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| x 1973-74 Whitbread Round the World Race |
The first race started off from Portsmouth, England on September 8, 1973. Seventeen yachts of various sizes and shapes took part. During the race three sailors were swept over board and died: Paul Waterhouse, Dominique Guillet and Bernie Hosking....
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| x 1977-78 Whitbread Round the World Race |
On August 27, 1977, 15 boats started out from Southampton under gale force winds and driving rain.
Final Standings:
Flieer a Sparkman & Stephens designed yacht skippered by Cornelius van Rietschoten won the race. All 15 boats finished the 26,780...
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| x 1981-82 Whitbread Round the World Race |
On August 8, 1981, 29 boats started out from Southampton.
Final Standings:
Flyer, a German Frers designed maxi skippered by Cornelius van Rietschoten (a.k.a Conny van Rietschoten), winner of the 1977 to 1978 race, won the race. Unusually, Flyer won...
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| x America's Cup |
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The America’s Cup is the most prestigious regatta and match race in the sport of sailing, and the oldest active trophy in international sport, predating the Modern Olympics by 45 years. The sport attracts top sailors and yacht designers because of...
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| x Figawi |
The Figawi or Figawi Race Weekend is an annual sailing race from Hyannis, MA to Nantucket on the Memorial Day weekend. It is a relatively prominent race and attracts boats from all around New England, not just Cape Cod. While it is a race, its...
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| x Volvo Ocean Race |
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The Volvo Ocean Race (formerly the Whitbread Round the World Race) is a yacht race around the world, held every three years. It is named after its current sponsor, Volvo.
Though the route is changed to accommodate various ports of call, the race...
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| x 2001-02 Volvo Ocean Race |
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For the 2001 to 2002 race the sponsorship of the race was taken over by Volvo and Volvo Cars. The race was renamed the Volvo Ocean Race. Stopovers were added in Germany, France, and Sweden being the Volvo's three biggest car markets in Europe. In...
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| x 2005-06 Volvo Ocean Race |
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The 2005-06 Volvo Ocean Race was held between 2005-11-05 and 2006-06-17. Seven boats took part in the race and made ten stops in nine countries.
The 2006-2006 race was the first to not begin in the United Kingdom. The course of 31,000 nautical miles...
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| x 2008-09 Volvo Ocean Race |
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The 2008–09 Volvo Ocean Race was a yacht race held between October 4, 2008, and June 27, 2009—the 10th edition of the round the world Volvo Ocean Race.
The eight participating boats made ten stops in nine countries around the world. The first...
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| x 1985-86 Whitbread Round the World Race |
On September 28, 1985, 15 boats started out from Southampton.
Final Standings:
L'Esprit d'Equipe skippered by Lionel Péan won the race in a corrected time of 111 days 23 hours. Phillips Innovator was second, and Fazer Finland third. (UBS Switzerland...
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| x 1997-98 Whitbread Round the World Race |
Race run for the first time with all W60 boats and to a "points vs time" (instead of aggregate leg time) scoring system to enhance the value of the shorter race legs. Also, in an effort to attract additional media coverage, the Whitbread race...
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| x 1989-90 Whitbread Round the World Race |
Final standings:
The race was run with several classes (for size of boat). This race featured the first all-woman crew on Tracy Edwards' Maiden. Although in a much smaller boat than many of their male counterparts the ladies fared well—claiming two...
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| x 1993-94 Whitbread Round the World Race |
The 1993 to 1994 Whitbread was run to "mixed class" rules (as with prior races). New for the 93/4 race was a purpose built Whitbread boat—the W60. As with previous years a handicap was applied to different boats based on their race rating. The...
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| x Transat Jacques Vabre |
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The Transat Jacques Vabre is a yachting race that follows the historic coffee trading route between France and Brazil.
The course was drawn up back in 1993 to follow in the wake of the clippers transporting coffee from Brazil to France. The Transat...
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| x Hamilton Island Race Week |
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Set against the backdrop of the Whitsunday Islands, on Queensland's Great Barrier Reef - Hamilton Island Race Week has evolved to become Australia's premier keelboat regatta.
Race Week was conceived by David Hutchen in 1983, after he had moved to...
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| x Long Beach Race Week |
Long Beach Race Week (LBRW) is an annual sailing regatta for keelboats and ocean racing catamarans conducted annually at the end of June. Organized by Alamitos Bay Yacht Club and Long Beach Yacht Club Racing it is organized on multiple courses in...
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| x The Tall Ships' Races |
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The Tall Ships' Races are races for sail training "tall ships" (sailing ships). The races are designed to encourage international friendship and training for young people in the art of sailing. The races are held annually in European waters and...
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| x Bermuda Race |
The Bermuda Race, or Newport Bermuda Race, is a biennial yacht race from Newport, Rhode Island to the island of Bermuda, a distance of 635 nautical miles (1175 km) across open ocean. The first Bermuda Race started in 1906 from Gravesend Bay, N.Y....
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| x Marblehead to Halifax Ocean Race |
The Marblehead to Halifax Ocean Race (MHOR) is a biennial sailing race which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2005. It runs between Marblehead, Massachusetts and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The race began in 1905 as an informal competition among...
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| x Portimão Global Ocean Race |
The Portimão Global Ocean Race (PGOR) is a yachting race which was held in 2008/2009 for the first time.
The race was created for single- and doublehanded yachts (Category "Singlehand/Class 40" and “Doublehanded/Class 40") and small budgets. The two...
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| x Mini Transat 6.50 |
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Mini Transat 6.50 also known as Transat 650 is a solo transatlantic yacht race. The length of the yachts are limited to 6.50 metres.
An Englishman Bob Salmon, from Plymouth, originally came up with the idea of the mini transatlantic race in the late...
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| x Mirror |
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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 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 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 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 Europe |
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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 49er |
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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| x International 14 |
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The International 14 is 14-foot double-handed racing dinghy. The class originated in England in the early part of the 20th century. It is sailed and raced in many countries around the world and was one of the very first true international racing...
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| x Merlin Rocket |
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The Merlin Rocket is a 14 foot dinghy sailed in the United Kingdom. It is an active class, now with over 3700 boats built. The boat designed around a box rule, meaning that all class boats need to be a certain length and width, but can be any shape....
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| x Moth |
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The Moth Class is the name for a small development class sailing dinghy. There are three "species" of moths currently in existence: the International Moth, a fast sailing hydrofoil dinghy with liberal restrictions; the Classic Moth, a traditional...
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The Cherub is a small, high performance, two-man planing dinghy first designed in 1951 in New Zealand by John Spencer (d 1994). The class is a development (or "box rule") class, allowing for significant variation in design between different boats...
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| x Minto Sailing Dinghy |
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The Minto Sailing Dinghy is a sailing dinghy first produced commercially in the early 1960 and still in production.
The Minto Sailing Dinghy began its life as a skiff for a 24 foot sloop built by Hugh Rodd at Canoe Cove on Vancouver Island. The...
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| x Pirate |
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A Pirate is a type of German sailing dinghy. It was first constructed in 1935, and has no trapeze. The Pirate was designed in 1934 by the German boat builder Carl Martens. The boat was originally manufactured in solid wood, although since the 1960s...
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| x Pacer |
The Pacer class of sailing dinghy, formerly known as the Puffin Pacer, was designed in the UK by Jack Holt. It was commissioned by Puffin Paints and Glues, to be designed as yacht for use by families. It has since become a popular learning and...
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| x Laser 3000 |
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The Laser 3000 is a racing sailing dinghy crewed by two persons with a trapeze for the crew. Launched in 1996, the 3000 was developed from the Laser 2, using the original Frank Bethwaite-designed planing hull combined with a brand new self-draining...
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The 3000 is a racing sailing dinghy crewed by two persons with a trapeze for the crew. Launched in 1996 as the Laser 3000, the 3000 was developed from the Laser 2, using the original Frank Bethwaite-designed planing hull combined with a brand new...
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| x Jacksnipe |
The Jacksnipe is a two-man racing sailing dinghy with a single trapeze for the crew and symmetrical spinnaker.
In the late 1960's, Jack Holt was asked by Peter Harris of the British Snipe Class Association to design an up-to-the-minute boat with a...
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| x Bermuda Fitted Dinghy |
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The 'Bermuda Fitted Dinghy' is a type of racing-dedicated sail boat used for competitions between the yacht clubs of Bermuda. Although the class has only existed for about 130 years, the boats are a continuance of a tradition of boat and ship design...
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| x Pegasus Dinghy |
The Pegasus, is a powerful and fast two person racing and cruising dinghy designed by Uffa Fox in 1958. It was notable for being a boat capable of being built at home using marine ply but still with an efficient and aesthetically pleasing round...
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| x Laser 2000 |
'Wherever you sit in a Laser 2000 you are always comfy!' Laser 2000 owner Katie Burridge
The Laser 2000 was commissioned by Performance Sailcraft and designed by Phil Morrison in 1997 and launched in 1998. The design was informed by Morrison's...
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| x Laser Vago |
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A Laser Vago is a high-performance sailing dinghy designed by Jo Richards. The Vago is normally sailed by a crew of two but can also be sailed single-handed. It sports a single trapeze, asymmetric gennaker, furling jib and reefable mainsail. The...
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| x Mirror 16 |
The Mirror 16 is a class of sailing dinghy which was sponsored by the Daily Mirror newspaper in 1963 and the design project was headed by Jack Holt. Its design was based upon the easy to construct "stich and glue" principle introduced by Barry...
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| x Mermaid Sailing Dinghy |
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The Do-it-yourself Mermaid is an 11 foot plywood sailing dinghy designed by Roger Hancock in 1962. Usually built at home, it is suitable for a crew of two or three. It can be sailed, rowed or motored and can be trailed or car-topped. The boat is...
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| x Salcombe Yawl |
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The Salcombe Yawl is a small sailing dinghy restricted class native to Salcombe in South Devon. It is about the size of a Merlin Rocket, that is 4.88 metres (16.0 ft) and about 180 have been built of which 80% are still in use. It is build...
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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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