Legacy Factory Sheet~Picture.

[Craig Weis]

The Com-Pac 16 replacement is the Legacy.





Nice boat as far as I can see. Anybody sail one yet?

skip.

[Craig Weis]

kahp ho [I found my 'red' LED extra cabin light at a garage sail, $2 and it came out of a camper and the LED bulb is from AutoZone, about $8. For a car tail light.]

So I'm thinking, have you sailed the Legacy yet?
If so how did that go?
A fun boat?
Does she come about OK in light airs with that fixed keel?
No centerboard right? [I forget] Opps. I was incorrect. It has a centerboard but no trunk?
Maybe a little tender?
Looks narrow.
So it's speedy?
How do ya like that arch? I like it. I think.
The smaller the boat, the faster things happen. Like rolling off the stern with no transom.
How do you like that 'no transom?' Opps. I was wrong. It has a wee transom.
Good for O/B motor access.
How did it feel?
Equal to a Com Pac-16?
Feel like a 'bigger' boat?
Some sailors swear by the Boom Tendr* system.
Other sailors swear at the Boom Tendr* system.
What do you think?
Where do you sail?
How do you go fwd with almost no deck?
What do you have for an auxiliary outboard?
Inquiring minds need to know.

*Mast Tendr?

Thanx skip.

[nies]

Skip, glad your back, we really missed the "CAPTAIN" of our" DOMAIN".........Phil

[kahpho]

Hey Skip,

I haven't had this boat on the water yet. I got it in the fall at the end of our sailing season. Our best local lakes are at elevations of 4500'-5000'. Winter comes earlier there :[  I'll have'ta let you know next year how it sails.

It does have a centerboard and a transom. The coaming is cut away almost to the seat level in the stern but there are safety lines around the cockpit. I'll be fitting out over the winter. So far I have a Honda 2hp for a kicker, a compass (yet to be mounted) and an anchor and rode. Also, not finding any LED cabin lights that I like (and choking on the $100 prices) I've collected the pieces I need to "roll my own". That's about it. More details when available.

Mel

[B.Hart]

   Good looking boat, I wonder how it sails vs the 16, and who is the designer?  BILL

[kahpho]

Good question Bill. I'm not able to answer since I haven't had the opportunity to sail mine yet. Also, I haven't sailed a CP16. Come to think of it I haven't even seen a CP16 in this neck of the woods, or any other ComPac for that matter. If anyone has first hand experience with both boats, I'd sure like to hear about it.

mel

[Joseph]

From what I have seen, the Legacy *is* the 16, with the "Boomtendr (the sloop version of the Mastendr), without a transom and with some other minor adjustments made probably in an effort to reduce costs and make the new boats competitive against their own older relatives that are still going strong. As such my guess is that the designer of the Legacy (the choice of this name was also probably not a coincidence) would have been the Hutchins Team with a lot to be owed to the original 16 design. I seriously considered the Legacy, but opted for the Suncat mainly because of a more spacious cabin. I appreciated the advantages of its sloop rig but did not like the open transom concept. It also looked too sensitive to weight distribution. Well balanced, I bet that it sails like a dream. Here is a review on the Legacy: http://www.tropicalboating.com/sailing/sailboat-reviews/compac-legacy.html

J.

[kahpho]

I'm a little mystified by the conception that the Legacy doesn't have a transom. Skip has repeated this a number of times too. Perhaps it's a simple confusion between the Legacy (16) and the Eclipse (19-20something). The Eclipse is decidedly an open transom boat, and advertised as such. The Legacy really isn't. There's one sitting in my driveway and, yep, still has a transom. It's cut down a bit in the stern, I guess to facilitate climbing in over the transom and under the boom gallows (or is that mast gallows?). But the transom is still there. Rudder mounts to it, so does the outboard bracket. Cockpit drains mount through it, and the stern ladder's mounted there too.

......OK. I think I see now. After looking at some pictures, comparing the old CP16 to the Legacy there is a significant difference in the size of the transom. I guess since my other boat is a sailing dingy that has no transom at all, the Legacy's transom looks big enough to me.

[Craig Weis]

Yes....Ohhhhhhhhh Like This Dinky?

[Message modify] the 04-December-2009 09:18:47 message was amended to admit to the presences of a transom yesterday to read; "Opps. I was wrong. It has a wee transom." Boy do I feel silly.

I forgot. I even was sitting on the 18 foot Eclipse and a 16 foot Legacy in February's All Sail Boat Show at Navy Pier, Chicago a few years ago while chatting with Rich Hutchins. Even raised and lowered the mast.

My guess is, "if not tripped over, transom not seen." So what dingy do you have, a Hunter Liberty? Snickers all.

skip.

[kahpho]

My guess is, "if not tripped over, transom not seen."
skip.

Hah, lol. Liked that.

My dinghy is an RS Feva. Dumb name I've always thought, fun boat. Likely be selling it next season. Not because I don't like it, it's a real hoot to sail. I'm just trying to consolidate. That means the ComPac stays, the Feva has'ta go.

mel