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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 ...
The one sheet boat (OSB, cf. oriented strand board) is an outgrowth of the stitch and glue technique. The OSB is a boat that can be built using a single sheet of 4 foot by 8 foot plywood (1.22 m × 2.44 m). Some additional wood is often used, for supports, chines, or as a transom, though some can be built entirely with the sheet of plywood ...
The Do-it-yourself Mermaid is an 11 foot (3.4m) plywood sailing dinghy designed by Roger Hancock in 1962. Usually built at home, it is suitable for a crew of two or three. It can be sailed, rowed or motored and can be trailed or car-topped. The boat is gunter rigged, with one size of jib. A spinnaker is used for racing.
The Cherry 16 is a 4.864 m (15.96 ft) light weight trailer sailer designed by Frank Pelin in the 1970s. [2] [3] The hull is assembled from plywood using the stitch and glue method and can be assembled by an amateur boat builder.
The Frosty is a racing sailboat, usually built of wood, using two 4 by 8 ft (1.2 by 2.4 m) sheets of 0.25 in (6.4 mm) plywood and assembled using an epoxy stitch and glue technique. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The design has a pram hull with no chines or internal framing and has only one bulkhead.
Early models were usually made from plywood. More recent models have been made from fiberglass . Variations on the design include the daggerboard -equipped El Toro from the Richmond Yacht Club in San Francisco Bay Area , the US Sabot , the " Naples Sabot " from Naples community of Long Beach, California , as well as Australian varieties, such ...
The US Sabot is an American pram sailboat that was designed by Charles McGregor as a one-design racer and first built in 1939. [1] [2]The design is a development of McGregor's Sabot, based upon the plans published in The Rudder magazine in 1939.
The Mercury 18, sometimes just referred to as a Mercury, is an American sailboat that was designed by Ernest Nunes as a one design racer and first built in 1939. The boat was one of the first one-design sailboat classes designed for plywood construction.