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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.
It was the first the series of Nonsuch sailboats and was scaled upwards and down, to form a complete line of boats, from the Nonsuch 22 to the Nonsuch 40. [1] [2] The Nonsuch 30 hull design was used to create the 1994 Nonsuch 324, which features a carbon fibre wishbone boom, more sail area and a wing keel. [3]
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]
The Canada's Cup winner in 1978 was a C&C design, the Two Ton class Evergreen, [19] owned by Don Green with Hans Fogh at the helm. [20] The design was a radical, dinghy-like, 41-foot boat, designed with the aim of winning the trophy as the C&C design team had exploited loopholes in the regatta rules.
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 ...
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.
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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.