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In sailing, a hand is a member of a ship's crew. [1] [2] "Single-handed" therefore means with a crew of one, i.e., only one person on the vessel.The term "single-handed" is also used more generally in English to mean "done without help from others" or, literally, "with one hand".
The Musto Skiff is a single-handed sailing skiff with a length of 4.55 m (14 ft 11 in). It features a trapeze , asymmetrical spinnaker , wings and low weight and achieves speeds of over 20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h), which makes it one of the fastest single-handed sailing boats.
The Beneteau Figaro 2 or Beneteau Figaro II, officially designated as the Figaro Beneteau II, is a French sailboat that was designed by Marc Lombard as a one design, single-handed, off-shore racer for the Solitaire du Figaro race and first built in 2003. The boat and the race are named for the race's sponsor, the French newspaper Le Figaro.
The Beneteau Figaro, also called the Figaro I, the Figaro Solo and officially designated as the Figaro Beneteau, is a French sailboat that was designed by Groupe Finot and Jean Berret as a one design, single-handed, off-shore racer especially for the Solitaire du Figaro race and first built in 1990.
The Waszp is an Australian, single-handed, hydrofoiling sailboat that was designed by Andrew McDougall as a one-design racer for youth and adults, and first built in 2016. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Sun Fast 3600 is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of infusion molded fiberglass.The sharp-chined hull has a balsa core, while the deck has a foam core.It has a fractional sloop rig, with a bowsprit, a deck-stepped Soromap mast, two sets of swept spreaders and aluminum spars with Dyform rigging.
Building of Finn dinghies in 1952. The Finn dinghy is a single-handed, cat-rigged sailboat, and a former Olympic class for men's sailing.Since its debut at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, the Finn featured in every summer Olympics until 2020, making it the longest serving dinghy in the Olympic Regatta and one of the most prolific Olympic sailboats,. [3]
Hull number 29 was being single handed from Bermuda to England by Bill Wallace, getting caught in the storm as it entered the English Channel. With winds reaching Force 9 on the Beaufort Scale, the two J/30's weathered the storms, being described as "the best . . . sailboat in the world for its intended purpose." [6]