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The Apollo 16 is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass.It has a fractional sloop rig with aluminum spars. The hull features a raked stem, a vertical transom, a transom-hung, kick-up rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable, kick-up centerboard.
The Annie 30, often just called Annie, is an American sailboat that was designed by Chuck Paine as an offshore cruiser and first built in 1980. [1] [2] [3]The Annie design was later developed into the Annie 2 by Paine and offered as plans for custom building or amateur construction.
The boat has a double spreader sloop rig with an extruded aluminum mast and boom. [11] The standing rigging is wire, and the running rigging includes internal main and genoa halyards , two genoa sheets , a mainsheet , a boom outhaul and topping lift, a four-part boom vang and preventer, and two flag and burgee halyards.
A Tayana 37 under sail on the East River in New York passes under the Brooklyn Bridge. Robert H. Perry is a U.S. yacht designer based in Seattle, Washington . Among his designs are some of the most successful cruising yachts in modern cruising such as the Tatoosh 42, Tayana 37 and Valiant 40 .
The Y Flyer is a recreational sailboat, initially built predominantly of wood, later versions were constructed of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a flexible fractional sloop rig with wooden or aluminum spars and a rotating mast. The hull is a scow design, with a flat bottom, a reverse sheer and a hard hull chine.
Notable examples of Laurent Giles' work include the famous 25-foot (7.6 m) Vertue (sail numbers suggest that some 230 of these have been made), Wanderer III, [3] the 30' sloop in which Eric and Susan Hiscock circumnavigated, and the race-winning Gulvain, the first ocean racing yacht to be made from an aluminium alloy.
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It also has an internal 2:1 mechanical advantage outhaul, a 4:1 boom vang controlled by the boat's skipper and a 4:1 Cunningham. The boat has adjustable jib fairleads and a mainsheet traveler, plus an Elvstrom bailer. [3] The design has a Portsmouth Yardstick racing average handicap of 90.2 and is normally raced with a crew of two sailors. [3]