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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.
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.
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 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.
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 Hartley TS16 (Trailer Sailer 16 foot) is an Australian trailerable sailing boat that was designed in 1956 by New Zealander Richard Hartley as a day sailer and which later became a one design racer. [1] [2] [3] The design was based on a traditional New Zealand mullet fishing boat and was the first trailer sailer sailboat design built. [3]
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]
The Waszp is a racing sailing dinghy, with the hull built predominantly of infused epoxy.It has a free-standing catboat rig, a concave plumb stem, a vertical transom, an aluminum frame-mounted, transom-hung, hydrofoil rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable, aluminum, hydrofoil daggerboard.