List of dinghy classes designed before 1960 explained

The following is a list of dinghy classes designed before 1960.

Classic one design dinghy and small keelboat classes

Year Nationality Name Length Designer Builder Origins Active fleets Notes
1886 GBR/IRL 13feet Thomas B. Middleton of Shankill Corinthinan Sailing Club Current builders, various in Ireland, France, Spain and USA. Note: 1900 change to 14ft3ins by James (or Maimie) Doyle from Kingstown Water Wag Club, Kingstown Royal Irish Yacht Club, Royal St. George Yacht Club, National Yacht Club, North Shannon Yacht Club c.104 boats built to date, but newest number is 51. Active club in Dun Laoghaire with up to 31 boats racing every week of the summer season [1]
1896GBR/ IRL unknown, less than 12 ft Cleg Foley of Ringsend Cleg Foley of RingsendSutton Golf Club and Boat Club, near Dublin no active fleetsSailed at Cush Point, now home of Sutton Golf Club. Boats allegedly required a lot of bailing. probably sailed single handed.[2]
1896 (autumn) GBR/IRL 12feet Mr. William Ogilvy of Dublin First nine boats built by Foley of Ringsend. Other boats built by local amateur builders of Bray, Devon boat building school and Galway bost building school, Barna Bray Sailing Club (founded 1896)No active fleetsTwo new boats built in Bray by amateurs in 2014.[3]
1896GBR/IRLColleenL.O.A. 6.71m. James E. Doyle of KingstownVarious buildersDublin Bay Sailing Club3 boats Dublin Bay At least three boats still sailing regularly at local regattas.[4] (long keel plus centreboard)[5]
1896 GBR/IRLCork Harbour One Design29feet William FifeNo current buildersRoyal Cork Yacht ClubAt least one boat active.[6]
1897IRL Howth 17 Footer 24feet W. Herbert BoydVarious buildersHowth Yacht ClubHowth Yacht Club About 17 boats actively race weekly. This is a one-design keelboat, and not a dinghy.[7]
1898 GBR 20feet Mr. Herbert Baggs and Mr. W. Scott Hayward Lathoms of Hesketh Bank, W.H Rowland & Co., Bangor, W. Roberts & Son, Chester, Hilditch, Carrickfergus, John Crossfield & Co., Conway, Enterprise Small Craft Co., Rock Ferry, A.M. Dickie & Son, Bangor, S. Bond, Rock Ferry, Western Marine, Pwllheli, Kenneth M. Gibbs Ltd., Pwllheli, Wallasey Yacht Club, New Brighton, Philip Winram & Sons, Liverpool, Classic Sailboats, Caernarfon Wallasey Yacht Club, South Caernarvonshire Yacht Club, Treaddur Bay Sailing Club 101 boats built to date, 75 survive to this day. 1979 saw recognition by the Guinness Book of Records that the Seabird Half Rater is the oldest OD Class still racing in Britain Fitted with a Centreboard[8]
1906 GBR 16feet George Cockshott 1st 8: Latham of Crossens Fitted with a Centreboard
1911 GBR Thames Estuary One Design (TEOD) 18feet Alexandra YC Southend on Sea & Essex YC Leigh on Sea Gunter rig[9] [10]
1911 GBR Yarmouth One Design Class 20feet Henry Longmore Theo Smith, Yarmouth, and two by Woodnutts, St. Helens Solent Yacht Club Royal Solent Yacht Club, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight Keelboat. 13 built. originally gaff rigged, adopted Bermudian rig in 1936[11] [12]
1912 GBR 12feet George Cockshott Various builders in UK, NED, ITL, TUR, JPN. West Kirby Sailing ClubNetherlands, France, Germany, Italy Turkey, Royal St George YC, IRL and Japan first one-design racing dinghy to gain international recognition. Used as sailing equipment at 1920 and 1928 Olympic games, and Vintage Games 2018, Copenhagen, DEN.[13]
1913 GBR Hamble One Design 18feet A R Luke Luke & Co (Hamble)Hamble River Sailing Club Not Active [14]
1914 GBR Lymington SCOW 11feet One of a number of local classes, the 'Solent Scows' (see also Bembridge Scow, etc.)
1919 GBR 24feet G.L. Watson & Co.used in the 1920 Summer Olympics as a double handed Olympic class; 18 ft LWL (long keel plus centreboard)
1919 GBR Essex One Design (EOD) 18feet Cole and Wiggins, Leigh on SeaEssex YC Leigh on Sea Bermudan Rig
1920's USA 15feet plans from Rudder magazine (1921) Tom Broadway, G.V. Johnson The Snowbird was the Olympic Monotype Class for the 1932 Olympics. See Newport Harbor Nautical Museum, California
1920 IRL 18feet Walter Levinge of Creaghduff, Coosan, Kineavy, Ward, Jimmy Furey, Peter Quigley, Eric Goodbody, Liam Maloney, Edwin Brennan, Doughal McMahon, J Jones, Cathy MacAleavyLough Ree, Derg & North Shannon Yacht Clubs Lough Ree Y.C. & Lough Derg Y.C., Designed as balanced lugger, now Gunter rig, designed for use on the river Shannon and her lakes www.soda.ie c.178 boats built, and over 30 boats compete at regattas annually.[15]
1921 FRA 16feet Gaston Grenier used in 1924 Olympics
1923 GBR St Mawes One Design 18feet William Francis Peters 45 Active[16] [17] Note: Ballasted Centreplate Dayboat
1923 NZL 7feet Originally at Onerahi then Tauranga
1924 GBR West Wight Scow/ Yarmouth Scow 11feet Theo Smith [18]
1926 GBR Hamble Star 14feet A R Luke Active[19]
1927 GBR 0feet Robbie Stone Stone Shipyard Active[20]
1931 GBR 12feet Major Gordon Fowler/Harry Feltham V.A. Warren & Son Sea View Yacht Club Active at Sea View over 200 built: largest local one-design fleet on the South Coast of England[21]
1931 AUS 19feet Kroger Brothers Australia UK, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal
1931 Worldwide 15feet William Crosby Florida West Coast Racing Association
1931 GBRNorfolk Dinghy14feetHerbert Woods Norwich Frostbite SC NFSC, BASC, NBYC[22]
1932 USA 16feet Mr. C. Lowndes Johnson Chesapeake Bay Originally called the "Crab," then the Star Junior before taking on the name Comet
1932 IRL 17feet John B. Kearney Various Dublin Bay Sailing Club Skerries Sailing Club, Foynes Sailing Club, Dublin Bay Sailing Club, Wexford Tennis & Sailing Club Each year the Mermaid sailors come together at a different venue for a week's racing.
1932 GBR 11feet Sydney Cheverton Active
1934 USA Hampton One Design 0feet Vincent Serio Hampton YC, Virginia [23]
1936 GBR Wivenhoe One Design 15feet Dr. Walter Radcliffe Various Wivenhoe Sailing Club Wivenhoe One-Design Association ~19 built, ~16 extant[24]
1937 GBR Menai Strait One Design 20feet 17 built, all still extant. Active [25] [26]
1938 GBR 12feet Uffa Fox Fairey Marine & OthersUsed as single handler at 1948 Toequay Olympic Regatta. Active fleets throughout Uk and IRL.
1938/9 GBR Ace (national 18) 18feet Uffa Fox Whitstable YC
1940s GBR Fowey River Class 15feet Reg Freeman[27] Active [28]
1945 USA 17feet Sandy Douglass [29]
1945 IRL Irish Dinghy Racing Association 14 footer14feetGeorge O'Brien KennedyVarious buildersby Irish Dinghy Racing associationActive fleets, Dublin Bay, Sutton, Clontarf.[30]
1947 UK 12feet Aldeburgh Active
1949 Worldwide 14feet Active
1950 GBR Bembridge SCOW 11feet One of the 'Solent Scow' classes. See also Lymington Scow (1914) and the (Yarmouth) West Wight Scow (1924)[31] [32] [33] cf. Bembridge One Design[34]
1951 GBR Axe One Design 12feet Jack Drew Jack Drew Axe Yacht Club, Axmouth Axe Yacht Club Some 20 built up to the 1960s; ~7 extant [35] [36]
1952 GBR Hornet16feet Jack Holt NB: Restricted Class
1956 GBR Enterprise13feet Jack Holt
1966 GBR Estuary OD 18feet Thames Structural Plastics and later E.R. Birch, both of Canvey Island Based on Thames Estuary One Design and Essex One Design
~16feet based on Blakeney one design, in turm was based on an Uffa ACE 18
GBR Yachting World Dayboat 0feet Active[37]
GBR Salcombe A Class 0feet Not Active[38]
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Classic development dinghy classes

Year Nationality Name Length Designer Builder Origins Active fleets Notes
1898 GBR 0feet Various Various River racing at the end of the 19thCThames Sailing Club
1928 AUS Inverloch Eleven Footer (Australian precursor to Moth Class 11feet Various Various Len Morris at Inverloch
1929 USA 11feet Various VariousStarted by Captain Joel Van Sant Elizabeth City, North Carolina
1972 Worldwide 11feet Various VariousMerged from AUS, USA, NZL and GBR classes Widely distributed
1996 Worldwide 14feet Various Various Merged from UK class formed 1923 which became Int 14 in 1927 and AUS class formed late 19thC Widely distributed
1936 GBR 12feet Various Various Created by the UK RYA as a cheaper alternative to the 14 ft Class Widely distributed in GBR
1951 GBR 14feet Various Various Merged from the Merlin (1949) and Rocket (1951) Classes Widely distributed in GBR
1951 NZL/AUS/GBR 12feet Various Various Founded by John Spencer in New Zealand from the Pennant Class.Widely distributed in GBR and AUS
late 19thC Mainly AUS 18feet Various Various 19thC AUS Mainly Sydney area Skiff clubs, a few worldwide.
early 20thC AUS/NZL 12feet Various Various 19thC AUS and NZL Q ClassMainly Sydney & Auckland
throughout 20thC GBR Norfolk Punt 22feet Various Various developments notably from 1930s, 1953 (Wycche), 1960s(Trapeze), 1970s (Fibreglass), etc. Active[39]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: History - Waterwags. Water Wags. 2017-12-20.
  2. The Yachtsman, 3 Dec 1896
  3. 'Not all at sea' by George O'Brien Kennedy, page 346
  4. http://www.colleenclass.net/history.htm History
  5. http://www.colleenclass.net/plans.htm Plans of the Colleen
  6. https://classicyachtinfo.com/yclass/cork-harbour-one-design/ Cork Harbour One Design
  7. https://hyc.ie/history-of-the-howth-seventeen History of the Howth Seventeen
  8. http://www.classicsailboats.co.uk/4501.html Carvel built wooden boats
  9. Vanessa Bird: Classic Boat Classes
  10. http://www.estuaryonedesign.com/about-the-eod/4593324792 About the EOD: TEOD began at Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex... 1919, Essex Yacht Club of neighbouring Leigh-on-Sea commissioned its own version, the Essex One design... merging into the combined Estuary One Design class at the end of the 1960s
  11. Web site: Yarmouth One design History, at Royal Solent Yacht Club . 2015-03-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402095152/http://www.chris-temple-surveys.co.uk/yod.org.uk/index.php/history . 2015-04-02 .
  12. http://yod.org.uk/index.php/construction Construction
  13. Yachtsandyachting.com
  14. http://www.maritime.je/jesse/4552109902 Friends of Jersey Maritime Museum: Jesse
  15. Ruth Delany & Bunny Goodbody, The Shannon one design class 1922-1999
  16. http://www.stmawesod.org.uk/ St Mawes OD Class
  17. http://www.stmawessailing.co.uk/sailing/fleets/smods.php St Mawes One Design
  18. http://www.yacht-designer.co.uk/page47.html Stuart M Roy The Scow Dinghy
  19. Web site: The Hamble Star at Erith Yacht Club. 2014-04-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140413132750/http://www.erithyachtclub.org/NS-Stars/HambleStar.php . 2014-04-13 .
  20. Web site: Brightlingsea One Design and the Brightlingsea One Design Association . 2013-09-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130703062432/http://bseaonedesign.org/ . 2013-07-03 .
  21. http://www.svod.org.uk/ Sea View One-Design Dinghy
  22. http://www.norfolkdinghy.com/ Norfolk Dinghy
  23. http://www.classicboat.co.uk/class-notes/hampton-one-design/ Vanessa Bird: Hampton One Design
  24. http://www.wivenhoeone.co.uk/home/history-1 Malcolm Goodwin Wivenhoe One Design- A History of the Boats
  25. http://menaistraitonedesign.wordpress.com/ Menai Strait One Design
  26. http://www.msod.org.uk/ Menai Strait One Design: Classic Dayboat racing on the Menai Strait
  27. http://foweygallants.com/about/fowey-river-class/ THE FOWEY RIVER CLASS ONE DESIGN DINGHY
  28. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fowey-River-Class-Association/289689264434923?sk=timeline facebook page for the Fowey River Class Association
  29. Web site: About the Thistle, September 11, 2012; Added by TCA Webmaster . 2014-05-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140508042630/http://www.thistleclass.com/class-info/about-the-thistle . 2014-05-08 .
  30. http://www.IDRA14.ie Welcome to the IDRA14 Class Association
  31. http://www.bemsc.org.uk/sailing/bembridge-scow Bembridge Scow Class
  32. https://bembridgescow.org/ Bembridge Scow (The Solent Scow)
  33. https://www.bembridgesailingclub.org/member-home/afloat/classes/bembridge-scow/ Home > Member Home > Afloat > Classes > Bembridge Scow
  34. https://www.bembridgesailingclub.org/home/afloat/racingclasses/bembridge-one-designs/ Bembridge One Designs
  35. http://www.axeonedesign.com/ Axe One Design Sailing Dinghy
  36. http://www.classicboatclasses.co.uk/axe-one-design/4563511719 CLASSIC BOAT CLASSES: Axe One Design
  37. http://www.ywdb.co.uk/ Yachting World Dayboat Association
  38. Web site: Tim Street, 8th February 2009: Salcombe A Class - Class History at morgangilesyachts.org.uk. 2013-09-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053333/http://www.morgangilesyachts.org.uk/cgi-bin/ships/exec/search.cgi?view=19&template=_publish_listing_class_history.html . 2013-09-21 .
  39. http://www.norfolkpunt.org/ Norfolk Punt Owners Association

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