MERCURY — AUS 615
Model: Farr 40
Updated
MERCURY (AUS 615) is a Farr 40 designed by Bruce Farr and built by Carroll Marine. She has been racing since 2024. She sails with a smaller sail plan and a shallower keel than most Farr 40s. Against a typical Farr 40 she is slower upwind in light air, on a beam reach and downwind.
Racing record
Races with at least six boats12
Race starts
0
Wins
17%
Podiums
67
Race Edge
Farr 40: 91
482.6s/mile
Rating 2026
Race Edge by wind strength: how much she delivers beyond her rating, compared with the other boats in her class.
Length
12.41 m
40′ 9″
Beam
3.96 m
Draft
2.60 m
Displacement
5.0 t
Sail area
105 m²
On the podium
Where MERCURY finishes when she goes racing.
On the podium
17%
of 12 starts · Farr 40 fleet: 27%
Wins
0%
Regattas
Every regatta we found with MERCURY on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
Pittwater Regatta - NSW ORC Championship2025234447- Pittwater Regatta - NSW ORC Championship20249710897
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Report a regattaRound the buoys, or offshore
A short windward-leeward and a night at sea ask different things of a boat.
Round the buoys
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Not enough data yet: 9 races of 10 NM or less carry a published distance.
Offshore & coastal
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Not enough data yet: 3 races over 10 NM carry a published distance.
Who she races against
The boats MERCURY meets most often on the start line. The bar shows how those meetings ended, on corrected time.
Other competitors (4)
Met too few times for a figure.
OLD SCHOOL RACING (DK 46, 6 meetings), DAGUET 2 (Mylius 50, 6 meetings), LOCKDOWN (Melges 32, 6 meetings), ORGANISED CHAOS (1d35, 6 meetings)
How MERCURY compares with a typical Farr 40
Her main 2026 measurements against the middle of the fleet: one boat per sail number, the latest full-crew configuration with spinnaker, Farr 40s measured since 2025.
Above the line she is quicker than a typical Farr 40; below, slower. Move the wind: plenty of boats sit on one side in the light and the other when it blows.
Full width is 0.6 kn either way.
At 10 knots she gives away time to a typical Farr 40 on the beam reach.
Speed at every angle
MERCURY in blue, a typical Farr 40 dashed.
MERCURY in blue, a typical Farr 40 dashed; green marks the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Other Farr 40s racing
Every sister ship with results on TackRegatta, the most recently raced first.
More about the Farr 40
Speed at every angle, Race Edge, the race record of the whole fleet and how the boats are set up.
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