| Flipper | |
| Insignia: | File:Flipper sail badge.png |
| Insignia Size: | 65px |
| Designer: | Carter Pyle and Joe Quigg |
| Location: | United States |
| Year: | 1966 |
| No Built: | 582 |
| Builder: | Newport Boats Mobjack Manufacturing |
| Role: | Children's day sailer |
| Draft: | 2.2feet |
| Displacement: | 800NaN0 |
| Hull Type: | monohull |
| Construction: | fiberglass |
| Loa: | 8feet |
| Beam: | 3.92feet |
| Keel Type: | daggerboard |
| Rudder Type: | transom-mounted rudder |
| Rig Type: | Cat rig |
| Sailplan: | Catboat |
| Sailarea Main: | 37square feet |
| Sailarea Total: | 37square feet |
The Flipper is an American sailboat that was designed by Carter Pyle and Joe Quigg as a daysailer intended for children, first built in 1966.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Named for the period TV series, the boat is sometimes confused with the 1970 Danish Flipper dinghy, sometimes called the Flipper Export, of which 15,000 were built.[5]
The design was built by Mobjack Manufacturing in Gloucester, Virginia and Newport Boats in Newport, California, United States. A total of 582 boats were completed starting in 1966, but it is now out of production.[1] [3] [6] [7]
The Flipper is a recreational sailing dinghy, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. The hull bottom is foam-filled, making it unsinkable. It has an unstayed catboat rig, a nearly plumb stem, a vertical transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller with an extension and a removable daggerboard. The hull displaces 800NaN0 fully-rigged.[1] [4]
The boat has a draft of 2.2feet with the daggerboard extended and 2inches with it retracted, allowing beaching or ground transportation on a trailer or automobile roof.[1]
For sailing the design is equipped with boom vang and a center boom-mounted mainsheet.[1]