3 Men in a boat was reasonably comfortable and fun but 2 would be optimum.
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Cherry 16 Specifications
LOA 4.75m, Beam 2.15m, Trailer Weight 220Kg
Sail Area
Main 7.6 sq meter, Jib 3.8 sq meter, Spinnaker 7.8 sq meter
The Cherry is a light weight trailer yacht designed to be built with a minimum of experience. The bottom and side panels are scarfed together to form full length panels. These are then laced together with 80lbs monofilament line or copper wire and all the joins glass taped with two layers of fibreglass tape and epoxy resin bonded. The hull itself takes 3 to 4 days to build and the complete craft approximately 3 weeks.
The layout consists of a vee bunk forward plus two quarter berths under the cockpit seats. The bunks form an intergral part of the structure of the craft. The Cherry has a fairly fine entry and flattens out to a wide planing section aft, and the large cockpit, nearly 2.4 m long allows the weight of the crew to be kept amidships when sailing. Because of the light weight, the rig has been kept relatively small but the sail area to weight is comparable with most other craft of this type. The pivoting centreboard is housed under the cockpit floor and is controlled by a wire strop coming up over the pully and is raised and lowered with a simple block and tackle. Because of the light weight the Cherry is easily trailered and requires only an extended box trailer or a simple trailer with two cradles.
All plywood panels are 6mm thick, except the centreboard case and cockpit floor which is 9mm. The Cherry will take a 6 HP outboard motor mounted on the transom bracket.
Sail Area
Main 7.6 sq meter, Jib 3.8 sq meter, Spinnaker 7.8 sq meter
The Cherry is a light weight trailer yacht designed to be built with a minimum of experience. The bottom and side panels are scarfed together to form full length panels. These are then laced together with 80lbs monofilament line or copper wire and all the joins glass taped with two layers of fibreglass tape and epoxy resin bonded. The hull itself takes 3 to 4 days to build and the complete craft approximately 3 weeks.
The layout consists of a vee bunk forward plus two quarter berths under the cockpit seats. The bunks form an intergral part of the structure of the craft. The Cherry has a fairly fine entry and flattens out to a wide planing section aft, and the large cockpit, nearly 2.4 m long allows the weight of the crew to be kept amidships when sailing. Because of the light weight, the rig has been kept relatively small but the sail area to weight is comparable with most other craft of this type. The pivoting centreboard is housed under the cockpit floor and is controlled by a wire strop coming up over the pully and is raised and lowered with a simple block and tackle. Because of the light weight the Cherry is easily trailered and requires only an extended box trailer or a simple trailer with two cradles.
All plywood panels are 6mm thick, except the centreboard case and cockpit floor which is 9mm. The Cherry will take a 6 HP outboard motor mounted on the transom bracket.
CHERRY ARTICLES
Favourite links
- http://boats-storerdesign.blogspot.com
- http://homepage.mac.com/peterhyndman/GIS/
- http://stores.ebay.com.au/Spinny-Things-Trailer-Parts/TECHNICAL-GUIDE.html
- http://www.bateau.com/
- http://www.berkeley-engineering.com/index.html
- http://www.biasboating.com.au/
- http://www.boatdesign.net/plans/index.htm
- http://www.boatplans.dk/
- http://www.clcboats.com/index.php
- http://www.common-sense-boats.com/
- http://www.duckflatwoodenboats.com/
- http://www.glen-l.com/
- http://www.learning2sail.co.uk/
- http://www.nisboats.com/
- http://www.pelinplans.co.nz/catalogue.htm
- http://www.seabreeze.com.au/Graphs/vic.asp
- http://www.trailawayboatkits.com.au/
- http://www.trailersailerplace.com.au
- http://www.users.on.net/~dbannon/cherry/
- http://www.whitworths.com.au/main_home.asp
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7 comments:
have you actually had a sail in this yet that is with the sails and kite up and how did it perform?
also what size outboard are you using?
We put the sails up and sailed for bit but the wind picked up 20-25 kts and it got really choppy (Half Moon Bay - Black Rock) so we motored back as both my mates have never been sailing before and was getting sick of yelling orders at them. Performance was good from what i can tell from our short clumsy effort (I used to sail/race a Mirror). The outboard is a newish yamaha 2 hp. This is sufficient to get the boat close to hull speed even with 3 men. (The Cherry 16 is only a little bit bigger than a West Wight Potter 15 which comes factory standard with 2.5 hp.) 4 hp would probably be ideal.
hi, is this the half moon bay in Auckland you are talking about?
Half Moon Bay, Black Rock, Victoria, Australia.
My daughter owns Stoned which is fully optimized for racing including tapered mast with spreaders, fully battened loose foot main, mylar genoa, 1/2 oz triradial spinnaker with launcher, and fully set up with end boom sheeting, jib and spinnaker barber haulers etc. The yacht fully complies with the class rules/specifications and resulted in establishing the CBH .590.
For racing purposes the yacht must have an engine which enables hull speed to be reached gouing into a 12 knot headwind. This can be achieved with a Yamaha 2hp which only weighs 9kg.
Hi,
Have just purchased a Cherry 16 with sail numbwer 359 - any information about its name and history would be most welcome.
Cheers,
Steve
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