CP 19 with Centerboard Performance

[grasshopper]

How well does the CP 19 with a centerboard perform compared to one without - especially going to windward?   Has anyone sailed on one or owned one?   I'd appreciate any info you could give me.

Thanks!
grasshopper

[Craig Weis]

Hey Grasshopper,
All of our CP-19's have a fixed keel without any centerboard...I think.
So they all proform about the same as every other one.

Now a CP-16 came out during it's death march with a centerboard in it's fixed keel.

Works better. Skip.

[mgoller]

Hey Grasshopper,
Have you found a CP-19(CB)?  If so it's an unsual boat.  Here's what Hutchins has to say.  It is excerpted from their Company Profile on their website:

"The Com-Pac 19 may be special ordered with a centerboard as well. According to Gerry, incorporating the centerboard design came about as a result of constructive criticism over the years that the boats needed a little more lateral plane. Explaining the thinking that went into the original shoal draft design of the Com-Pac 16, Gerry told me, "At that time that it didn't matter. We admitted it was a compromise boat. You put it on a trailer, and it was simple. There was no maintenance, no moving parts, and it fit in the garage. It was everything a lot of people wanted, and they were selling terrifically.   We told them how best to sail it under its particular constraints. This meant cracking it off a little, not pinching it too close to the wind, but letting it breathe a bit." Gerry admits that sales of the Com-Pac 16 have declined over the years. "Right now we keep that boat on primarily for nostalgia reasons. It was our first and the model we built the most of."

These quotes must have come in the late 90's when the 16's sales had slowed.

My guess from reading this is there was an improvement in pointing or otherwise they wouldn't have called the lack of one a compromise.