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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.
The hull has a raked stem, a plumb transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel or centerboard. [1] [4] The design has sleeping accommodation for two people in the cuddy cabin and includes a built-in icebox. [4] For sailing the design has cockpit space for six to eight people.
Uffa Fox started building 14s in 1923, and was designing them by 1925. He was to transform the class with the introduction of his first planing hull design, Avenger, in 1927. The construction and finish of his 14s was considered by many to be the ultimate in quality and craftsmanship, and Thunder and Lightning built in 1938 was no exception.
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 ...
Mariner 19 later model Mariner 19 with newer cabin design. The Mariner 19 is a small recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass.It has a fractional sloop rig, a rounded raked stem, a vertical transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel or optional centerboard.
A group of seven passengers is grateful for their rescue by the Coast Guard after their boat was hit by lightning off the coast of Florida in a frightening scene captured on video.
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The boat has a draft of 4.90 ft (1.49 m) with the standard keel. It can be transported on land on a towed double-axle boat trailer. [1] [2] [5] For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with an asymmetrical spinnaker of 700 sq ft (65 m 2). It will plane under spinnaker. [1] [2] [5] The design has a hull speed of 6.29 kn (11.65 km/h). [2]