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To keep it up to date, the class association has allowed modifications to the design over the years, including the addition of self-bailers, a full width mainsheet traveler, windows in the mainsail and jib for visibility and buoyancy tanks to make the boat unsinkable. [2] The boat has a boom vang and adjustable backstays. It has two different ...
Rhodes' design lost to a boat by Olin Stephens of Sparkman & Stephens and as a result Rhodes shelved the plans until 1938 when some Potomac River sailors were looking for a new frostbite racing boat. They home-built 12 boats and racing was started on winter weekends. Yachting magazine covered a race series and advertised where plans could be ...
The Thunderbird class sailboat was designed in 1958 by Seattle Washington naval architect Ben Seaborn, [1] in response to a request from the Douglas Fir Plywood Association (now APA - The Engineered Wood Association) of Tacoma, Washington for design proposals for a sailboat that would "... be both a racing and cruising boat; provide sleeping accommodations for four crew; be capable of being ...
Ranger was a J-class racing yacht that successfully defended the 1937 America's Cup, defeating the British challenger Endeavour II 4–0 at Newport, Rhode Island. It was the last time J-class yachts would race for the America's Cup.
In an August 1959 review for Sports Illustrated, Thomas Atkinson reported, "Unlike many class boats which were designed as pure racing machines, however, the Snipe offers more than speed and thrills. It is a miniature yacht as well as a racing boat, and despite the fact that newer and faster classes continually appear, the Snipe is more in ...
The 11 Meter is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of cored fiberglass.It has a fractional sloop rig, a raked stem, a sharply reverse transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel with a weighted lead bulb.
The design of the boat is what is known as a Bermuda sloop, or a Marconi sloop, being single-masted and Bermuda rigged. The result may be considered a reminder of yachting's "Golden age" with the traditional metre-boat's long overhangs, graceful sheer, deep, narrow hull, and lofty rig. An IOD sloop and a 19th-century Bermudian working boat in ...
c.104 boats built to date, but newest number is 51. Active club in Dun Laoghaire with up to 31 boats racing every week of the summer season [1] 1896: GBR/ IRL: Nipper: unknown, less than 12 ft: Cleg Foley of Ringsend: Cleg Foley of Ringsend: Sutton Golf Club and Boat Club, near Dublin: no active fleets: Sailed at Cush Point, now home of Sutton ...