Guinevere is a single-owner 1978 Cascade 27 sailboat that we sailed from Tacoma, Washington, to Annapolis, Maryland. We have sailed her in the Salish Sea between Olympia and Desolation Sound for the last forty-four years.
• Fresh water: 70 gal.
• Engine: 9.9 HP Suzuki outboard with engine well
• Navik wind-steering device
• Raymarine ST1000 Autohelm
• Head: porta potty
• Rig: sloop
• Sails: fully-battened main, 150 genoa with roller-furling, cruising spinnaker with whisker pole
• Rigged for ham radio: VHF/UHF/HF mast-head antenna and mainstay swaged for HF antenna.
• Solar Panels on a frame above the stern pulpit
• Bruce-style anchor with 200 ft of anchor chain
• Manual Anchor Winch
• Wood-burning stove for heat
• Alcohol stove for cooking
• Engel 12V Refrigerator
• Four 6V deep-cycle batteries wired as two 12V charged by solar panels or plug-in charger
• Shore power cord
• New Sails: 2005
• New Standing Rigging: 2007
• New Running Rigging: 2023
• New Ports and forward hatch: 2007
• Last survey 2007
• Last haul-out & bottom paint 2023
Guinevere has never had a through-hull below the waterline. The only through-hull, the galley sink drain, is above the waterline.
Cabin is owner-finished and very functional. Everything works.
The Cascade 27 is designed as an off-shore racer. The hull is all hand-laid fiberglass.