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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.
Uffa Fox started building 14s in 1923, and was designing them by 1925. He was to transform the class with the introduction of his first planing hull design, Avenger, in 1927. The construction and finish of his 14s was considered by many to be the ultimate in quality and craftsmanship, and Thunder and Lightning built in 1938 was no exception.
The boat was built with three different interior floor plans, the classic, ultra and nova. [4] The boat has a draft of 5.00 ft (1.52 m) with the standard keel and 3.96 ft (1.21 m) with the shoal keel fitted. [1] The boat is fitted with a Westerbeke diesel engine of 27 hp (20 kW). The fuel tank holds 30 U.S. gallons (110 L; 25 imp gal) and the ...
The boat was built with three different interior layouts: a two-cabin, three cabin with one head and three-cabin with two heads. A typical three-cabin layout has sleeping accommodation for six people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin, a U-shaped settee and two seats in the main cabin and two aft cabins, each with a double berth. The two ...
Lightning was a clipper ship, one of the last really large clippers to be built in the United States. She was built by Donald McKay for James Baines of the Black Ball Line, Liverpool, for the Australia trade. [1] [2] It has been said [by whom?] that Lightning was the most extreme example of a type of ship classified as an extreme clipper ...
Consequently, every OK develops to suit the owner's style of sailing, while the shape of the hull is defined by a comprehensive set of strict one-design rules ensuring a long competitive life span. Old boats often only need a rig update and minor constructional modifications to make them competitive, provided they meet modern buoyancy requirements.
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The Hunter Passage 42 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass.It has a B&R masthead sloop rig, a center cockpit, a raked stem, a walk-through reverse transom with a swimming platform and folding ladder, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed wing keel.