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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.
There was an emphasis on shorter waterlines at rest that would expand dramatically when the boat heeled (leaned). This had to do with the rules of racing, where the boat's handicap was not based on actual performance, but on design attributes. Modifications of racing rules and changes in consumer demand have influenced recent boat designs.
The boat was built with three different interior floor plans, the classic, ultra and nova. [4] The boat has a draft of 5.00 ft (1.52 m) with the standard keel and 3.96 ft (1.21 m) with the shoal keel fitted. [1] The boat is fitted with a Westerbeke diesel engine of 27 hp (20 kW). The fuel tank holds 30 U.S. gallons (110 L; 25 imp gal) and the ...
The Hunter Passage 42 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass.It has a B&R masthead sloop rig, a center cockpit, a raked stem, a walk-through reverse transom with a swimming platform and folding ladder, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed wing keel.
The Laser hull is 4.19 m (13.75 ft) long, with a waterline length of 3.96 m (12.99 ft). The hull weight is 59 kg (130 lb), which makes the boat light enough to lift onto a car-top rack. [8] The various sizes of Laser are all cat-rigged. The Laser Standard sail has a sail area of 7.06 m 2 (76.0 sq ft). [8]
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.
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The Sun Odyssey 44 DS (Deck Salon) is a French sailboat with a hull that was designed by Philippe Briand, deck and interior by Franck Darnet, Flahault Design and the Jeanneau Design Office. It was designed as a cruiser and first built in 2011.