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.
2 comments:
Hi Trevor, She looks grand! Any chance of some more photos showing how you have her set up etc. Cheers Will
Sorry liam
I had a hard drive meltdown on my last computer and lost most of my pics. I have a friend who took fotos of build, I will see if I can get copies. The setup of the rig is very basic consisting of all secondhand dinghy sails modded to suit. I am sure the boat will perform a lot better with a new rig, which will come eventually.
The 2 pack paint finish is superb and was professionally sprayed by my son in law.
This year we came 5th in Div.2 in the Warneet Around French Island race, which is about 70 kilometres, the boat handles some rough water very well indeed and is a lot of fun to sail.
Regards
Trevor D
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