Burgess “Rainbow” Specifications: LOA: 124’67 / 38.9m – LOD: – LWL: 78’74 / 24.99m – Beam: 20’99 / 6.40m – Draft: 14’96 / 4.56m – Ballast: – Displacement: 141 tons – Sail Area: 7,535 sq. ft – Yard Number: – Hull material: Iron Rig: Sloop – Designer: Starling Burgess – Built by: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company …
Team Paradise is a truly unique sailing organization that gives the disabled community an opportunity to sail, whether it is for personal enjoyment, or for more serious training, such as the Paralympic Sailing Events. Located in Miami, Florida, next to Biscayne Bay. It’s an ideal spot for sailing, may it be learning to sail, racing, …
In 1960 when Longshore Club Park first opened in Westport, Connecticut, the town’s Recreation Commission sponsored a public summer boating safety course for children, called Basic Boating. With borrowed boats, and volunteer staff, the students learned safety and seamanship. In 1963 Westport acquired a fleet of 8′ fiberglass sailing dinghies, which established themselves as the …
Conceived in 1947, by Drake H. Sparkman, head of the New York designing firm of Sparkman and Stephens, as a “baby Lightning” one-design, sloop-rigged sailboat. Used in Novice, Teen, and Men’s and Women’s sailing events, and originally constructed in wood, and since the early 1960s in both wood and fiberglass. Total number of boats constructed …
The 420 was designed by French engineer Christian Maury in 1959, after initial specification were drawn by Aristide Lehoerrff and Pierre Latxague, chief sailing instructors of the Centerport sailing school South-West France. An established worldwide performance two-person trapeze and spinnaker racing dinghy which holds status as an ISAF International Class. A total of 56,000 boats …