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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.
An E-Scow A Laser. The Wawasee Yacht Club was formed in 1935 and is located at 6338 E Trusdell Ave. on the northeast shore of Lake Wawasee, Indiana.It currently has 75 families and 35 social members sailing 28-foot E-Scow, 19-foot Lightning, and 13-foot Sunfish class boats in three regattas held from June through early October.
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S2 also hired the firm of Graham & Schlageter to design the popular S2 7.9 one-design racer and many of the company's later, more racing-oriented boats for production, including the S2 6.9, S2 9.1, S2 10.3, S2 22 and the S2 35. [6] [7] S2 Yachts started building power boats once the clause had expired in the late 1970s, as the Tiara Yachts line ...
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Vanguard Sailboats was founded in 1967 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA by Peter and Olaf Harken. The brothers started to gain attention after their sailing hardware was used on boats that won Olympic gold in 1968 , and after Vanguard supplied the Finn class for several countries in the 1976 Olympics .
Bruce Goldsmith (March 21, 1936 – June 3, 2007) [1] was a sailor from Michigan. He won twice the Worlds in the Lightning class, [2] [3] was many times North American Champion in several classes as well as gold medalist in the 1967 [4] and 1975 Pan American Games. He died in 2007 at the age of 71 while racing during a storm on Lake Erie. [5] [1]
The boat is a World Sailing recognized international class. [5] Sailboatdata.com summarizes the design as "one of the most popular sailing dinghies ever. (In its heyday, the largest sailboat racing class). Origins in the US. Built, sailed and raced around the world to this day." [1]