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The Lightning Youth World Championship is an bi-annual international sailing regatta for lightning (dinghy), organized by the host club on behalf of the International Lightning Class Association and recognized by World Sailing, the sports IOC recognized governing body.
The Lightning World Championship is a bi-annual international sailing regatta for lightning (dinghy), organized by the host club on behalf of the International Lightning Class Association and recognized by World Sailing, the sport's IOC-recognized governing body. The class gained class status in November 1962 from World Sailing, so its first ...
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.
Dinghy racing is a competitive sport using dinghies, which are small boats which may be rowboats, have an outboard motor, or be sailing dinghies. Dinghy racing has affected aspects of the modern sailing dinghy , including hull design, sail materials and sailplan , and techniques such as planing and trapezing .
(Yacht) Farr Maxi One Design: Maxi One Design World: Fleet: Open – no longer held [23] (Yacht) Mumm 36: Mumm 36 World Championships: Fleet: Open – 1990s: 1990s: no longer held [23] (Yacht) ORMA 60: ORMA 60 World Championships: Series: Open – 1990s: 2000s: annually: no longer held [23] (Yacht) Open 50: Open 50 World Championships: Series ...
A Snipe sailing. The Snipe is a racing sailboat, with early examples built with wooden hulls and more recent ones with hulls made from fiberglass. It has a fractional sloop rig, a spooned raked stem, an angled transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller with an extension and a retractable daggerboard. It displaces 380 lb (172 kg). [1] [2]
The World Sailing's Sailing World Cup is a series of sailing regattas. The World Cup came into existence during the 2008–09 Season. The World Cup came into existence during the 2008–09 Season. The series includes boats that have competed in the Olympics and Paralympics .
A match race is a race between two competitors, going head-to-head.. In sailboat racing it is differentiated from a fleet race, which almost always involves three or more competitors competing against each other, and team racing where teams consisting of 2, 3 or 4 boats compete together in a team race, with their results being combined.