This F-27 was sold in mid-August, 2020. Her new home is somewhere in San Francisco Bay. I’ll leave this website up for those who are interested in F-boats.
She is a fresh-water boat and has never had her bottom painted.
A Short History
She was previously known as “Flying Bye” and the original owners were Tom and Debra Emery of Sacramento, California. Tom bought her to race on San Francisco Bay and he installed the standard go-fast gear that many F-27s carry: bowsprit, asymm spin, screecher, double-spreader rig, barberhaulers, and aft cabin beam post. She was kept on the hard in Oakland or in their RV garage at home.
As the years went by, Flying Bye became more of a cruiser and that brought the addition of a 120w solar panel, hotel-sized minifridge, dodger, bimini, and Autohelm with remote control.
That’s the boat Charlie and Geni purchased and renamed Varakai. They’ve sailed her and keep her protected from the Oregon winter rains. Charlie raced Varakai occasionally on Fern Ridge Lake, but mostly we cruised her on Fern Ridge, Clear Lake California, the San Juan Islands of Washington, and the Gulf Islands off Vancouver Island.
The back double bunk is comfortable for two medium people, tight for anyone large or for those that move around a lot in their sleep.
From Corsair Literature
The F-27 is a unique combination of easily handled cruiser for your family, exciting performance for the racer, and take it anywhere trailerability. It is light for easy handling yet large enough for serious offshore racing.
You’ll love the wide spacious decks and near level sailing- perfect for safe family cruising, while the shallow draft means any beach is just an excuse to pull in and play. Comfortable cruising style accommodation, responsive handling, and effortless speed, make the F-27 always a pleasure to be on.
The efficient fracti0onal rig has all control lines lead aft for convenient operation from the cockpit. A roller furling boom, plus jiffy reefing, is standard equipment for easily sail handling.
The deep retractable daggerboard gives excellent windward capability, equal or superior to many 40-foot monohulls. Downwind or reaching, you can mix it with 65 footers!
An Australian pedigree with over 500,000 safe sailing miles guarantees sea worthiness. Totally unsinkable, innovative design and the most advanced construction technology have produced a boat that can safely cruise anywhere.
With no need for a heavy keel, the F-27 is light and has excellent trailering characteristics. The low towing weight will allow you to discover and explore many out of reach cruising grounds. Trailering also offers a significant saving in dock fees and maintenance.
Rigging and launching can all be done single handed in less than 30 minutes. Everything is designed to get you on the water faster. It is so easy! When launching, the shallow 14” draft avoids having to completely sink the trailer.
Once afloat, stability is excellent, and single handed unfolding takes just a minute, even under motor.
The F-27 is a moving statement for technological innovation. PVC foam core construction, double bias glass fabric, Kevlar, S-glass, carbon fiber and multistrata vacupressure technique means the F-27 competes with the fastest boats around for more than just the wind.
SAILS and SAIL CONTROL
- Smythe square-top main in good to very good condition. Still holds great shape. Bolt-rope has been repaired in several places.
- Pinhead main: little used, very good condition.
- Calvert jib: very good condition, but long in the luff and could use a recut.
- Calvert racing jib: very good condition.
- Asymmetric spinnaker: very good condition
- Symmetric spinnaker: excellent condition
- Screecher: excellent condition w/ Harken furler
- Harken jib furler
- Bow sprit with lower bow eye
- Cunningham, barber-haulers, boomvang, all halyards and sheets
- Aft cabin brace–stiffens back hull section for heavy ways or stiffer response while racing
CRUISING GEAR
- Compass
- Tramps are in very good condition
- Dodger: hardly used, excellent condition
- Bimini: some wear on the cover, very good condition
- Cockpit cushions showing age
- Cabin cushions; new 2019
- Back bed cushion, very good condition
- V-berth cushion, excellent
- Mainsail cover, good condition
- Jib cover; material is fine but zipper is broken
- Mini-fridge has stopped working. I’m told it simply needs recharging, but I can’t verify that. Unplug after sun goes down, keeps ice over night
- 120amp solar panel. Runs fridge, stereo, nav, wind/depth all day long.
- Excellent CD/Tuner stereo with Bluetooth, USB, amplifier; speakers inside and out
- Has slide-in table for saloon meals
- Has Inserts to make galley and settees into double bed
- Barbecue for the stern rail
- Swim ladder
ELECTRONICS
- Raymarine Autohelm 2000 with Remote; works great
- Raymarine ST50 Wind instrument shows wind direction but not windspeed
- Raymarine ST50 Depth/Speed.
- Handheld VHF Radio
- Icom VHF Radio
- New Sony CD/Tuner with USB/Bluetooth
- 4-speaker audio system with amplifier for outdoor marine speakers
- Navigation lights
- Masthead light
- Deck light
Engine & Miscellaneous
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- 2001 Honda 8 4-stroke; tuned April 2019. Very low miles on it; we sailed off and onto our end slip for many years. Average summer use was less than 10 hours on the engine, from 2006.
- Fiberglass motor cover. Strong enough to stand on while you reef the leech of the main.
- Pacific Trailer with disc brakes. Refurbished/tuned April 2019.
- Stainless steel Lifting Harness. Use a crane to lift this boat off the trailer and place it in the water for sailing or on boat lifts for working on the hulls.
- New wood tiller
- 3 anchors, anchor chain, anchor rode
- Anchor roller on bow
- Stays have PVC tubes over turnbuckles to protect sails and lines
- Fenders
- New Portapotti, 2019
- Full Deck Cover
- Beam covers for when folded, catches bugs while trailering so the beams are clean when you arrive to go sailing.
- Spare propeller
- Spare stainless steel stay
- Original baby stay
- Lifesling Overboard Rescue System (never been used)
- 3 winch handles
- Boat and Gear Manuals
- Many original receipts
- Tool kit