2011 Santa Cruz 27 Nationals

[Ballard Sailor]

Santa Cruz 27 Nationals 2011

The Pacific Northwest Santa Cruz 27 fleet is hosting the 2011 Nationals as part of Whidbey Island Race Week July 17th -22nd. This event is one of the few remaining of the original "Yachting" race weeks and is truly still a week long. (BTW DWI Dinghy's Whidbey Island is the preceding weekend). I know it takes a bit of planning to get your favorite 6 sailors to a windswept rock in the PNW for a week so we're trying to get the word out early. If there is a SC 27 hanging out in your neighborhood connected to a VW bus growing trees out of the gunnels, or even one of those fancy race ready ones, that is not in touch with the fleet that you know would enjoy an event like this please let them know. There will be an SC 27 camping compound, fleet dinner, games, camaraderie, and we're trying to make arrangements for the Wizard himself(Bill Lee) to make a special appearance! Please EMAIL Andy to get on the master list for updates.

Is that Matt Dini?

Many of you have noticed the growth of the Pacific Northwest SC27 fleet in recent years, specifically up in Anacortes, Washington and now their hosting a week long Nationals regatta in conjunction with WIRW. This is a great excuse to get that boat together, find some crew and head to Oak Harbor next summer. Take two weeks off and cruise the San Juan's as well! Come on out and try and knock Rob Schuyler off the Champions list, he's won Nationals 4 years straight!

Images from the SC27 National website

Find out more about WIRW HERE!

Contact Andy with any questions or ideas!

[war dog]

Here are some shots from the year the SC 27 Nationals were on the Gorge..............one of the best regattas ever would love to do it again!!


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Edit...........I need a bit O help posting pictures!!


Oops I forgot (and you can’t read it in the thumbnails) photo credit to Sean Trew.

[Ballard Sailor]

Nice shots! As far as I know you have to have the shots online somewhere to post in a thread (not be a thumbnail) Pressure Drop has an image host if you need one....

[Ballard Sailor]

wildangels

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Posted Yesterday, 08:58 PM
all the linkys you need to get hooked up for SC27 Nationals in the NW!

Well, it'll certainly get you headed down the right path...

http://www.pressure-...-Nationals-2011

big thanks to the friendly and tech-savvy sailors at Pressure Drop!

[aA]

sure looks like matt to me

[CrazyCruzer]

Here's a lost boat in Ontario. Hull 120. Love to come out there for some fleet racing, quite the trip though. Any idea of how many boats you may get?

As an aside, anyone know any history on this hull. I've had it for 6 years and it is completely redone, deck recored hull stripped, it is very stiff. Maybe up for sale if anyone is interested, it would be worth the trip.

http://www.pressure-drop.us/forums/a...tachmentid=564

[war dog]

the Yellow hulls are fast!!!

[Angry Dolphin]

Why are all the SC 27's living in Seattle?

[Ballard Sailor]

There's only 2 in Seattle, one on Bainbridge Island, one on Vashon Island, most are up in Anacortes/Bellingham area. Good summer San Juan boats that also race well year round, that and the trailer thing, I believe, is their selling points....

[Angry Dolphin]

From the SC 27 website:

The first Santa Cruz 27 customer came to us in late 1973 with the following request:

"Quarter tonner racing is really catching on here in Santa Barbara. I want a quarter tonner that is like WITCHCRAFT and CHUTZPAH only smaller."
We worked up a preliminary design that was 25 feet long with 9 feet of beam and had all of the bumps in the IOR places. After much discussion, the customer further refined his goals.
"In this quarter ton racing, they seem to race until they find out who has the fastest boat and then the fleet falls apart. What I really want is to be first to the bar. But my budget is limited to that of the proposed quarter tonner."
We put on our thinking caps and reworked the concept. The new boat would have the same rig, same keel, same rudder, etc, but would be 27 feet long with 8 feet of beam so as to have about the same surface area and bill of materials.

Once we looked at the new boat, I decided I wanted one for myself and so did several employees. We even envisioned that we could sell a bunch of them. So the decision was made to build production tooling.

The first Santa Cruz 27 VANISHING POINT was a roaring success. Approximately 145 were built. They race one design in Santa Cruz and a Nationals is held every year.

One of the key events for which the Santa Cruz 27's were developed for was the Santa Cruz to Santa Barbara race. This is a 225 mile downwind ride that passes two of the roughest spots on the coast, Point Sur and Point Conception. Hence the boats were designed to be very strong and seaworthy with a small selfbailing cockpit, small hatch and suitable interior. I had some very wild and exciting rides on this course in a Santa Cruz 27.

How fast can you go in the middle of the night in 35 knots of wind and 15 foot breaking seas? Wear your safety harness and be sure to take your spinnaker down before mother nature does it for you.

Several Santa Cruz 27's have been sailed singlehanded to Hawaii. The boats have a masthead rig with long J and short boom. The masthead rig is very desirable for downwind sailing as it permits a very large spinnaker. There are no runners to contend with, or worse yet to fail to get up in time resulting in a rig loss.

About 6 years ago, one Santa Cruz 27 was fitted with a J boat style sprit. The owner was very happy. The results were very predictable. Super fast on reaches and a little less VMG down in moderate air.

The factory owned several 27's over the years for demo use and for the employees to sail on. These were

Jake and Arnold (Red)
Bumbleberry (Purple)
Redline * (White with red)
Oh No Mr. Bill (White with green)
* This boat was purchased by a gentleman who though he didn't disclose it, was a sales manager for Hobie. They dissected it in great detail before coming out with the Hobie 33. The Santa Cruz 27 is a much better boat and they should have come to the WIZARD in the first place for a design.
As history marched on, the molds and right to produce Santa Cruz 27's were sold after boat #141 and again after #145.


Santa Cruz 27 Specifications
Length 27 feet
Waterline 24
Beam 8
Draft 4.5
Headroom 4.1
Displacement 3300 lbs **
Dspl/length 90
I 32.7
J 10.9
P 28.2
E 8.7

Here is a key to ballast and boat numbers:
# 1 900 lb keel
# 2-23 1400 lb keel
# 24 + 1600 lb keel **

The change from 1400 to 1600 was accomplished by making the sump 2"
shallower and the top of the ballast 2" higher. They go upwind pretty
good too. The keel is fixed with a deep sump for bilgewater
accumulation. Many boats are dry sailed on trailers.

Interior
Vee berth forward
Pipe berths aft
Seats and counters amidships

[Charlie Tuna]

Whatever happened to the SC to SB race?

[Ballard Sailor]

Just found this Santa Cruz SC27 Video

good stuff.

[Ballard Sailor]