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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 .
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The following is a partial list of Snipe fleets. Fleets are the basic organizational structure of the Snipe class, [1] a 2-person, one design racing dinghy governed by the Snipe Class International Racing Association (SCIRA), and recognized by the World Sailing as an International Class. The Association consists of sailors organized into Fleets ...
The Force 5 was designed in 1972 by Fred Scott and Jack Evans who were well known for their boat designs. AMF Alcort manufactured the boats in increasing quantities and by the late 1970s the boat and class was highly popular. [ 2 ]
The Snipe having failed to be selected for Olympic Games, it was hoped that a modern, high-performance boat might succeed. [ 1 ] At the time, scows were very much the thing, especially the Fireball , and so Holt drew up a flat-bottomed planing design, considerably lighter than the International Snipe, with a pivoting centreboard and a bold new ...
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The 470 (Four-Seventy) is a double-handed monohull planing dinghy with a centreboard, Bermuda rig, and centre sheeting.Equipped with a spinnaker, trapeze and a large sail-area-to-weight ratio, it is designed to plane easily, and good teamwork is necessary to sail it well.