The Cape Cod Gemini is an American

sailing dinghy Dinghy sailing is the activity of sailing small boats by using five essential controls: * the sails * the foils (i.e. the daggerboard or centreboard and rudder and sometimes lifting foils as found on the Moth) * the trim (forward/rear angle of ...

that was designed by A. Sidney DeWolf Herreshoff as a

day sailer A daysailer, day sailer, or dayboat is a small sailboat with or without sleeping accommodations but which is larger than a dinghy. Dayboats can be mono hull or multihull, and are typically trailer-able. Many dayboats have a small cabin or "cu ...

and first built in 1955.

Production

The design was initially built by the

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and later by

Cape Cod Shipbuilding Cape Cod Shipbuilding is an American boat builder based in Wareham, Massachusetts. The company specializes in the manufacture of fiberglass sailboats. The company was founded by brothers Myron and Charles Gurney in 1899. History The company s ...

in the

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. A total of 150 boats have been completed since 1955, but it is now out of production. The manufacturer indicates that the molds are still available and that production could be re-started with a fleet order.

Design

The Cape Cod Gemini is a planing

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, initially built of wood and later constructed of

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, with wood trim. It has a fractional

sloop A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...

rig, a

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, an angled

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, a transom-hung

rudder A rudder is a primary control surface used to steer a ship, boat, submarine, hovercraft, aircraft, or other vehicle that moves through a fluid medium (generally aircraft, air or watercraft, water). On an aircraft the rudder is used primarily to ...

controlled by a

tiller A tiller or till is a lever used to steer a vehicle. The mechanism is primarily used in watercraft, where it is attached to an outboard motor, rudder post or stock to provide leverage in the form of torque for the helmsman to turn the rudder. ...

and twin retractable

leeboards A leeboard is a form of pivoting keel used by a sailboat largely and very often in lieu of a fixed keel. Typically mounted in pairs on each side of a hull, leeboards function much like a centreboard, allowing shallow-draft craft to ply waters f ...

. It displaces . The boat has a draft of with a leeboard extended and with both retracted, allowing operation in shallow water, beaching or ground transportation on a trailer. The design is normally sailed with a crew of two

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s, but can accommodate up to five adults. The design has a

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of .

References

External links

Official website
{{Sailing dinghies and skiffs Dinghies 1950s sailboat type designs Sailing yachts Sailboat type designs by A. Sidney DeWolf Herreshoff Sailboat types built by Cape Cod Shipbuilding

Production

Design

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