Com-Pac 16

The Com-Pac 16 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Clark Mills as a small cruiser and first built in 1972.

The design was superseded in production by the Com-Pac Legacy in 2006.

Production
The design was built by Com-Pac Yachts in the United States, starting in 1972. Over 2,800 boats were completed, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Com-Pac 16 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with teak wood trim. It has a 7/8 fractional sloop rig with anodized aluminum spars and a bowsprit. The hull has a spooned plumb stem, a vertical transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin, shoal-draft keel.

The boat has a draft of 18 in with the standard keel and is normally fitted with a small outboard motor for docking and maneuvering.

The design has sleeping accommodation for two people in two 96 in berths. The head is a portable type. Ventilation is provided by a single foredeck hatch. Stowage space includes a lazarette.

For sailing the design may be equipped with either a working jib or a genoa. It has jiffy reefing, navigation lights, a stainless steel pulpit, a boarding ladder and a self-bailing cockpit.

The design has a PHRF racing average handicap of 326. It is normally raced with a crew of two sailors.

Variants

 * Com-Pac 16
 * This model was introduced in 1971. It has a length overall of 16.00 ft, a waterline length of 14.00 ft, displaces 1100 lb and carries 450 lb of ballast.


 * Com-Pac 16 Mark II
 * This model was introduced in 1975. It has a length overall of 16.92 ft, a waterline length of 14.00 ft, displaces 1100 lb and carries 450 lb of ballast.

Operational history
In a 1994 review Richard Sherwood described the design as, "a small, trailerable cruiser with a fixed, shoal draft keel."