A dinghy is a type of small boat, often carried or towed by a larger vessel for use as a tender. Utility dinghies are usually rowboats or have an outboard...
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The Laser is a class of single-handed, one-design sailing dinghies using a common hull design with three interchangeable rigs of different sail areas,...
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Dinghy sailing is the activity of sailing small boats by using five essential controls: The sails The foils (i.e. the daggerboard or centreboard and rudder...
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The Mirror is a type of popular sailing dinghy with more than 70,000 built. The Mirror was named after the Daily Mirror, a UK newspaper with a largely...
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The Sabot is a sailing dinghy that is sailed and raced singlehandedly usually by young sailors in various parts of the world. The boat is suitable for...
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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,...
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Dinghy racing is a competitive sport using dinghies, which are small boats which may be rowboats, have an outboard motor, or be sailing dinghies. Dinghy...
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The International 420 Dinghy is a sailing dinghy popular for racing and teaching. The hull is fiberglass with internal buoyancy tanks. The 420 has a bermuda...
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sailing dinghy, with spinnaker, utilising a trapeze for the crew. The origins of the class began in 1953 with the creation of the 18-foot 'Coronet' dinghy designed...
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A Streaker is a type of sailing dinghy designed in 1975 by Jack Holt. It is a light (minimum weight only 48 kg) one-person boat with a uni-rig stayed sail...
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The Finn dinghy is a single-handed, cat-rigged sailboat, and a former Olympic class for men's sailing. Since its debut at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki...
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270 Fireflies have been completed. The Firefly is a recreational sailing dinghy, initially built predominantly of hot-moulded plywood, glassfibre construction...
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The Heron Dinghy is a dinghy designed by Jack Holt of the United Kingdom as the Yachting World Cartopper (YW Cartopper). The Heron dinghy was designed...
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might also refer to A Jollyboat is a 1953 sailing dinghy designed by Uffa Fox. It was the fastest dinghy in its day, and was built by Fairey Marine 1953...
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The Byte is a small one-design sailing dinghy sailed by one person. It was designed by Canadian Ian Bruce, who also commissioned and marketed the Laser...
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dinghy designed in Belgium in 1960 by Alois Roland as a class legal Moth dinghy. The design later changed into its own one-design class. The dinghy is...
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The OK Dinghy is an international class sailing dinghy, designed by Knud Olsen in 1956. In 1956 Axel Damgaard Olsen of Vordingborg, asked the Danish yacht...
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Wayfarer is a wooden or fibreglass hulled fractional Bermuda rigged sailing dinghy of great versatility; it can be used for short 'day boat' trips, for longer...
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"Down at the Dinghy" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, originally published in Harper's in April 1949, and included in the compilation, Nine Stories...
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The Enterprise is a Bermuda rigged sailing dinghy with a double-chined hull and distinctive blue sails. Normally crewed by two, and sometimes carrying...
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The 49er and 49er FX is a two-handed skiff-type high-performance sailing dinghy. The two crew work on different roles with the helm making many tactical...
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Flipper (redirect from Flipper (dinghy))
from 1966 to 1968 Flipper (US dinghy), an American sailing dinghy design Flipper (Danish dinghy), a Danish sailing dinghy design Flipper (robot combat)...
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The Fireball is a British sailing dinghy that was designed by Peter Milne as a one-design racer and first built in 1962. In the past the design has been...
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Javelin, also called the Javelin 14 and O'Day Javelin is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by Uffa Fox as a one-design racer and first built in 1960...
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The 470 (Four-Seventy) is a double-handed monohull planing dinghy with a centreboard, Bermuda rig, and centre sheeting. Equipped with a spinnaker, trapeze...
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The Skipper Dinghy is a centerboard class of sailing dinghies designed by Peter Milne (boat designer) for recreational use and racing. There are three...
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The Topper is an 11 foot 43 kg (95 lb) sailing dinghy designed by Ian Proctor. The Topper was a one-design boat until 2023 when a new version was produced...
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Laser 2 (redirect from Laser 2 (dinghy))
Vanguard were merged to form LaserPerformance. The Laser 2 is a sailing dinghy, built predominantly of fibreglass. It has a fractional sloop rig, a raked...
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The Thistle is an American planing sailing dinghy that was designed by Sandy Douglass as a one-design racer and first built in 1945. The design was originally...
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The Cadet is a class of sailing dinghy designed to be sailed by two children up to the age of 17. It is a one-design class, originally designed by Jack...
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