CORTEZ 16
Fractional Sloop • Keel/Cbrd. • Built 1973
Dimensions
- LOA
- 16 ft
- LWL
- 13.58 ft
- Beam
- 6.75 ft
- Max Draft
- 4 ft
- Min Draft
- 0.75 ft
- Displacement
- 850 lbs
- Ballast
- 300 lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 2.85 (use caution offshore)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 25.0
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 152
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- 35.3%
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 140 sq ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Keel/Cbrd.
- Rig Type
- Fractional Sloop
- Hull Material
- FG
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1973
- Last Built
- —
- Number Built
- —
Notes:
Tooling (for the hull) adapted from an earlier boat called SUN DOWNER 16. A later boat, the DRIFTER 17 shares these same origins.
Thanks to Tony Davis, former partner at Sun Downer Yachts, for providing additional information.
Designer
- William Crealock (1920–2009)