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.
We also got to see the whales up pretty close. The height they can get out of the water and the huge noise they make when blasting water out of their blowholes was truly amazing!
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