AMF Apollo 16
{{short description|Sailboat class}}
{{About|the sailboat design|the moon mission|Apollo 16}}
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|name = Apollo 16
|class_image = File:AMF Apollo 16 sail badge.png
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|designer = Bruce Kirby
|location = United States
|year = 1977
|no built = 1,100
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|builder = American Machine and Foundry
|role = One-design racer
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|crew = two or three
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|draft = {{convert|2.60|ft|m|abbr=on}} with the centerboard down
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|displacement = {{convert|300|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}}
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|hull type = Monohull
|construction = Fiberglass
|loa = {{convert|15.75|ft|m|abbr=on}}
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|beam = {{convert|5.92|ft|m|abbr=on}}
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|keel type = centerboard
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|rudder type = transom-mounted rudder
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|rig type = Bermuda rig
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|sailplan = Fractional rigged sloop
|sailarea main = {{convert|90|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}
|sailarea headsail= {{convert|39|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}
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|sailarea total = {{convert|129|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}
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|d-pn = 92.5
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The AMF Apollo 16 is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by Canadian Bruce Kirby as a one-design racer and first built in 1977.{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/apollo-16|title= Apollo 16 sailboat|access-date= 25 August 2020|last= McArthur|first= Bruce|work= sailboatdata.com|year= 2020|archive-url= https://archive.today/20200825135908/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/apollo-16|archive-date= 25 August 2020|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/designer/kirby-bruce|title= Bruce Kirby|access-date= 25 August 2020|last= McArthur|first= Bruce|work= sailboatdata.com|year= 2020|archive-url= https://archive.today/20200825141144/https://sailboatdata.com/designer/kirby-bruce|archive-date= 25 August 2020|url-status= live}}Sherwood, Richard M.: A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition, pages 60-61. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. {{ISBN|0-395-65239-1}}
Production
The design was built by the Alcort division of American Machine and Foundry in the United States, starting in 1977. Alcort had been an independent company, but was bought out by AMF in 1969. A total of 1,100 Apollo 16s were built, but it is now out of production.{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/builder/amf-corp|title= AMF Corp.|access-date= 25 August 2020|last= McArthur|first= Bruce|work= sailboatdata.com|year= 2020|archive-url= https://archive.today/20200706222448/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/amf-corp|archive-date= 6 July 2020|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/builder/alcort-usa|title= Alcort (USA) 1953 - 1982|access-date= 25 August 2020|last= McArthur|first= Bruce|work= sailboatdata.com|year= 2020|archive-url= https://archive.today/20200706222444/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/alcort-usa|archive-date= 6 July 2020|url-status= live}}
Design
The Apollo 16 is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass. It has a fractional sloop rig with aluminum spars. The hull features a raked stem, a vertical transom, a transom-hung, kick-up rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable, kick-up centerboard. It displaces {{convert|300|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}}.
The boat has a draft of {{convert|2.60|ft|m|abbr=on}} with the centerboard extended and {{convert|6|in|cm|abbr=on}} with it retracted, allowing beaching or ground transportation on a trailer. It has a hinged mast step to facilitate lowering the mast.
For sailing the design is equipped with internal halyards, an outhaul, boom vang and Cunningham. The mainsheet is controlled from the end of the boom and includes a full-beam mainsheet traveler. Both the mainsail and jib have built-in leech lines. Unusually the jib does not mount to the forestay, but is tensioned by its halyard. The boat is equipped with a stowage bin, hiking straps, plus dual Elystrom vacuum bailers. Factory options included a spinnaker, whisker pole and mainsail jiffy reefing.
The design has a Portsmouth Yardstick racing average handicap of 92.5 and is normally raced with a crew of two or three sailors.
Operational history
See also
References
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External links
{{Commons category}}
- [https://www.shortypen.com/?boat=290&d=AMF-Apollo-16 Apollo 16 photos]
{{American Machine and Foundry sailboats}}
{{Sailing dinghies and skiffs}}
Category:1970s sailboat type designs
Category:Sailboat type designs by Bruce Kirby
Category:Sailboat types built by American Machine and Foundry