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| Development | |
|---|---|
| Designer | Sparkman & Stephens |
| Location | United States |
| Year | 1940 |
| Builder(s) | Cape Cod Shipbuilding |
| Role | Sailing dinghy |
| Name | Cape Cod Mercury 15 FK |
| Boat | |
| Displacement | 730 lb (331 kg) |
| Draft | 2.42 ft (0.74 m) |
| Hull | |
| Type | Monohull |
| Construction | Wood or Fiberglass |
| LOA | 15.00 ft (4.57 m) |
| LWL | 13.83 ft (4.22 m) |
| Beam | 5.42 ft (1.65 m) |
| Hull appendages | |
| Keel/board type | fin keel |
| Ballast | 200 lb (91 kg) |
| Rudder(s) | transom-mounted rudder |
| Rig | |
| Rig type | Bermuda rig |
| Sails | |
| Sailplan | Fractional rigged sloop |
| Total sail area | 119 sq ft (11.1 m2) |
The Cape Cod Mercury 15, also called the Mercury Sloop and just the Mercury, is an American trailerable sailboat and sailing dinghy, that was designed by Sparkman & Stephens and first built in 1940.[1][2][3][4][5]
The design is sometimes confused with the unrelated Ernest Nunes 1939 Mercury 18 design.[1][6]
- ^ a b McArthur, Bruce (2020). "Cape Cod Mercury 15 FK sailboat specifications and details". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 16 October 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
- ^ McArthur, Bruce (2020). "Cape Cod Mercury 15 CB sailboat specifications and details". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 15 October 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ McArthur, Bruce (2020). "Sparkman & Stephens". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 10 August 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
- ^ Sherwood, Richard M.: A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition, page 94. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. ISBN 0-395-65239-1
- ^ Cape Cod Shipbuilding (2020). "Mercury Sloop". capecodshipbuilding.com. Archived from the original on 15 October 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
- ^ McArthur, Bruce (2020). "Mercury 18 sailboat". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 14 October 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2020.