Howard Ford Marine Sales
Tidemill Yacht Harbour
Woodbridge, Suffolk, GB, IP12 1BP
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1989 Mirage 2700

location icon Woodbridge, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Year 1989
Length 27 ft / 8.23 m
Price
£11,450

The Mirage 2700 is a well built sailing cruiser with good performance and excellent accommodation. With twin keels and a moderate draft, they are ideally suited to the shoal waters of the East Coast. This example has been well maintained, carefully used and would make an excellent family cruiser.

Specifications

Year Built 1989
Category Sail
Length Overall 27 ft / 8.23 m
Beam 9'5 ft / 2.87 m
Max Draft 3'6 ft / 1.07 m
Construction Fiberglass
Keel Twin Keel
Drive Type Direct
Engines 1
Total Engine Power 18 hp
Cruising Speed 5 kn
Maximum Speed 6 kn
Fuel Tank Cap. 10 L
Water Tank Cap. 25 L
Ballast 1296 kg
Displacement 2,700 kg

Engine 1 Specifications

Make: Volvo Penta
Model: MD2002
Fuel: Diesel
Engine Power: 18hp
Type: Inboard
Propeller Type: 3 BladeBronze
Drive Type: Direct
Year: 1989
Accommodation

The accommodation offers up to five berths in two cabins.

Forward cabin with double V berth and stowage above and below. Opening hatch to foredeck with blind. Heads compartment to starboard with Jabsco sea toilet and pull out washbasin. Hanging locker opposite to port. Port and starboard settee berths, with stowage under and outboard. Fixed table to starboard with drop leaves. Opening skylight above. Quarter berth aft with opening portlight. Galley opposite to port, enamel sink with cold water supply, Plastimo Neptune 2000 two burner gimballed gas cooker with oven and grill. Aft portlight. Good stowage. Steps up to self draining cockpit with seating and stowage under. Full interior lighting. Teak and Holly style cabin flooring, interior lighting and curtains. Plastimo gas heater. New headlining 2017. Companionway washboards 2018.

Mechanical Systems

Located abaft the companionway. Volvo Penta 2002 18hp twin cylinder diesel engine (serviced Jan 2024). Seawater cooled. Electric start. Shaft drive to fixed three bladed propeller. Single lever engine control.  Rope cutter. Cruising speed 5 knots. Maximum speed 6 knots. 

Alternator charging to 12 volt batteries 

240 volt shore power with sockets

12 volt switch panel

Battery monitor

Sails, Spars and Rigging

Masthead rigged sloop. Silver anodised aluminium mast and boom. Stainless steel standing rigging. Terylene running rigging. Slab reefing to mainsail. Furlex 200s headsail furling system.

Mainsail - Good 

Genoa - Good

Cruising chute - Good

Deck Equipment

SL Anchorman manual anchor windlass with 10kg Bruce anchor & 30 mtrs chain & 50mtrs rope

Stainless steel pulpit, pushpit, stanchions & lifelines

Sprayhood

Sail cover

Stackpack

Stainless steel boarding ladder

Stainless steel coachroof grabrails

Stainless steel cockpit grabrails

Outboard bracket on pushpit

Various fenders & warps

Barient 10 control line winches x 2

Lewmar 30 sheet winches x 2

Spinlock clutches

Navigation Equipment

Plastimo Contest steering compass

Navman VHF7100 DSC VHF radio with aerial 

Navman Tracker 5505 GPS/chart plotter

Advansea S400 depth sounder 

Advansea S400 log/speed 

Advansea S400 windspeed/direction 

AIS

Blipper radar reflector

Full navigation lights, with deck light

Windex and through mast cable 

Safety Equipment

Electric bilge pump 

Manual bilge pump

Fire extinguishers x 2 (expiry dates unknown)

Horseshoe Lifebuoy 

Gas detector

Foghorn

 

Construction

Built in 1989 by Boating Scene in Essex to a design by Walsh/Wakefield Ltd. White GRP hull and superstructure with Blue style stripes. Moulded in non-slip to decks and treadmaster non-slip to cockpit. Twin keels. Tiller steering to skeg hung rudder. Aft self draining cockpit with seating and stowage under.. Self draining gas and anchor lockers. Rubbing strakes replaced 2012. Heads seacocks replaced with DZR type 2012. Antifouled April 2023.

Comments

The Mirage 2700 is a well built sailing cruiser with good performance and excellent accommodation. With twin keels and a moderate draft, they are ideally suited to the shoal waters of the East Coast. This example has been well maintained, carefully used and would make an excellent family cruiser. Viewing by appointment through Howard Ford Marine Sales.

Disclaimer

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.