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| x Dolphin 24 Sailboat |
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The Dolphin 24 Sailboat is a Sparkman & Stephens Design #1497, 24 foot keel/centerboad sloop. Approximately 300 were built between 1960 and 1978 by several builders. This article is based on the www.dolphin24.org website, where a detailed history of...
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| x Crescent Sailboat |
The Crescent Sailboat was built exclusively in Detroit, Michigan from 1953 to 1974. These boats were designed in 1953 by a Ford Motor Company engineer, Dick Hill and friends, who were experimenting with fiberglass. 27 hulls were constructed and...
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| x Valiant 40 sailboat |
The Valiant 40 is an aft cockpit double-ender, or canoe stern, cutter rigged monohull designed by naval architect Robert Perry in 1973(?) near Seattle, Washington, USA. The Valiant 40 design was considered revolutionary at the time it was first...
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| x Snark sailboat |
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The Snark is a lightweight lateen rigged sailboat. The early Snarks had hulls made of expanded polystyrene (EPS is most commonly known by the tradename Styrofoam). Later versions have an EPS hull clad inside and out with a layer of ABS. At fifty...
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| x Shields sailboat |
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In 1963 Cornelius Shields, one of the foremost proponents of one-design sailing in the U.S. conceived of a modern followup to the International One Design. The new boat would have the balance and beauty of the IOD while incorporating modern trends...
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| x International One Design |
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The 'International One Design' (IOD, International) is a class of sail boat developed for yacht racing. It is a 33-foot open cockpit day sailer used for Harbour racing, rather than for overnight, or ocean races, such as the Newport–Bermuda Yacht...
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| x Blue Jay Sailboat |
Blue Jay is a class of sailboat used primarily in the Northeastern United States. It is generally sailed with two people and features a mainsail, a jib, and a spinnaker. It is approximately 14 feet (4.2 m) long, usually the next step in junior...
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| x Squib sailboat |
Designed in 1967 by Oliver Lee as a successor to his Ajax 23, the prototype Squib was built in cold moulded wood and sailed extensively over the winter of 1967-68. After successful proving trials she was used as a plug and the first GRP Squib was...
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| x Cherub Sailing |
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The Cherub is a 2 person 12ft high performance racing skiff with spinnaker and trapeze. Cherubs are very quick craft offering exciting rides particularly downwind with their large asymmetric kites. The majority of Cherub sailors are in their late...
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| x Payne-Mortlock sailing canoe |
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The Payne Mortlock Sailing Canoe is a 5.8m, two person, senior racing dinghy, rigged with a mainsail, jib and spinnaker.
The canoe is especially distinguished by its sleek hull design with a point bow and stern and two sliding planks.
Designed in...
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| x Mirror |
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1962 |
The Mirror is a highly successful pram dinghy, with more than 70,000 built.
The Mirror was named after the Daily Mirror, a UK newspaper with a largely working class readership. The Mirror was from the start promoted as an affordable boat, and it has...
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| x Heron |
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The Heron Dinghy is a dinghy designed by Jack Holt of the United Kingdom as the Yachting World Cartopper (YW Cartopper). The Heron dinghy was designed to be built by a home handyman out of marine ply over a timber frame, but can now also be...
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| x Albacore |
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The Albacore is a 4.57 m (15 ft) planing dinghy developed in 1954 from an Uffa Fox design. Hulls may be made out of either wood or fiberglass.
By 2005 over 8,000 Albacores have been built and the class is actively raced in England, the United States...
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| x Topper |
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The Topper is an 11 foot sailing dinghy designed by Ian Proctor.
The Topper is a one-design boat sailed mostly in the British Isles. It was recognised as an International class by the ISAF but has never become truly international. At the most recent...
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| x GP14 |
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The GP14 is a 4.2m (14 ft) sailing dinghy developed in 1949. Almost 14,000 GP14s have been built and the class is active in the UK, Ireland, Australia, South Africa and Sri Lanka. It is relatively heavy (133 kg) but stable, and an ideal boat to...
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| x Laser |
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The International Laser Class sailboat, also called Laser Standard and the Laser One is a popular one-design class of small sailing dinghy. According the Laser Class Rules the boat may be sailed by either one or two people, though it is rarely...
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| x Streaker |
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A Streaker is a type of sailing dinghy designed in 1975 by Jack Holt. It is a light (minimum weight only 48 kg) one-person boat with a uni-rig stayed sail plan. It is sailed mainly in Britain and the Philippines, and over 1,500 have been built. At...
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| x Finn |
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The Finn dinghy is the men's single-handed, cat-rigged Olympic class for sailing. It was designed by Swedish canoe designer, Rickard Sarby, in 1949 for the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Since the 1952 debut of the boat, the design has been in...
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| x Flying Scot |
The Flying Scot is a day sailer dinghy used for pleasure sailing as well as racing throughout North America. The Flying Scot was designed in 1957 by Gordon K. (Sandy) Douglass who had already designed the Thistle and Highlander dinghies.
The Flying...
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| x National 12 |
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The National 12 is a two-person, two-sail, twelve-foot (3.6 metre) long sailing dinghy. They are sailed extensively in the UK. The National 12 is a development class with a long, famous and intriguing history. The class was started in 1936 by the...
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| x Wayfarer |
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1957 |
The Wayfarer is a wooden or fibreglass hulled Bermuda rigged sailing dinghy, often used for short sailing trips as a 'day boat'. The boat is 15 foot 10 inches (4.82 m) long, and broad and deep enough for three adults to comfortably sail for several...
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The 470 (Four-Seventy) is a double-handed monohull planing dinghy with a centreboard, Bermuda rig, and center sheeting.
The name is the overall length of the boat in centimeters (i.e., the boat is 4.70 meters long). The 470 has been an Olympic class...
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| x Optimist dinghy |
The Optimist is a small, single-handed sailing dinghy intended for use by children up to the age of 15. Nowadays boats are usually made of fiber reinforced plastic, although wooden boats are still built.
It is one of the most popular sailing...
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The Europe is a one-person dinghy designed in Belgium in 1960 by Alois Roland as a class legal Moth dinghy. The design later changed into its own one-design class.
The dinghy is ideal for sailors weighing 50–75 kilos. The hull is made of fibre glass...
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| x Javelin dinghy |
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The Javelin can refer to several different class of boats. The boats are significantly different and only have the same name by coincidence.
The oldest is the 14-foot dinghy designed by Uffa Fox in 1960 and built by the O'Day company until the mid...
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| x El Toro |
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The El Toro is a one-design class of sailing dinghy. The El Toro is quite small—approximately 8 feet (2.44 ) long—and very simple to sail.
The El Toro was designed to serve as both a racing dinghy and a tender for ferrying people and material to and...
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The 49er is a newer one-design class of small sailing dinghy. It is a double handed twin trapeze boat, meaning that it is sailed by a helm and a crew, the helm making many tactical decisions, as well as steering, and the crew doing most of the sail...
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| x Thistle |
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The Thistle is a high performance one-design racing dinghy, also used for day sailing, popular in the United States. The Thistle was designed by Gordon K. (Sandy) Douglass who later designed the Highlander and Flying Scot. (These names commemorate...
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| x Jersey Skiff |
The Jersey Skiff is a beach launched boat first appearing around the end of the 1800s. They were first used as fishing boats, to be launched through the surf, sailed to the fishing grounds and then retrieved through the surf.
There were two distinct...
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| x Sea Bright |
The Sea Bright Skiff is a development of the Jersey Skiff. It was developed on the northern shore of New Jersey to be used for fishing, by being launched through the surf, sailed to the fishing grounds, and returned through the surf.
The boat is...
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| x Laser Radial |
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The Laser Radial is a popular one-design class of small sailing dinghy built by a number of licensed boat builders worldwide. It is a singlehanded boat, meaning that it is sailed by one person. The Laser Radial is a variant of the Laser Standard,...
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| x Laser 4.7 |
The Laser 4.7 is a one-design dinghy class in the Laser series and is a one-design class of sailboat. All Lasers are built to the same specifications. The Laser is 4.06 m (13 ft 10 in) long, with a waterline length of 3.81 m (12 ft 6 in). The hull...
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| x International 420 Class Dinghy |
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The International 420 Class Dinghy is a monohull planing dinghy with centreboard, bermuda rig and centre sheeting. It is designed for a crew of two. The name describes the overall length of the boat in centimeters (the boat is exactly 4.2 meters...
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| x Sunfish |
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The Sunfish dinghy is a popular one-design sailing dinghy which can be sailed with one, two, or three persons, but is most often sailed single-handed (one person). At 13 feet 9 inches (4.2 m) in length and 130 lb (59 kg) in weight, the Sunfish is...
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| x Flying Dutchman |
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The Flying Dutchman (FD) is a 20-foot long high-performance racing dinghy. Developed in the early 50's of the 20th century. She made her Olympic debute at the 1960 Olympics. The FD is still one of the fastest trapeze dinghies in the world . It has...
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| x Contender |
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The International Contender is a single-handed high performance sailing dinghy, designed by Bob Miller, latterly known as Ben Lexcen, (Australia) in 1967 as a possible successor to the Finn dinghy for Olympic competition.
"Single-handed" means...
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| x Musto Performance Skiff |
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The Musto Performance Skiff is a single-handed sailing skiff with a length of 4.55m. It features a trapeze, asymmetrical spinnaker, wings and low weight and achieves speeds of over twenty knots which makes it one of the fastest single-handed sailing...
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| x 505 |
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The International 505 is a one-design high-performance two-person monohull planing centerboard dinghy. Using a trapeze for the crew, it is a physically demanding boat.
The genesis of the class began in 1953 with the creation of the 'Coronet' dinghy...
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| x OK |
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The OK Dinghy is an international class sailing dinghy, designed by Knud Olsen in 1956.
In 1957 Axel Dangaard Olsen of Seattle, U.S.A., asked the Danish yacht designer Knud Olsen to prepare drawings for a light and fast single-handed sailing dinghy...
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| x Byte |
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The Byte is a one man sailing dinghy. It is produced by xtreme Sailing Products of Singapore and PS2000 in North America, and was previously produced by Topper Sailboats in the UK. However, Topper ceased production of GRP boats to concentrate on its...
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| x Puddle Duck Racer |
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A Puddle Duck Racer or PD Racer is an 8 foot (2.44 m) long spec series one design racing sailboat or day sailer. Billed as "the easiest sailboat in the world to build", the scow hull is a simple box, usually built of plywood. A sideview of the hull...
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| x Firefly |
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The Firefly is a two-sail, wooden hull (or more likely, these days, GRP), sailing dinghy with no spinnaker, designed by Uffa Fox in 1938. Although originally designed as a double hander, it was selected as the single handed class for the 1948...
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| x Sabot |
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The Sabot is a sailing dinghy that is sailed and raced singlehandedly usually by young sailors in various places around the world.
It is a hard-chine pram 8 feet (2.44m)in length with a maximum width of 3'11" (1.19m). The Sabot is equipped with a...
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| x Cadet |
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The Cadet is a junior trainer sailing dinghy designed by Jack Holt, in 1947, who was commissioned to design it by the magazine Yachting World. The boat is crewed by two people and sails with a bermuda rigged mainsail, jib and spinnaker. The side...
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| x Laser 2 |
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The Laser 2 is a double-handed version of the popular Laser one-design class of small sailing dinghy. It is a quick, planing dinghy that differs from the laser in that it has a jib, symmetric spinnaker and a trapeze for the crew. It was designed by...
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| x SB3 |
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2002 |
The Laser SB3 is a one-design class of sailboat commonly used for racing. Manufactured by LaserPerformance Ltd (Trading name "LaserPerformance") the boat was designed by Tony Castro and launched in 2002.
The yacht is an open keelboat and is designed...
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| x Buccaneer 18 |
The Buccaneer 18 is a day sailer for pleasure sailing as well as racing; it is sailed throughout North America.
Designed in 1966 by Rod Macalpine-Downie and Dick Gibbs, the Buccaneer 18 incorporates classic elements that have made this racing dinghy...
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| x Laser Pico |
The Laser Pico dinghy is a small sailboat designed by Jo Richards in the mid-1990s and used primarily for training and day sailing. It can be crewed by one or two children or an adult. Current models come equipped with both a mainsail and a jib, but...
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| x Fatty Knees |
The Fatty Knees fibreglass sailing dinghies were designed by Lyle Hess (1912 - 2002). Produced in 7’ (2.1m), 8’ (2.4m) and 9’ (2.7m) long models. The 8’ model has a 4’ (1.2m) beam. Primarily designed as a yacht tender with good rowing and towing...
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| x Manly Junior |
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The Manly Junior is a junior racing dinghy class popular in Sydney Australia. It was designed in 1959 for younger sailors and the length (2.6 m) was originally decided so that the boat could be stored vertically downstairs inside Manly Yacht Club ...
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| x Laser Vortex |
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Designed by Jo Richards and awarded the "Sailboat of the Year" title on its introduction in 2000, the Laser Vortex is a high performance sailing dinghy. It is a tunnel hulled single hander, that has a trapeze and an optional Asymmetric spinnaker....
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| x Fireball |
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Originally designed by Peter Milne in 1962, the Fireball is a one-design high-performance sailing dinghy. The Fireball is sailed by a crew of two, and sports a single trapeze, symmetric spinnaker and chined hull. The class is strictly controlled,...
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| x Snipe |
The Snipe is a 15+⁄2 foot, 2 person, one design racing dinghy. Designed by William Crosby in 1931, it has evolved into a modern, tactical racing dinghy with fleets around the world. The Snipe is simple and small, making it easy to sail and trailer....
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| x Laser 4000 |
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The Laser 4000 (aka 4K, 4-tonner) is a well known racing dinghy crewed by two persons. Its one-design weight-equalised system enables physically differing sailors to compete on a level playing field. It is most popular in Europe, particularly the UK...
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| x Australian Sharpie |
The Australian Sharpie is a 3-person sailing dinghy which has evolved from the 12-square-metre class sailed in the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. Australian Sharpies are 19 feet, 11+⁄4 inches long, with a planing hull and a single mast....
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| x Spiral |
The Spiral is a type or class of sailing dinghy.
It is similar to a Laser (dinghy), but smaller and easier to manoeuvre on land and in the water, and suited to a skipper of smaller body weight and less athleticism than is a Laser.
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| x Wanderer |
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The Wanderer is a 14 foot Fiberglass hull Bermuda rigged sailing dinghy designed by Ian Proctor. One of the main objectives of the design was to produce a robust safe and versatile dinghy that could be used for knockabout day sailing and cruising as...
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| x Tasar |
The Tasar is a 14-foot (4.3 m) fibreglass 2 person sailing dinghy with a mainsail and jib. Designed by Frank Bethwaite of Sydney in 1975, the boat is technologically advanced. Aimed at a husband and wife/parent and child crew, it is designed for a...
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The 29er is a high performance skiff designed by Julian Bethwaite and first produced in 1998. It is targeted at youth, especially those training to sail the larger 49er. It has a single trapeze and an asymmetric spinnaker much like that of the 49er ...
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| x Sabre |
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The Sabre is a class of twelve-foot-long (3.7 m) single-handed sailboat. The boat was designed in 1974 by Rex Fettell, who also designed the Minnow. As of September 2006 approximately 1,720 sail numbers have been issued.
The boat is built in plywood...
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