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A johnboat in Florida, 1972 A small modern johnboat in the bed of a pickup truck. A johnboat [1] is a flat-bottomed boat [2] constructed of aluminum, fiberglass, wood, or polyethelene with one, two, or three seats, usually bench type.
The large fleet of similar boats coupled with the Mirror's stability and relative complexity (for a boat of this size) make it the ideal boat to learn racing skills. It is a recommended UK Olympic pathway boat and many top sailors learned their trade in Mirrors. Mirrors are raced competitively worldwide.
The Twelve Foot Dinghy was designed by George Cockshott, an amateur boat designer from Southport, England in response to a 1912 design contest. [1] It became the first one-design racing dinghy to achieve international recognition.
The National 12 is a development class where within a set of rules (and with occasional considered changes to those rules) the boats have been able to evolve over time, moving from wood and clinker construction to high-performance glass and carbon fibre-foam composite boats. There have been over two hundred different designs since the class ...
The cockpit is 12 ft (3.7 m) long and the hull has a sealed buoyancy compartment on the bow. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 5 ] [ 11 ] The boat has a draft of 4.90 ft (1.49 m) with the standard keel.
The width of the boat (the beam) is ideally a bit more than 1/2 the hull length, i.e. the 20-foot (6.1 m) Supercat had a 12-foot (3.7 m) beam and is one of the very highest performing catamarans, however a 12 foot wide boat needs to be completely disassembled for transport by trailer on public roads, that greatly limited sales and popularity of ...
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The boat has a draft of 3.50 ft (1.07 m) with the centerboard extended and 0.42 ft (0.13 m) with it retracted, allowing beaching or ground transportation on a trailer or car roof rack. [ 1 ] The boat may be fitted with a small outboard motor of up to 4 hp (3 kW) for docking and maneuvering.