Design
Cherub
Designed by John Spencer
The Cherub is a 12 ft two-person racing dinghy drawn by John Spencer in Auckland in 1951 for his friend Ray Early, who built the first one himself in hard chine plywood. It was taken up as a development class, so the hull shape and rig may be changed within a few measurement limits, and it is sailed in New Zealand, Australia and Britain.
The early boats were 3/16 in plywood with a hard chine aft, built to a stripped hull weight of 110 lb, which took real care in a garage. Until about 1980 most were still 3 and 4 mm plywood; foam sandwich hulls followed. Because the class is a development class, every boat is a little different, and a log of a new build or a rebuild records exactly what was tried. The national Cherub associations keep the rules and a register of boats.
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| Design | Plans from | LOA | Logs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 ft Keelboat | Benford Design Group | 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) | 0 |
| Breeze Baby | Grandpa's Archive | 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) | 0 |
| Catboat | Andrew Walters Design | 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) | 0 |
| Classic 12 | Geodesic Airolite Boats | 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) | 0 |
| Glen-L 12 | Glen-L Marine | 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) | 0 |
| International Twelve Foot Dinghy | George Cockshott | 12′ 0″ (3.66 m) | 0 |