MAYFLY
Fractional Sloop • Centerboard Dinghy • Built 1957
Dimensions
- LOA
- 12.75 ft
- LWL
- 12 ft
- Beam
- 5.5 ft
- Max Draft
- 3.5 ft
- Min Draft
- 0.42 ft
- Displacement
- 155 lbs
- Ballast
- — lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 4.10 (use caution offshore)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 49.9
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 40
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- —
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 90 sq ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Centerboard Dinghy
- Rig Type
- Fractional Sloop
- Hull Material
- Ply/single chine
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1957
- Last Built
- —
- Number Built
- —
Notes: An early, light weight,low cost yet high performance dinghy. \nThe single chine, slab sided hull simplified construction for the amateur builder.\nAn unfinished, bare hull version was also available.\nThough several hundred were built and raced as a class for a few years, it seems to have been eclipsed in favor of the similar but slightly larger SEAFLY, from the same builder which sold in larger numbers and was later offered in fiberglass.\nAn excellent web site, seaflymemories.com relates in greater detail, what is known of both boats, which today are rarely seen.
Class Association
Related Boats
| Name | LOA (ft) | Year | Rig |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEAFLY | 14.75 | 1963 | Fractional Sloop |