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Because of the need of strength, agility and skill, the class is considered to be the top level of small boat sailing. Worldwide this boat is called the "18 Foot Skiff". It is the fastest conventional non-foiling monohull on the yardstick rating, with a score of 675, [1] coming only third after the Tornado and Inter 20 (Both multihulls).
The 12 m 2 Sharpie was a type of Sharpie sailing boat designed in 1931 by the Kröger Brothers in Warnemünde, Germany. The peak of the class was in the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games . The original design has been preserved, and the class is sailed competitively in the UK, [ 1 ] The Netherlands, [ 2 ] Germany, [ 3 ] and Portugal. [ 4 ]
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. The handicap is applied to the time taken to sail any course, and the handicaps can be used with widely differing types of sailboats.
Australian Sailing is recognised by World Sailing as the governing body for the sport of sailing in Australia. It formed in 1950 as the Australian Yachting Federation at a meeting at the Royal St. Kilda Yacht Club. [1] It is responsible for the administration, promotion and development of sailing in Australia.
The NS14 (or Northbridge Senior 14) is an Australian restricted development class of sailing dinghy.Measuring 14 feet in length, the class was designed the 1960 and introduced at the Northbridge sailing club in Sydney, Australia, with control of the class transferred to the NS14 Association of New South Wales in 1965. [2]
The 59er dinghy was put into production in Australia and the UK in 2002. It is a non-trapeze, 4.7-metre (15 ft 5 in) sailing dinghy, rigged with an asymmetrical spinnaker . It is designed for a crew weight of 145 to 180 kg (320 to 400 lb).
The Tasar is an international class, with strong fleets in Australia, USA, Britain, and Japan. The class gained status from the World governing body for sailing in November 2001 permitting the class to hold an officially recognised World Championships. 2006 saw the introduction of new PET film sails. In addition, the hull moulds have replaced ...
Australian Pilot is a series of editions of Sailing Directions to navigators in Australian coastal waters. Most editions were published by the British Admiralty Hydrographic Department . The publication was required to be used in conjunction with the British Admiralty Notices to Mariners , nautical charts and any supplements produced.