CHERUB

Originally posted by JimC Originally posted by TheSeaFalcon  Looks great, I could never do something like that! You can spot a Bloodaxe built boat Cherub, for instance, by the way the fabric is all neatly aligned and smooth, the fillets are all eaxctly consistent in size, smooth and even and all the rest of it. A home built boat won't be like that, fillets may be rough, the fabric a bit wavey, all the rest of it, but provided that everything is basically in the right place it will still work. OK it will be heavier, and it will end up using loads more filler in fairing it and getting it smooth, ....

The bloodaxe built P7 cherub 2676 ( current and nat champ x 5 )weighed in as new at 40 kg,( and is still underweight at 48kg after many heavy recent mods )
The two newest professional built cherubs weighed 54 and 57 kg!!! ( ie 4kg and 7 kg overweight when new )

is it me or is that stem not straight? I hope your not trying to make it into
a 13ft skiff!

here are some of the "building" pics too..... its not going on the cherub site it's going into the mag.

Oi ellie I just spent ages writing a nice long PM and then it said you  were to popular and had recieved to many PM's and deleted it grrr ?!! Anyway delete some when you can and if your lucky i will type it again?!!!!

Or maybe i wont cos basically all i was saying is that yeah if you can be arsed it would be nice to get a 'cheery wave' from you and your mate on your walk past and dont forget to say bye this time he he he ! Take you both out if you want, sink the poor topper !!! is that the same mate who you took out last time?

Edited by Wave Rider

It is very true, as with all these things practise makes perfect. Since discovering peel ply everything has become so much easier! It helped with this conversion that I had help from Mr Cunningham so he knows his stuff more than the average. Next step... new boat. That should test my building skills as long as my money making skills allow it!