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The Sonata 8 is a small recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim.It has a fractional sloop rig, a transom-hung rudder and a lifting or optionally fixed fin keel.
The Naples Sabot is an 8-foot (2.4 m) sailing dinghy. [1] The Naples Sabot was designed by Roy McCullough and R.A. Violette and the first two were built in Violette's garage during WW II, [2] although official designs were not made available until 1946.
The Sabot is a sailing dinghy that is sailed and raced singlehandedly usually by young sailors in various parts of the world.. Sabots returning to the clubhouse after a race
The Sailfish sailboat is a small, hollow body, board-boat style sailing dinghy. The design is a shallow draft , sit-upon hull carrying a lateen rigged sail mounted to an un- stayed mast . This style sailboat is sometimes referred to as a "wet boat" because, with its minimal freeboard , the sailor often gets splashed by spray as the boat moves ...
The design goals for the boat were low cost and good seaworthiness. [4]The Balboa 20 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim.It has a fractional sloop rig, a spooned raked stem, an angled transom, with a lazarette, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a lifting keel.
The Snipe is a racing sailboat, with early examples built with wooden hulls and more recent ones with hulls made from fiberglass. It has a fractional sloop rig, a spooned raked stem, an angled transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller with an extension and a retractable daggerboard. It displaces 380 lb (172 kg). [1] [2]
Each season brought more options and larger boats to the common man, almost analogous to the rapid expansion of the personal computer in the 1990s. Soon a middle-class family could add a 30-foot sailboat to their Plymouth and hamburger budget.
Sunfish sailors who are more serious about sailing competitions, but who do not have the advantage of a nearby Sunfish fleet, can race their boat against nearly any other make and model of sailboat in "open class" events using a handicap system. Sunfish have a base-line Portsmouth handicap of 99.6. [26]