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The Highlander is a large (20 foot LOA) high performance one-design racing dinghy, also used for day sailing, popular in the United States. It was designed by Gordon K. (Sandy) Douglass in 1949, to be a more comfortable alternative to the Thistle. [1] The Highlander was the last boat built by the Douglass & McLeod company. It was later built by ...
Douglass was a boat designer and created the Highlander and the Thistle for production by the new company, as they concentrated on one design racing boats. His Flying Scot followed in 1958. [1] [2] In 1961 the company commissioned Sparkman & Stephens to design the Tartan 27, which was a commercial and racing success.
This is a list of notable sailboat designers and manufacturers, which are described by an article in English Wikipedia. Sailboat design and manufacturing is done by a number of companies and groups. Notable designers
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The following is a partial list of sailboat types and sailing classes, including keelboats, dinghies, and multihull (catamarans and trimarans). Olympic classes [ edit ]
By early 1978 the class was popular enough to hold a one-design regatta in Key West with twenty boats competing and by that summer sixty-eight competed in Newport, Rhode Island. [ 3 ] Early successful designs included the 1983 J/22 , the 1982 J/29 of which 298 were produced with a design first of either a Fractional Rig (FR) or Masthead (MH ...
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The worst performance can be expected from the center cockpit model with shoal draft. This model tends to make considerable leeway when sailing to weather." [9] In a 2012 review in Cruising World, writer Richard Smith, stated of the design's sailing qualities, "Sailing the S2 9.2 is a treat. In 15 to 17 knots, it heels sharply under the ...