At Warneet motoring kids up and down Cannons Creek. No wind for sailing but kids are having a ball. WMYC Commodore Trevor Davidson came down for a chat.
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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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1 comment:
Hi Jaxsen,
Yarrawonga was a great experience.... First time of having my Cherry 16 in the water and the start of my brilliant sailing career! The event was held at the Yarrawonga Yacht Club and I went as a prospective member with the Melbourne Trailable Yacht Club. I have a friend who is a member of the club and he sails his Hartley 16 with them.
The fact that there was very little wind and an incredible amount of weed in the lake and river system, made hard work of any sailing that was to be had. The constant need to free the rudder and keel from the entangled weed was soooo boring. We did however have a large thunder storm late Saturday afternoon which provided us with some much needed wind and lashings of thunder and lightning!
I'm sorry that I don't have any photos of the storm, but I do have some other photos and I will forward them to you after I have downloaded them to my computer. My boat took on a bucket or two of water over the course of the weekend so I'll have to try and track down just where It's coming from and fix it asap. Overall, the weekend was a great success and a very steep learning curve for me. With so many things to learn and consider apart from the"just sailing" to master ! Docking, tying various knots and using an outboard motor for the very first time comes to mind.
Sorry to hear that you didn't get a chance to sail over the long weekend, however, having a good time with the kids is a good thing to do as well. Thanks for your blog, and I will be in contact again soon.
Cheers Will
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