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The International 2.4mR Class rule is closely related to the International 12mR class rule that was used at the America's Cup. While there is a small but active group of amateur or professional designers and builders around the world, around 90% of the 2.4mR boats are the commercially produced Norlin Mark III designed by Swedish yacht designer ...
The 2.4 Metre World Championship is an annual international sailing regatta of 2.4 Metre keelboats, organized by the host club on behalf of the International 2.4mR Class Association and recognized by World Sailing, the sports IOC recognized governing body.
International 14 Team Racing Worlds (Inter Country Team Racing) World Sailing Classes – Fleet Racing ... Yachts: Class 40: Class 40 World Championships: Fleet:
What was needed was a common rating or an agreed International rule, which would enable yachts from one country to race competitively in a different country. The leading yacht racing countries came together and laid down a system that calculated the rating of yachts, measurement rules, construction regulations (scantlings) and rules for racing.
Four classes of radio sailing boat are designated as IRSA classes, as follows from the smallest to largest: International One Metre; The IOM class rules specify a monohull of maximum length 1000 mm, with maximum draught 420 mm. There is a minimum weight of 4000 g, which makes homebuilding of competitive boats possible.
The Sydney 40 was chosen from the design board by the Royal Ocean Racing Club to become the new One Design class for the Admiral's Cup. The class never really took off for a variety of reasons this led to the failure of the management company Race 1. The boat had a highly tunable rig and was hard to sail well rewarding the most experience crews.
Other sailors saw the resulting boat, and how fast it sailed compared to the heavy displacement boats common on the Great Lakes at the time and asked Hinterhoeller to build similar boats for them. Hinterhoeller modified the design, stretching it out to 24 ft (7.3 m) and started production of what he then called the Shark .
In a 2018 article, Scuttlebutt Sailing News noted, "considered a lovely boat to sail, this state-of-the-art offshore one design quickly became an international attraction." [12] In a 2021 article in Yachting World yacht designer Mark Mills named the design his choice for the "world's coolest yacht". He wrote "the Mumm 30 for me is the most ...