The CL 16 is a British designed 16' sailboat

Sailboat

A sailboat or sailing boat is a boat propelled partly or entirely by sails. The term covers a variety of boats, larger than small vessels such as sailboards and smaller than sailing ships, but distinctions in the size are not strictly defined and what constitutes a sailing ship, sailboat, or a...

 first built in the 1950s. It is essentially the same design as the Wayfarer

Wayfarer

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 dinghy, with the addition of a double-hull. It continues to be produced by a Canadian company (C&L Boatworks) near Fort Erie

Fort Erie

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, on Lake Ontario

Ontario

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The CL 16 is an open cockpit boat that is extremely seaworthy and unsinkable due to a double hull design. CL16's and their Wayfarer cousins have circumnavigated the Great Lakes, and have crossed the North Sea. They can be easily modified to run a spinnaker and/or trapeze. The CL 14 represents a smaller version of this stable craft.