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JY15

Sailboat class

Field	Value
name	JY15
class_image	Image:JY15 logo.png
image boat	JY15s_Racing_at_Raritan_Yacht_Club.jpg
image caption	JY15s racing at the Raritan Yacht Club, Perth Amboy, New Jersey
designer	Rod Johnstone
location	United States
year	1989
no built	3000
builder	JY Sailboats
Hunter Marine
Nickels Boat Works
Windrider
crew	2
draft	3.00 ft
displacement	275 lb
hull type	Monohull
construction	ACP (Advanced Composite Plastic) or Fiberglass
loa	15.00 ft
beam	5.83 ft
keel type	centerboard
ballast	none
rudder type	transom-mounted rudder
rig type	Bermuda rig
sailplan	Fractional rigged sloop
sailarea main	100 sqft
sailarea headsail	35 sqft
sailarea total	135 sqft

Hunter Marine Nickels Boat Works Windrider

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The JY15 is an American one-design centerboard dinghy designed by Rod Johnstone in 1989.

Production

The boat was built by JY Sailboats and then by Hunter Marine in the United States. The design was acquired by Nickels Boats Works and built from 2011. Nickels merged with WindRider LLC of Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2015 and production continued, but had ended by 2020.

Design

The JY15 is a recreational, planing hull, sailing dinghy, built predominantly of Advanced Composite Process (ACP) by JY Sailboats and Hunter and later from fiberglass by Nickels and WindRider. It has a fractional sloop, a raked stem, a vertical transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller with an extension and a folding centerboard. It displaces 275 lb.

The boat has a draft of 3.00 ft with the centreboard extended and 0.50 ft with it retracted, allowing beaching or ground transportation on a trailer.

The stays have lever adjusters for rapid set-up and the mast disassembles for ease of ground transport. The mainsheet is a 2:1 and is led off to the centerboard trunk. The rudder swings up for launching and recovering in shallow water. The design is optimized for crew hiking out, with hiking straps and rounded deck and hull for comfort.

The Hunter-production JY-15 was made out of ACP (Advanced Composite Process). ACP is a laminate consisting of a foam core, an inner fiberglass skin, and a 1/8" outer plastic skin. When the design was acquired by Nickels it was rendered in fiberglass.

Operational history

The JY15 is sailed in over 80 fleets in the US.

References

Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition'', pages 50-51. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. {{ISBN. 0-395-65239-1
Browning, Randy. (2018). "JY 15 sailboat specifications and details". sailboatdata.com.
McArthur, Bruce. (2022). "Hunter Marine". sailboatdata.com.
Browning, Randy. (2018). "Nickels Boat Works, Inc. (USA)". sailboatdata.com.
[[Hunter Marine]]. "Previous Models". www.marlow-hunter.com.
WindRider. "JY15". www.windrider.com.

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