CHALLENGER 15 (FORD)
Fractional Sloop • Centerboard Dinghy • Built 1960–1982
Dimensions
- LOA
- 15 ft
- LWL
- 14 ft
- Beam
- 5.5 ft
- Max Draft
- 3.67 ft
- Min Draft
- 0.58 ft
- Displacement
- 385 lbs
- Ballast
- — lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 3.02 (use caution offshore)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 43.5
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 63
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- —
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 144 sq ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Centerboard Dinghy
- Rig Type
- Fractional Sloop
- Hull Material
- FG
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1960
- Last Built
- 1982
- Number Built
- —
Notes:
First built by Sail-Mor Boat Co. of Royal Oak MI. (USA).
The rights were sold to Leon F. Irish Co. of Walled Lake, MI (USA) some time in the early 1960's.
Spin area: 130 sq ft
Thanks to George Eheman, who commissioned the design and was the original builder of the CHALLENGER 15.