Merit Cup

{{Infobox Sailing yacht

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| nat = {{flagcountry|MON}}

| class =Volvo Ocean 60

| sailno =MON–7000

| designer = Bruce Farr

| builder = Martin Marine

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| skip =Grant Dalton

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| length = {{convert|19.5|m|ft|abbr=on}} (LOA)

| beam = {{convert|5.25|m|ft|abbr=on}}

| draft ={{convert|3.75|m|ft|abbr=on}}

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| displacement ={{Convert|29,700|lb|kg|abbr=on|order=flip}}

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Merit Cup is a yacht. She finished second in the 1997–98 Whitbread Round the World Race skippered by Grant Dalton.{{Cite web |url=http://www.kriter.tv/history/whitbread_history.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-09-19 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235321/http://www.kriter.tv/history/whitbread_history.pdf |url-status=dead }}

Career

Merit Cup was designed by Bruce Farr and built by Martin Marine.{{Citation | title = The Entries | journal = Yachting | volume =181 | issue = 10 | year = 1997| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=8VopwE6qUEEC}}

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