Boat Description
- Model: Nelson/Merck 50
- Year: 1988
- Designer: Nelson/Merck
- Builder: Jim Betts
- Configuration: IOR Racing Sloop
- Construction: Carbon Fiber, E-glass, Divinicell core
- Ballast Type: Lead Fin
- Rudder: Carbon rudder stock and Titanium quadrant. 6' wheel, new leather
cover in 1998
- IMS updated 1991 (extensive interior upgrade, deck house, and aft
waterline)
- IMS Certificate (in Adobe PDF)
Dimensions
- Length overall: 50 feet
- Maximum beam: 14' - 6"
- Draft: 9' - 6"
- Displacement: 26,000 lbs
- Rating: LMPHRF 3
- Hull color: Grey
Engine
- Perkins 4 cylinders 80hp 1988
- Full engine instruments
- 24" 2 blade max prop
- 8 knots cruising speed at 2600 RPM
- 2 Racor fuel filters
Accommodations
- Finished white interior
- Table over engine, white with teak trim, and pullout sides
- 6 pipe berths, 2 wider adjustable berths, sleeps 8 total
- Navigators station aft on center line, near aft hatch
- Galley by ladder to port
- Enclosed head with sink
- Floorboards, teak and holly (non-skid) veneer, west epoxy, divinicell,
refinished 1999
Galley
- Stainless Stove, 3 burner with oven, propane, with 12 VDC solenoid
safety switch
- Built in cooler, high capacity
- Kevlar galley sink.
Tankage
- Fuel: 35 gallons, aluminum, and below deck fill
- Water: 35 gallons, aluminum
- Holding: 15 gallon bladder
Electronic and Navigation Equipment
- Compass, Center
- Compass, Port and Starboard
- VHF,Standard with deck mounted remote control Mic
- GPS, Garman Hand held
- Radar, Furuno
- Sailing instruments - Ockam (firmware updated 1999)
- 3 on deck readouts, 1 at nav station
- 4 jumbo mast readouts - rebuilt in 1998
- heel, trim
- Ockam soft (requires laptop and Ockam rs-232 interface)
- Forstay load sensor rebuilt 1999
- Extended Carbon wind sensor 1998
- Sonic Speed sensor 1999
- Ritchie MS100 Flexgate Compass 1998
- Datamarine depth with Ockam interface
Electrical System
- Batteries
- House: four - 6V High capacity Deep cycle industrial, two 12volt
banks, 1998
- Engine start: Gel Cell, 1 each
- Custom breaker panel
- Battery isolator
- Shore Power: Trace inverter/charger rebuilt 1999
Safety Equipment
- Person overboard module (MOB)
- Strobe light attached to lifering
- Liferings, 2
- Life jackets, with strobe lights and whistles, 10
- Foghorn (air)
- 3 Fire extinguishers
- Bilge pumps, 2 manual cockpit mounted Whale gusher and interior by engine
- Bilge pump, 1 electric, 12 VDC with manual switches
- Titanium Bow pulpit, Stern pulpit, and lifeline stanchions
- 3 sets of reflective sail numbers
Deck Hardware
- Winches - Lewmar, self-tailing, aluminum (unless noted)
- #? primary 3 speed, 2 each, center pedestal drive
- #700 secondary 3 speed , 2 each
- #550 main sheet 3 speed, 2 each
- #520 halyard winches 2 speed, 2 each
- Harken Halyard winch 2 speed (New 1998)
- #650 runner winches 2 speed , 2 each
- Halyard stoppers, Spinlock, 5 will hold halyards under load
- Spars and rigging
- Polish aluminum mast by Offshore Spars
- Discontinuous Navtec rod rigging
- Spare aluminum mast
- Hydraulic mast jack rebuilt 1997
- Boom, aluminum
- Carbon fiber spinnaker poles (2)
- Kevlar Running backstays w/ titanium blocks
- Two-speed Navtec pump with gages rebuilt in 1997
- Hydraulic backstay with Titanium adjusting cylinder
- Hydraulic vang
- Tuff Luff headstay foil new in 1997
- Turning blocks, all Harken, renewed in 1998
- Running rigging (of special note)
- jib sheets, 5/8" spectra, 1997
- spinnaker sheets, stripped 3/8" maxi braid, 1999
- 4 halyards, two new stripped 7/16" crystaline in 1999, jib
halyard 1998, one spare 1997 halyard
- afterguys 5/8"
- main sheet, 1/2" maxi braid, 1999
- adjustable harken jib cars, rebuilt by harken in 1999
- harken main traveler, upsized in 1999
- all sparcraft shackles on halyards and sheets