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Roué produced a design, at the request of a group from the Armdale Yacht Club in Halifax, for a small one-design sloop that would be both fast and elegant and could be sailed easily by two or three people. The schooner Bluenose was still afloat, but had been sold to the West Indian Trading Company for use as a freighter.
Cork Harbour One Design: 29 ft 0 in (8.84 m) William Fife: No current builders: Royal Cork Yacht Club: At least one boat active. [6] 1897: IRL: Howth 17 Footer: 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m) W. Herbert Boyd: Various builders: Howth Yacht Club: Howth Yacht Club: About 17 boats actively race weekly. This is a one-design keelboat, and not a dinghy. [7] 1898 ...
The Optimist is a small, single-handed sailing dinghy intended for use by young people up to the age of 15. The Optimist is one of the two most popular sailing dinghies in the world, with over 150,000 boats officially registered with the class and many more built but never registered.
C&C Mega 30 One Design. The Mega 30 is a small recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass. It has a fractional sloop rig, a transom-hung rudder and a lifting or fixed fin keel. [1] [2] The boat is normally fitted with a small outboard motor for docking and maneuvering. [1]
The Loch Long One Design is a small wooden sloop rigged keelboat.The design was commissioned by members of Loch Long Sailing Club to mark the 1937 coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth and to replace their existing sailing craft with a low cost design which was capable of safe use in the local conditions found on Loch Long and the Firth of Clyde.
The Force 5 is a small one-design racing sailboat that is similar to the more well known Laser but with a hard chine aft. Although it is designed for single-handed racing, two people can easily fit into the large cockpit. The boats are products of Weeks Yacht Yard on Long Island, New York. [1]
Quincy Adams used the Herreshoff builder's plate, and built 51 hulls from 1943 through 1948. The Quincy Adams boats had hull numbers in the 2000s, and were planked with mahogany rather than the white cedar used by HMC. They also have something of a reverse sheer forward. In 1947, Cape Cod Shipbuilding [note 1] acquired the rights to the design ...
The Sonar is a one design trailerable racing sailboat that was designed by Canadian naval architect Bruce Kirby and first built in 1980. [1] [2] [3] The design was initiated as a commission from the members of the Noroton Yacht Club of Darien, Connecticut, United States. [1] The Sonar was inducted into the American Sailboat Hall of Fame in 2004 ...