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The 470 is a two-person sailing dinghy characterized by its planing hull, centerboard, spinnaker, and trapeze. French engineer André Cornu designed the boat in 1963, naming it after its exact length of 4.70 meters. It served as an Olympic class for both men and women continuously from the 1976 Montr...
The Star is a two-person keelboat characterized by its fixed lead keel, slim hull, and large mainsail. Designed by Francis Sweisguth in 1911, it is one of the oldest organized one-design racing classes in the world. The boat was featured as an Olympic sailing class from 1932 through the 2012 London...
The Tornado is a double-handed, twin-trapeze catamaran used in competitive sailing, originally designed by Rodney March in 1967. It served as the official high-performance multihull class for the Olympic Games from 1976 until 2008. The vessel is engineered for speed and utilizes a large sail area re...
The International 505 is a high-performance, double-handed dinghy designed by John Westell in 1954. Characterized by its asymmetrical spinnaker, twin trapezes, and a hull length of 5.05 meters, the boat is built for demanding technical sailing. The class operates under strict measurement rules that...
The Flying Dutchman is a high-performance, double-handed sailing dinghy originally designed by Uus van Essen in 1951. Characterized by its large sail area, symmetrical spinnaker, and twin trapezes, the boat was engineered to provide demanding tactical and physical racing. It served as an official Ol...
Formula 18 (F18) is an international catamaran class for racing sailboats designed for two-person crews. Established in the early 1990s, the class is defined by specific design parameters including a maximum hull length of 18 feet, a minimum weight, and a maximum sail area, rather than a one-design...
