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59 relations: Aileen Bryan, Aluminium, American Machine and Foundry, American Sailboat Hall of Fame, Aspect ratio, Aspect ratio (aeronautics), Bailing (boats), Beam (nautical), Beaufort scale, Bermuda rig, Chine (boating), Connecticut River, Crab claw sail, Daggerboard, Dinghy racing, Dinghy sailing, Do it yourself, Downhaul, Draft (sail), Fiberglass, Float (nautical), Framing (construction), Freeboard (nautical), Generic trademark, Gunwale, Hull (watercraft), Hull speed, Iceboat, Laser (dinghy), LaserPerformance, Mast (sailing), Methacrylate, Monohull, One-design racing, Outhaul, Paddleboarding, Pan American Games, Pintle, Planing (boat), Point of sail, Portsmouth Yardstick, Racing Rules of Sailing, Rigging, Rudder, Sail, Sail plan, Sailfish (sailboat), Seattle, Sheet (sailing), Sports governing body, ... Expand index (9 more) »
- 1950s sailboat type designs
- Sailboat types built by LaserPerformance
- Single-handed sailing
Aileen Bryan
Aileen Shields Bryan (April 4, 1925 – November 29, 2005) was an American sailor who won the 1948 United States' women's national sailing championship.
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Aluminium
Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.
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American Machine and Foundry
American Machine and Foundry (known after 1970 as AMF, Inc.) was one of the United States' largest recreational equipment companies, with diversified products as disparate as garden equipment, atomic reactors, and yachts.
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American Sailboat Hall of Fame
The American Sailboat Hall of Fame is a defunct hall of fame honoring 26 production sailboats built-in the United States.
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Aspect ratio
The aspect ratio of a geometric shape is the ratio of its sizes in different dimensions.
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Aspect ratio (aeronautics)
In aeronautics, the aspect ratio of a wing is the ratio of its span to its mean chord.
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Bailing (boats)
Bailing is the process of removing water from a vessel.
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Beam (nautical)
The beam of a ship is its width at its widest point.
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Beaufort scale
The Beaufort scale is an empirical measure that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land.
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Bermuda rig
A Bermuda rig, Bermudian rig, or Marconi rig is a configuration of mast and rigging for a type of sailboat and is the typical configuration for most modern sailboats.
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Chine (boating)
A chine in boat design is a sharp change in angle in the cross section of a hull.
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Connecticut River
The Connecticut River is the longest river in the New England region of the United States, flowing roughly southward for through four states.
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Crab claw sail
The crab claw sail is a fore-and-aft triangular sail with spars along upper and lower edges.
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Daggerboard
A daggerboard is a retractable centreboard used by various sailing craft.
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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. Sunfish (sailboat) and dinghy racing are dinghies.
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Dinghy sailing
Dinghy sailing is the activity of sailing small boats by using five essential controls. Sunfish (sailboat) and Dinghy sailing are dinghies.
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Do it yourself
"Do it yourself" ("DIY") is the method of building, modifying, or repairing things by oneself without the direct aid of professionals or certified experts.
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Downhaul
The downhaul is a line which is part of the rigging on a sailboat; it applies downward force on a spar or sail.
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Draft (sail)
In nautical parlance, the draft or draught of a sail refers to the amount and shape of curvature in a horizontal cross-section.
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Fiberglass
Fiberglass (American English) or fibreglass (Commonwealth English) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber.
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Float (nautical)
Floats (also called pontoons) are airtight hollow structures, similar to pressure vessels, designed to provide buoyancy in water.
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Framing (construction)
Framing, in construction, is the fitting together of pieces to give a structure support and shape.
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Freeboard (nautical)
In sailing and boating, a vessel's freeboard is the distance from the waterline to the upper deck level, measured at the lowest point of sheer where water can enter the boat or ship.
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Generic trademark
A generic trademark, also known as a genericized trademark or proprietary eponym, is a trademark or brand name that, because of its popularity or significance, has become the generic term for, or synonymous with, a general class of products or services, usually against the intentions of the trademark's owner.
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Gunwale
The gunwale is the top edge of the hull of a ship or boat.
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Hull (watercraft)
A hull is the watertight body of a ship, boat, submarine, or flying boat.
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Hull speed
Hull speed or displacement speed is the speed at which the wavelength of a vessel's bow wave is equal to the waterline length of the vessel.
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Iceboat
An iceboat (occasionally spelled ice boat or traditionally called an ice yacht) is a recreational or competition sailing craft supported on metal runners for traveling over ice.
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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, appropriate to a given combination of wind strength and crew weight. Sunfish (sailboat) and Laser (dinghy) are dinghies and sailboat types built by LaserPerformance.
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LaserPerformance
LaserPerformance is an Anglo-American dinghy manufacturer.
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Mast (sailing)
The mast of a sailing vessel is a tall spar, or arrangement of spars, erected more or less vertically on the centre-line of a ship or boat.
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Methacrylate
Methacrylates are derivatives of methacrylic acid.
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Monohull
right A monohull is a type of boat having only one hull, unlike multihulled boats which can have two or more individual hulls connected to one another.
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One-design racing
One-design racing is a racing method which may be adopted in sports using complex equipment, whereby all vehicles have identical or very similar designs or models, avoiding the need for a handicap system.
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Outhaul
An outhaul is a control line found on a sailboat.
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Paddleboarding
Paddleboarding is a water sport in which participants are propelled by a swimming motion using their arms while lying or kneeling on a paddleboard or surfboard in the ocean or other body of water.
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Pan American Games
The Pan American Games (known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions.
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Pintle
A pintle is a pin or bolt, usually inserted into a gudgeon, which is used as part of a pivot or hinge.
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Planing (boat)
Planing is the mode of operation for a waterborne craft in which its weight is predominantly supported by hydrodynamic lift, rather than hydrostatic lift (buoyancy).
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Point of sail
A point of sail is a sailing craft's direction of travel under sail in relation to the true wind direction over the surface.
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Portsmouth Yardstick
The Portsmouth Yardstick (PY) or Portsmouth handicap scheme is a term used for a number of related systems of empirical handicapping used primarily in small sailboat racing.
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Racing Rules of Sailing
The Racing Rules of Sailing (often abbreviated to RRS) govern the conduct of yacht racing, windsurfing, kitesurfing, model boat racing, dinghy racing and virtually any other form of racing around a course with more than one vessel while powered by the wind.
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Rigging
Rigging comprises the system of ropes, cables and chains, which support and control a sailing ship or sail boat's masts and sails.
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Rudder
A rudder is a primary control surface used to steer a ship, boat, submarine, hovercraft, airship, or other vehicle that moves through a fluid medium (usually air or water).
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Sail
A sail is a tensile structure, which is made from fabric or other membrane materials, that uses wind power to propel sailing craft, including sailing ships, sailboats, windsurfers, ice boats, and even sail-powered land vehicles.
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Sail plan
A sail plan is a drawing of a sailing craft, viewed from the side, depicting its sails, the spars that carry them and some of the rigging that supports the rig.
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Sailfish (sailboat)
The Sailfish sailboat is a small, hollow body, board-boat style sailing dinghy. Sunfish (sailboat) and Sailfish (sailboat) are dinghies and single-handed sailing.
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Seattle
Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.
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Sheet (sailing)
In sailing, a sheet is a line (rope, cable or chain) used to control the movable corner(s) (clews) of a sail.
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Sports governing body
A sports governing body is a sports organization that has a regulatory or sanctioning function.
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Stays (nautical)
Stays are ropes, wires, or rods on sailing vessels that run fore-and-aft along the centerline from the masts to the hull, deck, bowsprit, or to other masts which serve to stabilize the masts.
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Symbiosis
Symbiosis (from Greek,, "living with, companionship, camaraderie", from,, "together", and, bíĹŤsis, "living") is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two biological organisms of different species, termed symbionts, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic.
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Trade name
A trade name, trading name, or business name is a pseudonym used by companies that do not operate under their registered company name.
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Trademark
A trademark (also written trade mark or trade-mark) is a type of intellectual property consisting of a recognizable sign, design, or expression that identifies a product or service from a particular source and distinguishes it from others.
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Traveller (nautical fitting)
A traveller is a part of the rigging of a boat or ship that provides a moving attachment point for a rope, sail or yard to a fixed part of the vessel.
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US Sailing
The United States Sailing Association (US Sailing) is the national governing body for sailing in the United States.
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Vanguard Sailboats
Vanguard Sailboats was one of the most successful sailboat builders.
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Waterline length
A vessel's length at the waterline (abbreviated to L.W.L) is the length of a ship or boat at the level where it sits in the water (the waterline).
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World Sailing
World Sailing (WS) is the world governing body for the sport of sailing recognized by the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
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See also
1950s sailboat type designs
- 505 (dinghy)
- Amphibi-Con 25
- Arco 33
- Bermuda 40
- Beverly Dinghy
- Block Island 40
- Cal 24
- Cape Cod Gemini
- Dart (dinghy)
- Dolphin 24
- Enterprise (dinghy)
- Fairey Atalanta
- Flying Dutchman (dinghy)
- Flying Scot (dinghy)
- Gladiator 24
- Hartley TS16
- Herreshoff Goldeneye
- Herreshoff Rozinante
- Hilbre One Design
- International FJ
- Jet 14
- L 6 (keelboat)
- Lapworth 24
- Lehman 12
- Lehman Interclub
- Lido 14
- M Scow
- MC Scow
- Marlin 23
- Mercer 44
- Minisail (dinghy)
- Mobjack (dinghy)
- New Horizons 26
- OK (dinghy)
- Pearson Triton
- Picnic 17
- Rhodes 19
- Sea Sprite 23
- Shark 24
- Silhouette (boat)
- Stella (yacht)
- Sunfish (sailboat)
- Swiftsure 33
- Thunderbird 26
- Vaurien
- Windmill (sailing dinghy)
Sailboat types built by LaserPerformance
- 2000 (dinghy)
- 420 (dinghy)
- Dart 16
- Dart 18
- Laser (dinghy)
- Laser 3000
- Laser 4.7
- Laser 4000
- Laser 5000
- Laser Pico
- Laser Radial
- Laser Stratos
- Laser Vago
- Optimist (dinghy)
- SB20
- Sunfish (sailboat)
- Vanguard 15
- Vortex (sailboat)
Single-handed sailing
- Class40
- IMOCA 60
- Mini Globe Race
- Sailfish (sailboat)
- Single-handed sailing
- Single-handed sailors
- Sunfish (sailboat)
- Swirly World In Perpetuity
- Teresa Remiszewska
- Tinkerbelle
- Ultim (trimaran sailboat class)
References
Also known as Sunfish (class), Sunfish (dinghy), Super Sunfish, Super Sunfish (Sailboat).