• The Interlake is an American planing sailing dinghy that was designed by Francis Sweisguth in 1932, as a one-design racer and first built in 1933. The...
    8 KB (562 words) - 16:30, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of sailing boat types
    partial list of sailboat types and sailing classes, including keelboats, dinghies, and multihull (catamarans and trimarans). Historically known as the IYRU...
    94 KB (4,145 words) - 05:29, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dinghy racing
    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...
    14 KB (1,827 words) - 05:14, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Europe (dinghy)
    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...
    25 KB (301 words) - 21:12, 2 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Dinghy sailing
    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...
    22 KB (3,012 words) - 11:33, 6 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Laser (dinghy)
    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,...
    18 KB (1,846 words) - 16:29, 23 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Finn (dinghy)
    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...
    7 KB (418 words) - 18:55, 30 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lightning (dinghy)
    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. An...
    10 KB (619 words) - 15:05, 8 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sabot (dinghy)
    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...
    2 KB (117 words) - 21:19, 6 December 2023
  • The Tadpole is a small dinghy with an approximate length of 6 feet (2 m) and an approximate beam of 31⁄2 feet. Its gaff rig has 30 square feet (3 m2) of...
    2 KB (81 words) - 04:25, 2 January 2021
  • Thumbnail for Enterprise (dinghy)
    The Enterprise is a Bermuda rigged sailing dinghy with a double-chined hull and distinctive blue sails. Normally crewed by two, and sometimes carrying...
    5 KB (394 words) - 02:46, 10 July 2023
  • 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...
    16 KB (1,880 words) - 20:14, 7 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cadet (dinghy)
    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...
    5 KB (375 words) - 17:50, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for 470 (dinghy)
    The 470 (Four-Seventy) is a double-handed monohull planing dinghy with a centreboard, Bermuda rig, and centre sheeting. Equipped with a spinnaker, trapeze...
    8 KB (755 words) - 13:14, 9 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wayfarer (dinghy)
    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...
    19 KB (1,949 words) - 14:30, 23 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Heron (dinghy)
    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...
    4 KB (411 words) - 20:44, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for 420 (dinghy)
    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...
    14 KB (753 words) - 20:24, 1 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Streaker (dinghy)
    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...
    3 KB (182 words) - 13:58, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Byte (dinghy)
    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...
    7 KB (630 words) - 14:19, 7 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for 505 (dinghy)
    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...
    10 KB (720 words) - 17:34, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thistle (dinghy)
    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...
    8 KB (566 words) - 00:11, 21 June 2024
  • 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...
    6 KB (408 words) - 05:31, 16 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Flying Dutchman (dinghy)
    The Flying Dutchman is a Dutch planing sailing dinghy that was designed by Uus Van Essen and Conrad Gülcher as a high performance, one design racer and...
    19 KB (1,128 words) - 21:38, 16 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for 49er (dinghy)
    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...
    10 KB (1,025 words) - 15:34, 1 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Moth (dinghy)
    The Moth is a small development class of sailing dinghy. Originally a small, fast home-built sailing boat designed to plane, since 2000 it has become an...
    16 KB (1,683 words) - 22:50, 30 September 2024
  • The Blue Jay is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by Drake Sparkman of Sparkman & Stephens as a trainer for the Lightning one-design racer....
    9 KB (629 words) - 15:35, 15 October 2022
  • Thumbnail for Contender (dinghy)
    performance sailing dinghy, designed by Bob Miller, latterly known as Ben Lexcen, (Australia) in 1967 as a possible successor to the Finn dinghy for Olympic competition...
    39 KB (1,763 words) - 10:27, 16 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Flying Scot (dinghy)
    The Flying Scot is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by Sandy Douglass as a one-design racer and first built in 1958. The design has been previously...
    10 KB (798 words) - 17:54, 4 May 2023
  • The Frog is a small dinghy with an approximate length of 7'10" and an approximate beam of 4'. Its sprit and foresail rig has 40 square feet (4 m2) of sail...
    2 KB (71 words) - 05:08, 22 December 2019
  • Thumbnail for Albacore (dinghy)
    The Albacore is a 4.57 m (15 ft) two-person planing dinghy with fractional sloop rig, for competitive racing and lake and near-inshore day sailing. Hulls...
    15 KB (1,402 words) - 10:50, 24 August 2023