DEFENDER 15
Masthead Sloop • Fin with rudder on skeg • Built 1969–1972
Dimensions
- LOA
- 26.25 ft
- LWL
- 19 ft
- Beam
- 8.25 ft
- Max Draft
- 4.16 ft
- Displacement
- 4,400 lbs
- Ballast
- 1,900 lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 2.01 (use caution offshore)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 14.3
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 286
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- 43.2%
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 240 sq ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Fin with rudder on skeg
- Rig Type
- Masthead Sloop
- Hull Material
- FG
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1969
- Last Built
- 1972
- Number Built
- —
Notes: IOR 1/4 ton.\nWith more freeboard and a new deck/coachroof, it became the DEFENDER 27.
Designers
- Jacques Gaubert
- Andre Mauric (1909–2003)