Under rated boats

Isis is right, I so tired of going to this topic and not finding any pics.  Here's me in somebody elses boat

Originally posted by Blobby Stretching it there Jim!

No, Jim is quite right. The cherub, by John Spencer, spawned a longer version, the Javelin, which was the basis for the Tasar, Bethwaite adapting lines to suit his design brief.

lol,  just a little.

 i didn't know the tasar and the javelin came from the cherub

Originally posted by laser47 lol,  just a little.  i didn't know the tasar and the javelin came from the cherub

You can make a case that every skiff influenced new dinghy decends from John Spancer's orginal Pennant Class design "Cherub", and if you really stretch (both ways) all the big lightweight offshore boats too, which are in the lineage of John Spencer's "Ragtime" which had a certain look of 65ft Cherub about it with its lightweight hull and hard chines.

Spencer was by far the most underated and perhaps the most influential designer of the second half of the twentieth century. Amongst those he was personally involved with were the Bethwaites, Ron Holland and Bruce Farr.

A couple of obituaries...





http://www.firebug.co.nz/images/acrobat/download/js_obituary .pdf

http://www.sailingsource.com/cherub/spencer.htm

Edited by JimC

Well we regularly meet at stone henge, dance round camp fires, eat dead bats and bath in smod sailors blood..... mwah ha ha ha

(the majority of this post may in fact be totally fictional)


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