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Make sure you get the correct stuff, there is quite a few and it can be a bit confusing.BTW I had a '80 Watkins 27 before I got my current '99 C36. It was a lot of boat for a 27 footer and for what it was I will always have fond memories. It's kind of like a poor mans Island Packet 27. Solid and decent build (bit oversized standing rigging, etc) for the money (though no-frills on things like no teak floorboards -- but thats what carpet is for..;-). It will be a safe, solid boat especially to start on, though it will never win a lot of races. It just won't point as well as a lot of boats, and will start to make a bit of leeway - (now with my C36 - sailing is a lot more "wow") But what do you expect with a shoal keel and big beam which at the time was more important to me. Though on a beam reach she would do real well, especially if the sails are trimmed well. I can recall sailing over to sheephead bay and passing much larger sailboats with badly trimed sails.Hope you have the 15 hp (mine was a raw water cooled Yamnar 2QM15), Mine had one and did a yeomans duty, it would motor through just about *any* seas with its three blade. The "admiral" still fondly refers to her as ole "betsy".BTW the pilothouse is pretty rare - and I would think especially so in Fl.Do you know about the website for watkins below.Good luck good sailing