The Com-Pac 16 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Clark Mills as a small

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and first built in 1972.Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition'', pages 80-81. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. The design was superseded in production by the Com-Pac Legacy in 2006.Henkel, Steve: ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'', page 69.

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/ McGraw-Hill, 2010.

Production

The design was built by

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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

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rig with

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aluminum spars and a bowsprit. The hull has a spooned plumb stem, a vertical

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, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin, shoal-draft keel. The boat has a draft of 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 berths. The

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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

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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 , a waterline length of , displaces and carries of ballast. ;Com-Pac 16 Mark II :This model was introduced in 1975. It has a length overall of , a waterline length of , displaces and carries of ballast.

Operational history

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

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