WAYFARER
Fractional Sloop • Centerboard Dinghy • Built 1957
Dimensions
- LOA
- 15.83 ft
- LWL
- 14.83 ft
- Beam
- 6.08 ft
- Max Draft
- 3.83 ft
- Min Draft
- 0.67 ft
- Displacement
- 372 lbs
- Ballast
- — lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 3.38 (use caution offshore)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 43.6
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 51
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- —
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 141 sq ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Centerboard Dinghy
- Rig Type
- Fractional Sloop
- Hull Material
- Ply (multi-chine)/FG
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1957
- Last Built
- —
- Number Built
- 8400
Notes:
The original plywood boat was available also, in kit form. (Small Craft Ltd.)
Design updated by Phil Morrison in 2007.
A modified version, identical in shape of wetted hull and sail plan, called the CL16 has been built in CANADA since 1968. At about this same time, Whitby Boat Works in Canada was granted a license to build Wayfarer boats in fiberglass.
Designers
- Phil Morrison
- Ian Proctor (1918–1992)
Builders
- Abbott Boats Inc. (1950)
- Hartley Boats (1988)
- Whitby Boat Works Ltd. (CAN) (1960–1988)