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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.
Uffa Fox started building 14s in 1923, and was designing them by 1925. He was to transform the class with the introduction of his first planing hull design, Avenger, in 1927. The construction and finish of his 14s was considered by many to be the ultimate in quality and craftsmanship, and Thunder and Lightning built in 1938 was no exception.
The philosophy is to have a dynamic system of handicapping which looks to the performance of a boat model over time but allows for adjustment to an individual boat based on options and/or modifications. What we consider long lean classic proportions of the boats of the early 1900s were at the time design exercises to manipulate the racing rules.
The Hunter Passage 42 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass.It has a B&R masthead sloop rig, a center cockpit, a raked stem, a walk-through reverse transom with a swimming platform and folding ladder, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed wing keel.
This centerboard sailing dinghy model displaces 1,030 lb (467 kg) and carries no ballast. The rudder is a "kick-up" design. The boat has a draft of 4.92 ft (1.50 m) with the centerboard down and 10 in (25 cm) with it retracted. The boat has a Portsmouth DP-N racing average handicap of 97.4. [2]
The boat has been an Olympic class since it was selected by the International Sailing Federation to be the men's high performance double handed dinghy Sydney Summer Games of 2000. Its derivative featuring a re-designed rig, the 49er FX, was selected by World Sailing to be the women's high performance double-hander at the Rio Summer Olympics of ...
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The Sun Odyssey 44 DS (Deck Salon) is a French sailboat with a hull that was designed by Philippe Briand, deck and interior by Franck Darnet, Flahault Design and the Jeanneau Design Office. It was designed as a cruiser and first built in 2011.