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Review of Com-Pac 16


Basic specs.

sail specifications
The Com-Pac 16 is a small sailboat.

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Hull
The hull is made of fibreglass. Generally, a hull made of fibreglass requires only a minimum of maintenance during the sailing season. And outside the sailing season, just bottom cleaning and perhaps anti-fouling painting once a year - a few hours of work, that's all.

Rig
The boat equipped with a fractional rig. A fractional rig has smaller headsails which make tacking easier, which is an advantage for cruisers and racers, of course. The downside is that having the wind from behind often requires a genaker or a spinnaker for optimal speed.

Keel

The Com-Pac 16 is equipped with a fin keel. The fin keel is the most common keel and provides splendid manoeuvrability. The downside is that it has less directional stability than a long keel.

The boat can enter even shallow marinas as the draft is just about 0.46 - 0.56 meter (1.51 - 1.81 ft) dependent on the load.


Sailing characteristics

This section covers widely used rules of thumb to describe the sailing characteristics. Please note that even though the calculations are correct, the interpretation of the results might not be valid for extreme boats.

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Sailing statistics

This section is statistical comparison with similar boats of the same category. The basis of the following statistical computations is our unique database with more than 26,000 different boat types and 350,000 data points.

Ballast Ratio

What is a Ballast Ratio?

The ballast ratio for Com-Pac 16 is 41%.

Low High 76% 0 50 100
This ballast ratio shows a righting moment that is higher than 76% of all similar sailboat designs. A righting moment (ability to resist heeling) significantly above average.


Maintenance

Rig

Dimensions of sail for fractional rig.

mainsail specifications headsail specifications

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If you need to renew parts of your running rig and is not quite sure of the dimensions, you may find the estimates computed below useful.



Guiding dimensions of running rig
UsageLengthDiameter
Mainsail halyard 13.7 m(44.9 feet)6 mm(1/4 inch)
Jib/genoa halyard13.7 m(44.9 feet)6 mm(1/4 inch)
Spinnaker halyard13.7 m(44.9 feet)6 mm(1/4 inch)
Jib sheet 5.2 m(16.9 feet)8 mm(5/16 inch)
Genoa sheet5.2 m(16.9 feet)8 mm(5/16 inch)
Mainsheet 12.9 m(42.3 feet)8 mm(5/16 inch)
Spinnaker sheet11.4 m(37.2 feet)8 mm(5/16 inch)
Cunningham2.4 m(8.0 feet)6 mm(1/4 inch)
Kickingstrap4.9 m(16.0 feet)6 mm(1/4 inch)
Clew-outhaul4.9 m(16.0 feet)6 mm(1/4 inch)

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