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They co-sponsored ASA's Docking Made Easy video series and other projects through the years. Beneteau Yachts joined forces in 2010 with ASA in creating a small keelboat specifically designed for teaching. The ASA 22 is the product of Beneteau design and engineering combined with American Sailing's deep knowledge of efficient and safe teaching.
The following is a partial list of sailboat types and sailing classes, including keelboats, dinghies, and multihull (catamarans and trimarans). Olympic classes [ edit ]
Loch Long Sailing Club: at Aldeburgh Yacht Club and Cove Sailing Club [66] 1938: Neptunkryssare: 9 m (30 ft) Lage Eklund: Sweden [67] 1939: Dublin Bay 24: 11.51 m (37 ft 9 in) Alfred Mylne: Isle of Bute: Royal Alfred Yacht Club: Villefranche-sur-Mer [68] 'Design Mid Thirties; first delivered 1946' 1942: Nordic Folkboat: 7.62 m (25 ft 0 in) [29 ...
Sailing vessels are unable to sail higher than a certain angle towards the wind, so "beating to windward" in a zig-zag fashion with a series of tacking maneuvers, allows a vessel to sail towards a destination that is closer to the wind than the vessel can sail directly. A sailing craft, whose course is downwind, jibes (or "wears" if square ...
International Yacht Training Worldwide (IYT Worldwide) is an independent sailing and boating training organization which provides education and training standards for professional and recreational boaters and yachtsmen and women. It was originally based entirely in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA; it is now a British Columbia, Canada Corporation ...
US Sailing is responsible for selection and training of the US Sailing Team representing the United States in the Olympic Games. Sailors who eventually compete in the Olympics are coming from a well developed racing community in the U.S. Sailboat racing can be found in colleges and universities, [4] [5] yacht clubs, sailing clubs and sailing ...
The handicap is applied to the time taken to sail any course, and the handicaps can be used with widely differing types of sailboats. Portsmouth Numbers are updated with data from race results, normally annually. The various schemes are not directly linked, and ratings for the same class can and often do vary in the different schemes.
The C&C 101 is a small recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass. It has a fractional sloop, an internally-mounted spade-type rudder and a fixed fin keel. It displaces 8,100 lb (3,674 kg) and carries 3,351 lb (1,520 kg) of lead ballast. [1] [3] The boat has a draft of 6.50 ft (1.98 m) with the standard keel fitted. [1] [3]