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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The Cheruby Gathering continued today with the arrival of another three boats having arrived by the afternoon, including the very shiny new E6 Eleanor which looks set to dazzle the fleet. The beach is starting to look busy. The Largo Bay Sunday Club racing took place in a lumpy F4-F5, although none of the Cherubs had managed to complete rigging till all the club boats had got back in, and the wind had dropped a bit later in the Afernoon a few Cherubs ventured afload, including Phil and Carol in Pocket Rocket, The Strathclyde Keelboat Squad in The Flying Kipper, Dave and Nick in Shiny Beast, Tim, and Kate in The Cats Wiskers.
