The 18ft Skiff is considered the fastest class of sailing skiffs and the most powerful monhull dinghy. Racing takes place in Australia, Europe and America. The class has a long history of racing in Sydney Harbour, Australia...
Thames Sailing Club is the home of the Rater Association.
Thames A Raters are a unique and exciting class of 3-handed dinghy desiged specifically to perform at maximum speed in a river environment.
The class offers an unusual...
The history of the Extreme 40 may be short, but full of spectacle. Shortly after the first built 40ft carbon fibre catamaran hit the water in 2005, Extreme 40’s debuted in the international racing scene during several stop...
The Illusion is a one-design keelboat, based on a scaled version of Lionheart, the British 12 Metre Class yacht and designed by Jo Richards and Neil Graham in 1981. These peformance single-handed boats offer superb racing in...
The XOD Class is managed by the membership through the Class Association and is strictly one design. Over the years it has achieved a balance between adopting modern rigs and building techniques whilst ensuring the oldest boats...
The MICRO Class was created in 1977, on the initiative of the French magazine "Bateaux" which provided the foundations of a measurement intended to sail in elapsed time on small, easily transportable yachts and without an IOR...
The International Melges 24 Class Association currently incorporates twelve National Melges 24 Class Associations representing owners in North America, Europe and Asia. Any country that establishes a fleet of Melges 24s is entitled...
The National Sonata Association is a society of owners of Sonatas. The aims of the Association are to promote the class, to inform and assist owners, to maintain the integrity of the class rules, to organise sailing competitions...
The Mirror is the classic family sailing dinghy, ideal for both cruising and racing. Many have started their sailing careers in the Mirror, first sailing with their parents then with other juniors. Some have gone onto be champions...
The E-Boat, designed by Julian Everitt, went into production in 1976 and to date there are in the region of 250 E-Boats around the world. She was designed to comply with IOR rules and is basically a 22 feet, four berth trailer/sailer.
The...
The Shearwater Class Association has an enviable reputation for friendliness, and a professional outlook on how the Class should be run. National Championships are held annually, over six days, at a variety of venues in the UK.
There...
The Miracle is an extremely versatile 12ft long, double handed (when raced), symmetrical rigged family racing or cruising dinghy. It can be raced with a wide range of crew weights; competitively using all up weights above 16...
It was in the late 40's that the IYRU (now ISAF) instigated a new modern 2-man international dinghy, the Tornado. She was not a success as there was no leap forward compared to the existing pre-war classes.
The Royal Loosdrecht...
The 2.4 metre class is a boat designed to the Metre Rule that was devised in 1906 and is still in use to day. The rule is a formula into which parameters of the design are inserted and for these boats the resulting maths produces...