Leisure 27 SL/Mirage
The Leisure 27SL is actually a Mirage 270, built by Thames Marine and marketed by Boating Scene of Basildon, Essex under the Leisure name, in 1989.
The Leisure Owners Association has no record of the number built and a number of customers bought their boats to fit out for DIY finishing.
The majority were twin keel. The Leisure 27SL is rigged as a masthead sloop, with an aluminium mast and boom. Standing rigging is conventional stainless steel wire, whilst the running rigging is Terylene rope.
The yachts are often fitted with head-sail reefing systems. Sheet and halyard winches are fitted, with the latter on the coach roof.
The main-sheet traveller is mounted on the bridge deck and so runs across the companionway entrance.
Interestingly, the Mirage 270/Leisure 27SL mainsail is 155 sq ft, but the mainsail on the original Cobramold Leisure 27 is just 128 sq ft.
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The supplied plough anchor is normally stowed on the fore-deck. A boarding ladder is fitted to the transom and most boats are fitted with the optional stainless steel handrail on the coach roof to permit safe working around the mast.
