The UK Cherub is a two-person 12 foot racing dinghy with asymmetric spinnaker and twin trapezes. Just twelve feet long, weighing around 70kgs fully rigged for sailing, the UK Cherub combines spectacular performance with the “on the edge” handling characteristics only found in true lightweight skiffs.
The UK Cherub rules are simple and allow for maximum flexibility for designers, allowing boats to be created to incorporate sailor's own ideas. Also meaning the class develops over time as techniques, materials and ideas improve. All this makes the Cherub one of the most interesting and innovative of all dinghies: The challenge extends from the sailing skills to setting up the boat to suit the sailor, and maybe even designing and building, too.
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This is the latest hull to come off a mould in 2009. This one in Dubai to the Paterson 8 design, built by Doug.
By the author's (post on-call) reckoning, that makes it ~5 new boats in 2009!
Tis the season to get Jiggy
Congratulations to the two new owners in the fleet, with both Easy Tiger and Flat Stanley being snapped up from ebay.
Flat Stanley's ex-owner has already made a start on the christmas decorations. As long as it looks like a boat 1) by 6th of January he'll avoid a year of bad luck…