Review of Scand Nordic 27

Basic specs.

The Scand Nordic 27 also known as Scand 27 Nordic or Scand 27 Nordic is a motorboat designed by the Norwegian maritime architect Alf Jensen in the early eighties. The Scand Nordic 27 is built by the Norwegian yard Scand Boats A/S.

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Hull

Both the hull and the deck is made of fibreglass. Generally, a hull made of fibreglass requires only a minimum of maintenance during the sailing season. And outside the sailing season, just bottom cleaning and perhaps anti-fouling painting once a year - a few hours of work, that's all.

The deck is a sandwich construction which improves the indoor climate. Especially when the water is colder than the air in the cabin, then the double hull insulates against cold water and reduce the condense water in the cabin.

Interior

The interior is like most other boats made of teak. Teak has the advantage of being naturally very oily and therefore water-repellent, which is suitable on boats.
The boat is equipped with 4-6 berths, a galley, 200.0 liter fresh water capacity and toilet facility.

Keel

Unknown keel type

The boat can enter even shallow marinas as the draft is just about 0.85 - 0.95 meter (2.79 - 3.09 ft) dependent on the load. See immersion rate below.

Engine

The Scand Nordic 27 has been equipped with different engine alternatives.

Alternative 1:

Scand Nordic 27 may be equipped with an inboard Volvo Penta TMD 30 diesel engine at 110 hp (81 kW). Max speed is 16.0 knots.

Alternative 2:

The boat may be equipped with an inboard Volvo Penta TAMD 31P diesel engine at 130 hp (96 kW).

The fuel tank, which is made of stainless steel, has a capacity of 400.0 liters (105 US gallons, 87 imperial gallons).

Sailing characteristics

This section covers widely used rules of thumb to describe the sailing characteristics. Please note that even though the calculations are correct, the interpretation of the results might not be valid for extreme boats.

Immersion rate

The immersion rate is defined as the weight required to sink the boat a certain level. The immersion rate for Scand Nordic 27 is about 170 kg/cm, alternatively 952 lbs/inch.
Meaning: if you load 170 kg cargo on the boat then it will sink 1 cm. Alternatively, if you load 952 lbs cargo on the boat it will sink 1 inch.

Sailing statistics

This section is statistical comparison with similar boats of the same category. The basis of the following statistical computations is our unique database with more than 26,000 different boat types and 350,000 data points.

L/B (Length Beam Ratio)

What is L/B (Length Beam Ratio)?

The l/b ratio for Scand Nordic 27 is 2.71.

Compared with other similar motor boats it is more spacy than 88% of all other designs. It seems that the designer has chosen a significantly more spacy hull design.

Curiosities

Powerboat?

In Denmark, you are required to have achieved a 'powerboat driving license' in order to sail a powerboat.
In this context a boat is considered a powerboat if:

Danish definition of a powerboat

According to this definition this boat is categorized as a Powerboat.

Maintenance

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References

[Ref 1]: ISO 8666 Small craft — Principal data.
[Ref 3]: ISO 12215-5 Small craft — Hull construction and scantlings.