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Cooper Enterprises Inc. (sometimes referred to as Cooper Yachts Limited) was a Canadian boat builder based in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of fibreglass sailboats and powerboats. [1] [2] The company was founded by Forbes Cooper in 1970 and closed in 1990. [1] [2]
The eastern states team headed by Syd Fischer purchased Australia I (KA 5) as a trial boat while a new boat designed by Peter Cole was built. Steak 'n Kidney (KA-14, named after steak and kidney pie , popular in Australia and to the rhyming slang for the City of Sydney ) was launched relatively late in the campaign at a ceremony at the Sydney ...
The process of determining the PHRF for an individual boat begins with the regional PHRF rating, then adjustments are made for the individual attributes of the boat such as: modifications to the rig, the size of the largest foresail (jib or genoa), the size of the spinnakers, type of keel (full, fin, wing etc.), the number of blades on the propeller, and the style of the propeller (fixed ...
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International Rating Certificate (IRC) is a system of handicapping sailboats and yachts for the purpose of racing. It is managed by the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) in the United Kingdom through their dedicated Rating Office, [1] and the Union Nationale pour la Course au Large (UNCL) in France.
Ada Yacht Works: Jaron Ginton: 2018: Auxiliary steel sloop with aluminium flybridge All About u 2: 49.90 m (164 ft) Ada Yacht Works: Jaron Ginton: 2019: Auxiliary steel sloop with aluminium flybridge, sistership of All About u: Zefira: 49.70 m (163 ft) Fitzroy Yachts: Ed Dubois: 2010: Aluminium sloop Ohana II: 49.70 m (163 ft) Fitzroy Yachts ...
The boat building enterprise became Com-Pac Yachts. [1] [2] The Com-Pac 19 was designed by Bob Johnson of Island Packet Yachts in 1979. The largest boat built by the company was the Com-Pac 35, a 1990 Charley Morgan design. In 1999 the company started making small catboats and discovered an untapped market.
Each class of boat is assigned a "Portsmouth Number", with fast boats having low numbers and slow ones high numbers—so, for example, in the case of two dinghies, a 49er might have a RYA-PY of 697 while a Mirror has a RYA-PY of 1390 (these are the actual RYA Portsmouth numbers for 2018, but note that adjustments are made each year).