£9,000 to £12,000

Builder Offshore Yachts
LOA 27' 0" Sail area 365 sq ft main & genoa

Brief details

LWL 20' 3" Rig sloop

A classic small offshore cruiser - a tough, seaworthy little boat with useful accommodation, and thanks to the deep hull form quite good headroom than in many comparable sized boats.

Beam 7' 8" Cabins 2
Draught 4' 0" Berths 4
Displacement 6,720 lbs Engine usually originally a Sabb single-cylinder inboard diesel
Ballast 3,000 lbs BHP 10
Keel type Long keel (encapsulated lead ballast) with transom hung rudder

The Halcyon 27 was designed in 1968 by Alan Buchanan, as a development of the earlier 'Diamond II' design, and about 200 were built by Offshore Yachts. With a full keel and transom-hung rudder, they are a solid cruising boat with good sailing performance in all conditions

The accommodation consists of vee-berth forecabin, heads with hanging locker opposite, and in the saloon two settee berths, galley and chart table. Headroom is about six feet in the doghouse

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Below: The galley and chart table are by the companionway, this being the standard layout for the class (though a few were fitted out differently to give six berths)

 

Photographs Yachtsnet

Right and below: The interior of one of the batch of boats produced for the Joint Services Sailing Centre, which had six berths, with two quarterberths aft and galley forward. Apart from the nine built for the Services, others may share this layout.

Many of these boats will still have the original Sabb engine, this low-revving heavy flywheel design being very long-lived.

 

They were mostly originally fitted with a variable pitch 'reversing prop' which meant the prop kept turning even in neutral. It is not uncommon for this to have been changed to a normal gearbox and fixed prop

Above: photos of two different boats - one has been fitted with doors in place of the standard hatchboards

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