The Watkins 27P, also known as the W27P, is an American sailboat that was designed by naval architect Walter Scott and first built in 1981.
[7] The Watkins 27P is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of polyester resin-based fiberglass, with teak wood trim.
Plywood coring is used in the structures of the cabin roof, the deck, seats and cockpit sole for additional stiffness.
It has a masthead sloop rig with 6061-T6 aluminum spars, a raked stem, a vertical transom, a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a wheel and a shoal-draft keel.
The galley is aft, on the starboard side and includes an icebox and a two-burner alcohol or gas-fired stove mounted on gimbals.