From her distinctive profile to her refined finishes, The Cashmere 27 captures the essence of a bygone era. Whether catering for a private getaway for two or entertaining guests, she is the perfect cruiser for touring the harbour, exploring desolate bays or simply powering through the ocean swells to the outer reefs.
With her long, lean smuggler's look, but with an updated twist. "the Cashmere 27" is a mixture of performance and elegance. She's a new boat with a design from out of the past... designed by Mark Bowdidge, convinced that there will be a place for long, narrow boats in the future.

SPECIFICATIONS:

- Overall Hull length ......27 ft 5 in ( 8.34m)
- Beam ...... 9ft- 5in (2.872m)
- Recommended Hp ...... 425 - 600 Hp stern drive
- Strip Plank Composite Construction

The "Cashmere 27" is inspired by the slippery old hulls that were developed during the age of the rumrunner, before the days of high-horsepower, lightweight engines." The current trend in production boat building has been toward beamy boats. It has been that way for over thirty years, and there seems to be no indication of change. The reason why major builders are producing beamy boats is simply that the market demands it. Customers want large interior accommodations. But beamy boats require more power to push through the water. That translates into bigger, more costly engines for planing hulls, and higher fuel consumption at planning speeds. The fact that the "Cashmere 27" looks a bit like a torpedo boat is no accident. The experiences with the light strong hit-and-run PT boats of World War II taught designers much about getting speed out of available horsepower.

So, for starters, the "Cashmere 27" is light. Unlike beamy production boats, with all their extra structural material and the heavy machinery needed to push them around, they tend to fall easily into a "closed loop" system of power requirements - the more weight, the more power needed, thereby adding more machinery weight... and so on...

The "Cashmere 27" does not plane in the classic sense with a high bow up attitude. The "Cashmere 35" slices thru the waves and trims at a modest 2-3 degree running angle - a figure considerably lower than most other boats of her length and is designed for speeds between 24 - 35 kts with what we call the "penetrating" hull form.

Commissioned by a client in South Queensland (Australia) and originally designed to have a diesel stern drive motor, construction began in earnest due to the upcoming cyclone season approaching and also Nathan had his house on the market for sale.

Shortly after having the hull finished and his house now sold, whilst moving into his new home, his Cashmere 27 was put into a large shed for storage until his new shed was built.

However with the cyclone (hurricane) season now in full swing, a cat 2 cyclone crossed the coast where he lived and a large tree adjacent to the shed was up-rooted and fell onto the shed, destroying the shed and his Cashmere 27 within.

His Cashmere 27 was un-recoverable.

Below are a few photo's of his Cashmere 27 that he was building, prior to it being destroyed by the cyclone.