Cape Cod Mercury 15

Cape Cod Mercury 15 FK
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)
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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]

Production

The design is built by Cape Cod Shipbuilding in the United States, and remained in production in 2020 after 80 years.^[1]^[4]^[5]^[7]

Design

The Mercury 15 is a recreational keelboat or dinghy, depending on the model, originally built of wood, since 1948 it has been constructed of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig with aluminum spars. The hull has a spooned plumb stem, a plumb transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel or a retractable centerboard.^[1]^[4]

The design has accommodation for five people, but is normally sailing with a crew of two sailors.^[5]

An optional teak motor mount is available to allow use of an outboard motor for docking and maneuvering.^[1]

For sailing the design may be equipped with an optional genoa and spinnaker. Roller furling, a boom vang and boat trailers for both versions are also optional.^[5]

Variants

Cape Cod Mercury 15 FK: This fixed keel model has a draft of 2.42 ft (0.74 m) with the standard keel. It has a displacement of 730 lb (330 kg) and carries 200 lb (91 kg) of iron ballast.^[1]^[5]
Cape Cod Mercury 15 CB: This centerboard model has a draft of 3.25 ft (0.99 m) with the centerboard down and 6 in (15 cm) with the centerboard retracted. The boat displaces 470 lb (213 kg).^[2]^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 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.
^ ^a ^b 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c Sherwood, Richard M.: A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition, page 94. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. ISBN 0-395-65239-1
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 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.
^ McArthur, Bruce (2020). "Cape Cod Shipbuilding". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 24 August 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2020.

External links

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Official website

Sparkman & Stephens naval architecture and yacht brokerage firm

Key people

S&S designs

Nautor's Swan sailboats	36 37 38 40 41 411 43 431 44 47 47-2 48 50 MS 55 57 65 76
Nautor motorsailers	39 43 50
Hughes sailboats	26 31 35 38-1 38-2 38-3 40 48
North Star sailboats	38 48 80/20 500 600 1000 1500
Tartan sailboats	27 27 Yawl 27-2 34-2 34 C Ten
Seafarer sailboats	23 Kestrel 45 46 48
Other craft	Aura A35 Cape Cod Mercury 15 Catalina 38 D&M 22 Designers Choice Dolphin 24 DUKW Ford GPA Hinckley 38 Howmar 12 Interclub Dinghy Lightning (dinghy) New Horizons 26 Pilot 35 PJ 30 1/2 Ton S&S 34 Sauda-class mine countermeasures vessel SHE 36 Shields Swift 40 Weekender 24 Yankee 38
Notable vessels	Brilliant Capricia Corsaro II Dorade Flyer Manitou Morning Cloud Sayula II Stella Polare Stormy Weather
America's Cup sailboats	Ranger (1937) Intrepid (1967/70) Courageous (1974/77) Freedom (1980)

Associated builders

v t e Cape Cod Shipbuilding
Cape Cod sailboats	30 Cat Gemini Knockabout
Herreshoff sailboats	12½ Bull's Eye Goldeneye H-26
Other sailboats	Atlantic Beverly Dinghy Blue Chip 30 Day Sailer International 110 Marlin 23 Mercer 44 Mercury 15 Raven Rhodes 18 Shields
Designers	Uffa Fox Nathanael Greene Herreshoff Philip Rhodes

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