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2. Y Flyer - Wikipedia

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   The design is a supported by an active class club, the Y-Flyer Yacht Racing Association, that organizes races and regulates the boat design. [8] By 1994 there were Canadian fleets in Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec. American fleets were located in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, Georgia and South Carolina.

3. Sail plan - Wikipedia

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   Sail plan of a brig. A sail plan is a drawing of a sailing craft, viewed from the side, depicting its sails, the spars that carry them and some of the rigging that supports the rig. [1] By extension, "sail plan" describes the arrangement of sails on a craft. [2] [3] A sailing craft may be waterborne (a ship or boat), an iceboat, or a sail ...

4. File:Sail plan catboat.svg - Wikipedia

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5. Rig (sailing) - Wikipedia

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   [5] [6] A well-designed sail plan should be balanced, requiring only light forces on the helm to keep the sailing craft on course. The fore-and-aft center of effort on a sail plan is usually slightly behind the center of resistance of the hull, [a] so that the sailing craft will tend to turn into the wind if the helm is unattended. [7]

6. Streaker (dinghy) - Wikipedia

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   It is a light (minimum weight only 48 kg) one-person boat with a uni-rig stayed sail plan. It is sailed mainly in Britain and the Philippines , and over 2200 have been built. At first all boats were built of plywood , but since 1998 fibreglass , and fibreglass variants have been used, and now over half of new boats are of fibreglass or ...

7. 505 (dinghy) - Wikipedia

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   This sailboat competed in the International Yacht Racing Union (IYRU) selection trials at La Baule, France, in 1953 for a new two-person performance dinghy for the Olympics. Although the Coronet lost Olympic selection to the Flying Dutchman, in 1954 the Caneton Association of France asked Westell to modify his design to create for them a 5 ...