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The Lightning is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by Olin Stephens of Sparkman & Stephens, as a one-design racer and first built in 1938. [1] [2] [3]An accepted World Sailing class, the boat is one of the most popular one-design sailing classes in the United States and is also raced in several other countries.
Lightning was a clipper ship, one of the last really large clippers to be built in the United States. She was built by Donald McKay for James Baines of the Black Ball Line, Liverpool, for the Australia trade. [1] [2] It has been said [by whom?] that Lightning was the most extreme example of a type of ship classified as an extreme clipper ...
The philosophy is to have a dynamic system of handicapping which looks to the performance of a boat model over time but allows for adjustment to an individual boat based on options and/or modifications. What we consider long lean classic proportions of the boats of the early 1900s were at the time design exercises to manipulate the racing rules.
The Canada's Cup winner in 1978 was a C&C design, the Two Ton class Evergreen, [19] owned by Don Green with Hans Fogh at the helm. [20] The design was a radical, dinghy-like, 41-foot boat, designed with the aim of winning the trophy as the C&C design team had exploited loopholes in the regatta rules.
C. Raymond Hunt Associates (doing business as Ray Hunt Design) is an American naval architecture design firm, based in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The company specializes in the design of fiberglass sailboats and powerboats. [1] The company was founded by C. Raymond Hunt and John Deknatel in 1966.
USS PT-96, built by Huckins at Jacksonville, Florida, underway at high speed, circa 1942. Huckins Yacht Corporation built PT boats for two squadrons during World War II. In 1940, three governing bodies – the Bureau of Ships, the Board of Inspection and Survey, and the Navy Personnel Command – had agreed that all PT boats developed up to that time were defective.
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In a 2010 review Steve Henkel wrote, "this vessel from the board of the well-known West Coast yacht designer William Crealock has a long, distinctive (and, to us, a somewhat weird-looking) clipper bow, a "trademark look" of Clipper, the company that built her, Best features: the Clipper 21's draft of only seven inches should make her relatively easy to launch and retrieve, Down below, a ...