mutineer 15 sailboat

Mutineer 15

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One-Design Class Type: Dinghy

Was this boat built to be sailed by youth or adults? Both

Approximately how many class members do you have? 100

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About Mutineer 15

The Mutineer 15 is a great combination of comfortable family daysailer and 2-person race boat. With comfort and convenience features like molded-in bench seating, furling jib, kick-up rudder and retracting centerboard, it makes a great family boat. With performance features like 150 square feet of upwind sail, 166 square foot spinnaker, spinnaker launching snout, this 15 footer performs well in all wind ranges. Weighing only 410 pounds it is easy to trailer or dolly launch, and sets up quickly.

With over 5000 Mutineers built, used ones are available inexpensively, and new boats can be purchased through WindRider. https://www.windrider.com/collections/windrider-sailboat/products/mutineer-16

Boats Produced: 8000

Class boat builder(s):

Nickels/Windrider https://www.windrider.com/collections/windrider-sailboat/products/mutineer-16

Approximately how many boats are in the USA/North America? 8000

Where is your One-Design class typically sailed in the USA? List regions of the country:

Northern Colorado Tampa, Florida Dallas, Texas Midwest (Michigan/Wisconsin/Illinois) Mid-Atlantic

Does this class have a spinnaker or gennaker? Yes

How many people sail as a crew including the helm? 2-3 for racing, comfortable daysailing with 4 adults

Ideal combined weight of range of crew: 275-350 lbs

Portsmouth Yardstick Rating: 96.0

Boat Designed in 1971

Length (feet/inches): 15 feet

Beam: 6 feet

Weight of rigged boat without sails: 410 lbs

Draft: 8 inches with centerboard up, 4′ 1″ with centerboard down

Mast Height: 21′ 8″

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Sailboat Guide

Mutineer 15

Mutineer 15 is a 14 ′ 11 ″ / 4.6 m monohull sailboat designed by J.R. (Rod) Macalpine-Downie and Dick Gibbs and built by Nickels Boat Works, Inc., Texas Marine International, and Chrysler Marine starting in 1972.

Rig and Sails

Auxilary power, accomodations, calculations.

The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.

Classic hull speed formula:

Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWL

Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio .311 Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL

Sail Area / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.

SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64) 2/3

SA : Sail area in square feet, derived by adding the mainsail area to 100% of the foretriangle area (the lateral area above the deck between the mast and the forestay).
D : Displacement in pounds.

Ballast / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.

Ballast / Displacement * 100

Displacement / Length Ratio

A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat’s D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.

D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³

D: Displacement of the boat in pounds.
LWL: Waterline length in feet

Comfort Ratio

This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat’s hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat’s motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.

Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam 1.33 )

D: Displacement of the boat in pounds
LOA: Length overall in feet
Beam: Width of boat at the widest point in feet

Capsize Screening Formula

This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.

CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)

Sail area(sq.ft.): Total-150, Main-100, Jib-50, Spinnaker-166 PRODUCTION HISTORY: 1971 - 1980 Chrysler Corp. built almost 8,000. In 1980 the Chrysler sailboat division is sold to Texas Marine Industries, (TMI). 1981-1982 Texas Marine Industries, (TMI). 1982 - 1984 Wellcraft Marine (STARWIND 15) 1984 - 1987 Gloucester Yachts (some as the GLOUCESTER 15) 1987 - 2003 Cardinal Yachts builds a small number. 2003 - Nickels Boats (current builder) purchased the molds from Cardinal.

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