The Tartan 27 Yawl is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Sparkman & Stephens as a cruiser and first built in 1961.

"[9] Production was initially by Douglass & McLeod at their Grand River, Ohio factory, starting in 1961 and ending in 1971 when the plant burned down.

It has a masthead yawl rig, a raked stem, an angled transom, a keel-mounted rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed modified long keel with a cutaway forefoot and a retractable centerboard.

[1][2] The boat is fitted with a 30 hp (22 kW) Universal Atomic 4 gasoline engine for docking and maneuvering and has a hull speed of 6.2 kn (11.5 km/h).

[2] Robert Manry, along with his wife Virginia, his son and daughter, a German shepherd dog and a cat, sailed his 1967 Tartan 27 Yawl, named Curlew from Cleveland, Ohio, across the Great Lakes, down the Mississippi River, through the Gulf of Mexico to the Bahamas, north along the US east coast and then back to his point of departure, Cleveland.