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The Sunfish is a personal-size, beach-launched sailing dinghy.It features a very flat, boardlike hull carrying an Oceanic lateen sail mounted to an un-stayed mast.. Sunfish was developed by Alcort, Inc. and first appeared around 1952 as the "next generation" improvement on their original boat, the Sailfish.
David Chapin is an American sailor, 3 time World Champion in the Sunfish and Snipe classes, gold medalist at the Pan American Games, and winner of multiple North American and United States Championships in Sunfish, Snipe, Laser, 470 and Soling classes. [1] He was U.S. Singlehanded Champion in 1977, sailed in Laser. [2]
In a 1994 review Richard Sherwood notes that the, "Dolphin is a lateen-rigged cat board boat, slightly longer than most. Capacity for reasonable sailing is two adults." [2] Randle B. Moore wrote about the design in 2011, saying, "the Dolphin Senior is one of many small sailboats patterned after the world's most produced boat, the Sunfish.
The boat has a draft of 2.83 ft (0.86 m) with the daggerboard extended and 0.31 ft (0.094 m) with it retracted, allowing beaching or ground transportation on a trailer or car roof rack. [ 1 ] The design uses sail sleeves, with the hard-coated aluminum spars inserted into the sleeves to rig the boat.
These divers ran into a super-rare giant sunfish off the coast of Portugal. They only spent 15 minutes with giant Nemo. Photographer Miguel Pereira said in the video's description on YouTube, "A ...
The Snark is a line of lightweight sailboats, at its introduction a two-person, lateen-rigged sailboat manufactured and marketed by Meyers Boat Company of Adrian, Michigan. The Snark was conceived and marketed by Snark Products, Inc. of Fort Lee, New Jersey and was marketed with numerous slight variations, most prominently as the Sea Snark ...
The sunfish stopped eating its jellyfish meals and began to rub its body against the tank, according to a report by Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun, per CNN. At first, staff suspected that the ...
The Sunfish class competition of the sailing events at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara were held from October 17 to October 23 at the Vallarta Yacht Club in Puerto Vallarta. [1] The defending champion was Eduardo Cordero of Venezuela. Points were assigned based on the finishing position in each race (1 for first, 2 for second, etc.).