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Y Flyer

Index Y Flyer

The Y Flyer is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by Alvin Youngquist in 1938 as a one-design racer and first built in 1941. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 36 relations: Aluminium, Bailing (boats), Beaching (nautical), Bermuda rig, Boat trailer, Canada, Centreboard, Chine (boating), Dinghy sailing, Draft (hull), Fiberglass, Fractional rig, George Hinterhoeller, Hiking (sailing), Hinterhoeller Yachts, Homebuilt machines, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, List of sailing boat types, Monohull, Niagara Falls, Ontario, One-design racing, Plywood, Portsmouth Yardstick, Rudder, Running rigging, Sailboat, Sailing (sport), Sailor, Scow, Sheer (ship), Sloop, Spinnaker, Tiller, Transom (nautical), Traveller (nautical fitting), United States.

  2. 1930s sailboat type designs
  3. Sailboat type designs Alvin Youngquist
  4. Sailboat types built by Hinterhoeller Yachts
  5. Sailboat types built by Jack A. Helms Co.
  6. Sailboat types built by Jibetech
  7. Sailboat types built by Turner Marine

Aluminium

Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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Bailing (boats)

Bailing is the process of removing water from a vessel.

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Beaching (nautical)

Beaching (or landing) is the process in which a ship or boat is laid ashore, or grounded deliberately in shallow water.

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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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Boat trailer

A boat trailer is designed to launch, retrieve, carry and sometimes store boats.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Centreboard

A centreboard or centerboard (US) is a retractable hull appendage which pivots out of a slot in the hull of a sailboat, known as a centreboard trunk (UK) or centerboard case (US).

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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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Dinghy sailing

Dinghy sailing is the activity of sailing small boats by using five essential controls. Y Flyer and Dinghy sailing are dinghies.

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Draft (hull)

The draft or draught of a ship is a determined depth of the vessel below the waterline, measured vertically to its hull's lowest—its propellers, or keel, or other reference point.

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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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Fractional rig

A fractional rig on a sailing vessel consists of a foresail, such as a jib or genoa sail, that does not reach all the way to the top of the mast.

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George Hinterhoeller

George Anton Hinterhoeller (1928–1999) was a Canadian boat designer and builder, a significant contributor to the Canadian sailboat industry for almost forty years.

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Hiking (sailing)

In sailing, hiking (stacking or stacking out in New Zealand; leaning out or sitting out in United Kingdom) is the action of moving the crew's body weight as far to windward (upwind) as possible, in order to decrease the extent the boat heels (leans away from the wind).

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Hinterhoeller Yachts

Hinterhoeller Yachts was a Canadian boat builder based in St. Catharines, Ontario.

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Homebuilt machines

Homebuilt machines are machines built outside of specialised workshops or factories.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works.

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List of sailing boat types

The following is a partial list of sailboat types and sailing classes, including keelboats, dinghies, and multihull (catamarans and trimarans).

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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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Niagara Falls, Ontario

Niagara Falls is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario, adjacent to Niagara Falls.

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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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Plywood

Plywood is a composite material manufactured from thin layers, or "plies", of wood veneer that are glued together with adjacent layers, having both glued with each other at right angle.

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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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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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Running rigging

Running rigging is the rigging of a sailing vessel that is used for raising, lowering, shaping and controlling the sails on a sailing vessel—as opposed to the standing rigging, which supports the mast and bowsprit.

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Sailboat

A sailboat or sailing boat is a boat propelled partly or entirely by sails and is smaller than a sailing ship.

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Sailing (sport)

The sport of sailing involves a variety of competitive sailing formats that are sanctioned through various sailing federations and yacht clubs.

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Sailor

A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship.

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Scow

A scow is a smaller type of barge. Y Flyer and scow are dinghies.

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Sheer (ship)

The sheer is a measure of longitudinal main deck curvature in naval architecture.

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Sloop

A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast.

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Spinnaker

A spinnaker is a sail designed specifically for sailing off the wind on courses between a reach (wind at 90° to the course) to downwind (course in the same direction as the wind).

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Tiller

A tiller or till is a lever used to steer a vehicle.

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Transom (nautical)

In some boats and ships, a transom is the aft transverse surface of the hull that forms the stern of a vessel.

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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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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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See also

1930s sailboat type designs

Sailboat type designs Alvin Youngquist

Sailboat types built by Hinterhoeller Yachts

Sailboat types built by Jack A. Helms Co.

Sailboat types built by Jibetech

Sailboat types built by Turner Marine

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Flyer