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The Lightning World Championship is a bi-annual international sailing regatta for lightning (dinghy), organized by the host club on behalf of the International Lightning Class Association and recognized by World Sailing, the sport's IOC-recognized governing body. The class gained class status in November 1962 from World Sailing, so its first ...
The Lightning Youth World Championship is an bi-annual international sailing regatta for lightning (dinghy), organized by the host club on behalf of the International Lightning Class Association and recognized by World Sailing, the sports IOC recognized governing body.
The Lightning is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by Olin Stephens of Sparkman & Stephens, as a one-design racer and first built in 1938. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] An accepted World Sailing class, the boat is one of the most popular one-design sailing classes in the United States and is also raced in several other countries.
This year's race follows the original course created in 1925. This year's race follows the original course created in 1925. Skip to main content. Subscriptions; Animals. Business. Entertainment ...
ISAF Open Match Racing World Championship (Presently awarded to the overall winner of the World Match Racing Tour originally a world sailing event) Nations Cup; Offshore Racing Congress Rating System Currently ORCi; former ORC Worlds include the IMS, IMS 500, IMS 670, 1/4 TON, 1/2 TON and 1 TON ClassWorld Championships
This is a list of sail codes for sailing yachts and the old codes, used until 2000 by the International Sailing Federation. Mainsail Country Codes must comply with World Sailing Racing Rules of Sailing. ISAF Rules of Sailing Appendix G1.2 specifies that national letters shall be clearly legible and of the same color. [1]
Here's where you can see boats before they take off for the 100th Port Huron-to-Mackinac Island Sailboat Race. Gannett. McKenna Golat, Port Huron Times Herald. July 17, 2024 at 12:45 PM.
The first round-the-world yacht race was the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race of 1968–1969, which was also a single-handed race with the only winner, Robin Knox-Johnston on Suhaili; this inspired the present-day Velux 5 Oceans Race (formerly the BOC Challenge / Around Alone) and the Vendée Globe. Single-handed racing has seen a great boom in ...