Chesapeake Marine Design Windward 15
Description
The Winward 15 (almost certainly a typo/spelling variation of the Windward 15) is a popular plywood daysailer/beach cruiser designed by Karl A. Stambaugh of Chesapeake Marine Design (CMD). It is offered strictly as plans for amateur builders using simple "glue-and-screw" plywood construction. No factory production occurred; an unknown but relatively high number of hulls have been completed by homebuilders, as it ranks among CMD’s most popular small-boat designs. The boat is based on traditional Chesapeake Bay crabbing skiff forms, with a vee-bottom hull for better sailing performance, a spacious cockpit for family/friends or cruising gear, small forward deck/cuddy area, shallow draft for easy beaching and trailering, and outboard motor capability on the transom. It emphasizes stability, forgiving handling, traditional aesthetics, and straightforward construction. This is the sailing-oriented version in Stambaugh’s small skiff family — slightly beamier and heavier than the related Sailing Skiff 15 (170 lb, narrower 4'6" beam, ultra-shoal 4" draft when board up).
Construction Details
| Designer | Karl A. Stambaugh |
|---|---|
| Builder | Home Built |
| Length | 15.000 ft |
| LOA | 15.000 ft |
| Beam | 5.000 ft |
| Displacement | 250 lb |
| Max Draft | 2.670 ft |
| Min Draft | 1.500 ft |
The standard boat dimensions
| i | - |
|---|---|
| j | - |
| p | 16.33 ft |
| e | 9.30 ft |
| p2 | - |
| e2 | - |
| i2 | - |
| j2 | - |
| I | J | P | E | P2 | E2 | I2 | J2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 16.33 ft | 9.30 ft | - | - | - | - |
Documents
Sails
Chesapeake Marine Design Windward 15 - MAINSAIL
| Luff | 16.33 ft - (4977 mm) |
|---|---|
| Foot | 10.67 ft - (3252 mm) |
| Leech | * 18.98 ft - (5785 mm) |
| Tack Angle | * 87.98 ° |
| Diagonal | * 19.19 ft - (5849 mm) |
| Head (inches) | * 4.5 in - (114 mm) |
| Area | 86.97 ft² |
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Chesapeake Marine Design Windward 15 - JIBSAIL
| Luff | 10.83 ft - (3301 mm) |
|---|---|
| Foot | 4.25 ft - (1295 mm) |
| Leech | 8.75 ft - (2667 mm) |
| Length Perpendicular | 3.27 ft - (997 mm) |
| Area | 17.71 ft² |
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Disclaimer. Boats are not all the same -- even when produced in the same factory of the same model. Sailrite does its best to publish accurate dimensions, but we often find it worthwhile to have our customers measure their boats carefully before we produce kits for them. You should take the same precautions, especially when the data is not from Sailrite. The information on this site is not guaranteed to be accurate. Sailrite offers this content as a service to our community, but takes no responsibility for the reliability of the data provided.
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