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The film focuses on Plant's professional sailing career, notably his successful campaigns in single-handed races around the world: the BOC Challenge and the Vendée Globe. From his debut and underdog victory in the 1986-87 BOC Challenge to his death at sea in advance of the 1992 Vendée Globe , the film relies primarily on archival footage and ...
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 are made of either wood or fiberglass. The basic shape was developed in 1954 from an Uffa Fox design, the Swordfish. Recent boats retain the same classic dimensions, and use modern materials ...
Hydroptère is a French experimental sailing hydrofoil trimaran imagined by the yachtman Éric Tabarly.The Hydroptère project was managed by Alain Thébault, the design done by naval architects VPLP design [1] and the manufacturing by a group of French high-tech companies.
She prefers inshore one-design sailing, and sails in both match racing events and fleet racing events. [8] As of April 2021, Breault was the top ranked women's matching race sailor in the United States and #3 in the world; in the open rankings she is ranked #7 in the United States and #39 in the world. [9] Sailing is in the family around Breault.
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 and sometimes lifting foils as found on the Moth )
The record for the fastest time (6 hours, 46 minutes, and 40 seconds) was set in 1998 by Stars & Stripes, captained by America's Cup sailing champion Dennis Conner. [ 4 ] With over 20 classes, the race provides competitive classes for a variety of sea-going sailboats ranging from large ultra-light and maxi-yachts to smaller yachts in non ...
29er. The 29er class is targeted at youth, especially those training to sail the larger Olympic 49er.The Youth Sailing World Championships [citation needed] has adopted it to replace the Laser 2 - which was designed by Julian Bethwaite's father Frank.
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 expensive and largely commercially produced boat designed to hydroplane on foils though many are still built at home, typically at much lower cost.