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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.
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 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 ...
In 2000, the Swedish Match Tour (formerly known as the Swedish Match Grand Prix Sailing) was awarded Special Event status by the International Sailing Federation. Bertrand Pacé was the winner of the tour. In 2005, the first Asian event in the match racing circuit – Monsoon Cup – was added and marked the 50th event on the Swedish Match Tour ...
A match race is a race between two competitors, going head-to-head.. In sailboat racing it is differentiated from a fleet race, which almost always involves three or more competitors competing against each other, and team racing where teams consisting of 2, 3 or 4 boats compete together in a team race, with their results being combined.
Started as an ocean racing class for boats too small for the existing off-shore racing classes, the MORC-class boats were initially 24 ft (7.3 m) or less in length, although this was expanded in 1958 to just under 30 ft (9.1 m) and in 1978 to 34 ft (10.4 m). [1] [4] In 1978 MORC moved to include one-design racing. The rule changes allowed ...
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 ...
USA 71, trial boat for the 2003 America’s Cup. USA 76, race boat for the 2003 America’s Cup. USA 87, used in preparations for the 2007 Louis Vuitton Cup. USA 98, raced in the Louis Vuitton Cup 2007 campaign. USA 17, trimaran. Sailing with a rigid wing sail, she won the 2010 America's Cup, in a Deed of Gift match against SNG/Alinghi Valencia.