CAPE COD KNOCKABOUT
Fractional Sloop • Centerboard Dinghy • Built 1925
Dimensions
- LOA
- 18 ft
- LWL
- 15.5 ft
- Beam
- 6 ft
- Max Draft
- 4.17 ft
- Min Draft
- 0.75 ft
- Displacement
- 650 lbs
- Ballast
- — lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 2.77 (use caution offshore)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 35.2
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 78
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- —
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 165 sq ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Centerboard Dinghy
- Rig Type
- Fractional Sloop
- Hull Material
- Wood /FG
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1925
- Last Built
- —
- Number Built
- 2700
Notes: Originally called the CAPE COD BABY KNOCKABOUT. Charles Gurney was the founder of Cape Cod Shipbuilding. Fiberglass construction was approved in 1960. Spinnakers were added in 1938. (150 sq. ft.). One of the most popular one-design classes in New England for many years. \nA fixed keel, 'Lake George' version (sailed at Lake George, NY USA), was also built.
Builder
- Cape Cod Shipbuilding (1899)