Photographs of 1950s & 60s Cherubs

	This is Uk Cherub No 4, Sundance, built by George Dexter in Cowes in 1956. The photos were taken during the winter of 1957 off Cowes. The boat was the only one of the first few not to be named after some kind of alocholic drink!
(photo - George Dexter's Archives)
	George Dexter in dark clothing, Bob Casson in light. Bob Casson was to become a significant builder and designer of Cherubs (and I believe other classes) in the 1960s.
(photo - George Dexter's Archives)
	Controversially (so what's new!) George interpreted the one design rules then in force to let him build the boat with no gunwale fwd of the mast, and max width gunwales aft of it for extra sitting out power. The stem was sharp rather than the normal blunt stem.
(photo - George Dexter's Archives)
	No trapeze, no kite. ( not allowed in the rules then ), and some of the last cotton Ratsey sails.
(photo - George Dexter's Archives)
	"Vodka" & "Whisky" - again taken before spinnakers and trapezes were used in the UK.
(photo - Paul Dimmer's Archives)
	More racing in the very early 60s. The mix of Cotton and terylene sails and lack of spinnakers probably puts this at 1960/1961.
(photo - Gower Lloyd's Archives)
	1959 National Champion Pink Champagne (Alfie Hawksworth). This is a Spencer 2.
(photo - M. Sargent)
	UK Cherub No 1 at at Folly regatta in (probably) 1962. Martin Joliffe comments:"The efficiency of the rig leaves much to be desired! The mainsail twist is due to the mast being deck stepped, and the kicking strap led to the base of the mast. Due to having a dagger board it could not be led any lower because of fouling the former."
(photo - Martin Jolliffe's Archives)
	"Also our inability to raise the dagger board adequately when gybing, or to move the centre of lateral resistance aft, contributed to my boats instability downwind in strong winds."
(photo - Martin Jolliffe's Archives)
	This picture was extracted from a price list from W. McCutcheon of Cowes, the first builders of Cherubs in the UK. The date must be around 1963 or 64. Trapezing techniques would appear to have been in their infancy! A ready to sail Cherub would have set you back £196 19s 9d
(photo - Beken of Cowes)
	Well known Cherub & Moth Designer Andy Paterson's first Cherub is carrying a UK number from before the International numbers were adopted. Taken in 1974, this picture shows a contemporary main and jib, but the spinnaker and hull are much older.
(photo - Bloodaxe Archives)
	The same boat again.
(photo - Bloodaxe Archives)
	Keith Godwin's DOB was a very well known boat of the time, winning at least the 1968 Nationals. This photo seemed to get reproduced everywhere - the sails were bright red and white which made for a spectacular shot. The current enthusiasm for bright paint schemes is nothing new!
Photo: Cherub Association
	The Greg 7 was arguably the last UK design before we started being influenced by the Kiwi and Aussie "flatties". The Jennifer Julian below is a contemporary Antipodean design and looks years more modern.
Photo: Cherub Association
	There's absolutely nothing new about having distinctive patterns and colours oin Cherubs!
Photo: Nick Leaver's Archives
	A club race back in the 60s feauturing wire luff kites.
Photo: Ian Duke's Archives
	Preparing for a Race at the 1969 National Championships
(photo - Gower Lloyd's Archives)

Copyright

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Contributions

More contributions for this page would be welcome. We do need to have the copyright and credits sorted out though, so I'll need to know who the photographer is, and if its a pro photographer, they need to have given permission.

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