Dinghies

Small boats and the people who learn in them. Optimists, Lasers, Finns, the 470 and the 49er, Moths on foils, club racing, youth fleets and Olympic classes. Capsizing is a normal event here rather than an emergency, and most of the sailors in the rest of this archive started in one of these.

Part of Sailing

121 moments in this segment.

1. 1896 - Kapseizend zeilschip, BI-1896-3962-13. Photographed 1896. Capsizing is a normal event in a dinghy rather than an emergency, which is why the boats are built to be righted from the water by their own crew. It is where most sailors learn what a boat will and will not do.
2. 1915 - Capsizing of the SS Eastland, as witnessed by Satterfield. On July 24, 1915, Bob Satterfield was crossing the Clark Street Bridge on his way to work, when he witnessed the capsizing of the SS Eastland. He watched the rescue attempts, and drew this sketch that morning, while it was still fresh in his mind. It was published on July 27, 1915.
3. 1930 - Tangalooma 18 footer sailing on the Brisbane River, 1930. 1930 when Tangalooma competed. (Decription supplied with photograph). The 18 foot Skiff is the Sydney harbour development class from which Julian Bethwaite drew the 49er, carrying enormous sail area on a light hull with the crew out on trapezes.
4. 1930 - Tangalooma sailing on the Brisbane River, ca. 1930. Photographed under sail, 1930. The 18 foot Skiff is the Sydney harbour development class from which Julian Bethwaite drew the 49er, carrying enormous sail area on a light hull with the crew out on trapezes.
5. 1932 - 21/8/32, inauguration [du] Monument de la Défense à Longwy : [photographie de presse] / [. Photographed under sail, 1932. The dinghy park is where a sailing club actually lives: hulls on trolleys, masts down, boats in class order. The Optimist, the Laser and the 49er between them account for most of the boats a modern racing sailor passes through.
6. 1932 - Yacht sailing on the Brisbane River, 1932. 18 footer which was skippered by Jimmy Mindham. (Description supplied with photograph). The 18 foot Skiff is the Sydney harbour development class from which Julian Bethwaite drew the 49er, carrying enormous sail area on a light hull with the crew out on trapezes.
7. 1940 - Eighteen foot skiff skimming the waves on the Brisbane River. Jenny III, skippered by Norm Wright Jnr. ). Julian Bethwaite developed the 49er from his 18 foot Skiff work, particularly the double handed Prime Computer series. Its Portsmouth yardstick of 740 makes it the fastest two person one design monohull dinghy, and it made its Olympic debut at Sydney in 2000.
8. 1940 - Skiff in full sail on the Brisbane River, ca. 1940. Irene, being skippered by E. Ware. ). Julian Bethwaite developed the 49er from his 18 foot Skiff work, particularly the double handed Prime Computer series. Its Portsmouth yardstick of 740 makes it the fastest two person one design monohull dinghy, and it made its Olympic debut at Sydney in 2000.
9. 1947 - Ardath an 18 footer skiff sailing in Brisbane, 1947. Ardath was an 18 footer owned and possibly built by R. Dath. (Description supplied with photograph). Julian Bethwaite developed the 49er from his 18 foot Skiff work, particularly the double handed Prime Computer series. Its Portsmouth yardstick of 740 makes it the fastest two person one design monohull dinghy, and it made its Olympic debut at Sydney in 2000.
10. 1947 - Champion 18 foot skiff sailing on the Brisbane River, ca. 1947. 1947. Culex, skippered by Lance Watts, was Australian Champion, 1948. ). The 18 foot Skiff is the Sydney harbour development class from which Julian Bethwaite drew the 49er, carrying enormous sail area on a light hull with the crew out on trapezes.
11. 1952 - Charles Currey, Paul Elvstrøm, Rickard Sarby 1952. Photographed under sail, 1952. Individual medal counts for Paul Elvstrøm, Ben Ainslie and Robert Scheidt are not established in the sources used here, so no total is claimed for any of them. What is documented is that Great Britain leads the Olympic sailing medal table with 65 medals including 31 golds.
12. 1956 - Europese kampioenschappen eenmanszwaardboten Loosdrecht, Bestanddeelnr 907-9551. Photographed under sail, 1956. Capsizing is a normal event in a dinghy rather than an emergency, which is why the boats are built to be righted from the water by their own crew.
13. 1956 - Europese kampioenschappen eenmanszwaardboten Loosdrecht, Bestanddeelnr 907-9552. Photographed under sail, 1956. The dinghy park is where a sailing club actually lives: hulls on trolleys, masts down, boats in class order. The Optimist, the Laser and the 49er between them account for most of the boats a modern racing sailor passes through.
14. 1973 - London Dinghy Exhibition. The London Dinghy Exhibition of 29 March 1973 at Crystal Palace, with dinghy and catamaran classes on display and radio controlled model yachts sailed at the show. Crystal Palace National Sports Centre held the exhibition through the 1970s. Movietone films the hall rather than any racing.
15. 1974 - Dinghy Exhibition. Movietone's silent shot list from the London Dinghy Exhibition of 1 April 1974 runs past a National 18, a Tornado catamaran and a Sailaway, then moves to a pool where radio controlled model yachts are sailed by their operators. The exhibition put full-size hulls and models in the same hall. Boats are shown as static displays rather than afloat.
16. 1975 - Dinghy Exhibition. The Dinghy Exhibition of 30 March 1975 shows what is available to a beginner, and the radio controlled yacht is offered to the visitor who wants no water at all. Boat shows of this period were where a first dinghy was chosen, since the classes were sold as much on price as on performance. Movietone plays the contrast between sailor and landlubber for the commentary.
17. 1976 - Model Yachts. Movietone films the Model Yacht Association's centenary regatta on the Round Pond in Kensington Gardens on 15 August 1976. The association was founded a hundred years earlier, in 1876. Pond yachts are sailed by trimming the rig ashore and sending the boat across on one board, so the rig setting is the whole of the skill.
18. 1978 - Dinghy Exhibition. The London Dinghy Exhibition of 26 March 1978, with the small boats of the sailing world on show and a demonstration of skateboard sailing alongside them. The exhibition ran annually and was where classes were launched and buyers compared hulls under one roof. Movietone treats the skateboard as the novelty item.
19. 2005 - Laser standard. Photographed under sail, 2005. The class carries three rigs on one hull: ILCA 7 or Standard at 7.06 square metres, ILCA 6 or Radial at 5.76, and ILCA 4 at 4.7. It was chosen for Atlanta in 1996 as a men's event and the Radial became a women's Olympic class at Beijing in 2008.
20. 2005 - 49er skiff sailing AUS nationals Geelong. Photographed under sail, 2005. Julian Bethwaite developed the 49er from his 18 foot Skiff work, particularly the double handed Prime Computer series. Its Portsmouth yardstick of 740 makes it the fastest two person one design monohull dinghy, and it made its Olympic debut at Sydney in 2000.
21. 2008 - Flying Dutchman NY 2008 trapeze 2. " (description from the photographer). The trapeze hangs a crew member from a wire off the mast so their whole body weight works outboard as righting moment. Both crew are on trapezes in a 49er, cantilevered over the water.
22. 2008 - Glenans raid cata 2008 Hobie Cats on the beach. Catamaran sailboats of the French sailing school Les Glénans, awaiting their turn for the raid Cata 2008, which set sail from the school's base in Marseillan in 2008. Beach catamarans put two hulls, a trapeze and a large sail plan on a boat two people can launch off sand. The Nacra 17 took the type onto the Olympic programme as the mixed foiling multihull for Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028.
23. 2008 - Flying Dutchmans NY 2008 trapeze. Photographed under sail, 2008. The trapeze hangs a crew member from a wire off the mast so their whole body weight works outboard as righting moment. Both crew are on trapezes in a 49er, cantilevered over the water.
24. 2008 - Moth unten Kiel2008. Photographed 2008. The Moth is a development class rather than a one design, originating independently in Australia in 1928 with Len Morris at Inverloch and in the United States in 1929 with Joel Van Sant and Ernest J. Sanders at Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Andy Paterson of Bloodaxe Boats on the Isle of Wight is credited with the first working foiling Moth, Brett Burvill won the 2001 Worlds on surface piercing foils, and every Worlds since 2004 has been won by a foiler. The class recorded a best ten second average of 35.9 knots on 14 May 2014.
25. 2009 - Preparation for schooner race. Photographed under sail, 2009. Capsizing is a normal event in a dinghy rather than an emergency, which is why the boats are built to be righted from the water by their own crew.
26. 2009 - Preparation for schooner race 2. Photographed under sail, 2009. The dinghy park is where a sailing club actually lives: hulls on trolleys, masts down, boats in class order. The Optimist, the Laser and the 49er between them account for most of the boats a modern racing sailor passes through.
27. 2010 - Wroxham Broad capsize practise. A youngster practising righting a dinghy on Wroxham Broad, Norfolk, England. Capsizing is a normal event in a dinghy rather than an emergency, which is why the boats are built to be righted from the water by their own crew. It is where most sailors learn what a boat will and will not do.
28. 2010 - La rade de Cherbourg-en-Cotentin. Photographed 2010. Small plywood and glassfibre classes such as the Mirror, Cadet and Topper carried club and junior fleets through the second half of the twentieth century, doing for Britain what the Optimist did internationally.
29. 2010 - Un groupe d' optimists d' école de voile. Photographed under sail, 2010. Small plywood and glassfibre classes such as the Mirror, Cadet and Topper carried club and junior fleets through the second half of the twentieth century, doing for Britain what the Optimist did internationally.
30. 2010 - Yachts at Bembridge Harbour. Yachts preparing to race at Bembridge Harbour, Bembridge, Isle of Wight. The class carries three rigs on one hull: ILCA 7 or Standard at 7.06 square metres, ILCA 6 or Radial at 5.76, and ILCA 4 at 4.7. It was chosen for Atlanta in 1996 as a men's event and the Radial became a women's Olympic class at Beijing in 2008.
31. 2011-01-14 - Zhik 2011 Moth Worlds- Final Day Highlights. Final day highlights from the 2011 Moth Worlds at Belmont, New South Wales. The International Moth is a development class with almost no restriction beyond length and sail area, which is how it arrived at hydrofoils. By 2011 the whole front of the fleet was foiling.
32. 2011 - Arrecife - Islote de Fermina 04 ies. Islote de Fermina in Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands. The Optimist was designed in 1947 by Clark Mills as a pram buildable from two four by eight foot sheets of plywood, 7 feet 9 inches overall with a 77 pound hull, precisely so that it would be cheap enough to put children in.
33. 2011 - Waterfront Mansion Ocean Avenue Newport Rhode Island and Hobie 16 Sailing Catamaran View. Photographed under sail, 2011. Beach catamarans put two hulls, a trapeze and a large sail plan on a boat two people can launch off sand. The Nacra 17 took the type onto the Olympic programme as the mixed foiling multihull for Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028.
34. 2011 - 49er sail boats. Photographed alongside in port, 2011. Julian Bethwaite developed the 49er from his 18 foot Skiff work, particularly the double handed Prime Computer series, with both crew on trapezes cantilevered over the water. It made its Olympic debut at Sydney in 2000, and the 49erFX with a redesigned rig was selected for Rio in 2016 as the women's class. Its Portsmouth yardstick of 740 makes it the fastest two person one design monohull dinghy.
35. 2012 - Retired U.S. Navy Cmdr. Dennis Ringle, foreground, a sailing instructor, observes Navy ju. Photographed under sail, 2012. The Optimist was designed in 1947 by Clark Mills as a pram buildable from two four by eight foot sheets of plywood, 7 feet 9 inches overall with a 77 pound hull, precisely so that it would be cheap enough to put children in.
36. 2012 - Optimists dans l' avant-port de La Rochelle. Photographed alongside in port, 2012. Small plywood and glassfibre classes such as the Mirror, Cadet and Topper carried club and junior fleets through the second half of the twentieth century, doing for Britain what the Optimist did internationally.
37. 2012 - Weymouth Olympics mens 49er race. Nearest the camera is the Irish boat, but out in front (as they were right through to the finish) are the New Zealanders. Julian Bethwaite developed the 49er from his 18 foot Skiff work, particularly the double handed Prime Computer series, with both crew on trapezes cantilevered over the water. It made its Olympic debut at Sydney in 2000, and the 49erFX with a redesigned rig was selected for Rio in 2016 as the women's class. Its Portsmouth yardstick of 740 makes it the fastest two person one design monohull dinghy.
38. 2012-09-06 - 2012 Zhik Nautica Moth Worlds Crashes and dumps.. Crashes and capsizes from the 2011 Moth Worlds at Belmont, filmed as a compilation. Australians took the first three places at the regatta. A foiling Moth stops dead when a foil ventilates or the sailor's weight moves late, which is what produces the falls.
39. 2012-09-17 - 49erEuroTowerSailing. Tower trapeze sailing in the 49er, filmed on the final day of the 2012 European Championship, credited here to Allan Norregaard and Anders Thomsen. Norregaard and Thomsen took bronze in the 49er at London 2012. Stadium-style courses put the racing close enough to shore for spectators to see the trapeze work.
40. 2012-11-06 - RYA Cadet Sailing National Junior Squad Camp 1/2. The RYA Cadet class national junior squad at a training camp, drawn from club sailors selected into the Junior Racing Programme. The Cadet is a two-person training dinghy designed for children, sailed with a spinnaker, and it feeds sailors into the 420 and 29er. The squad is a step on the RYA's youth pathway.
41. 2013-04-05 - GP14 Spinnaker hoists, gybes and tacking. Spinnaker hoists, gybes and tacks in a GP14. The GP14 is a 14-foot two-person dinghy designed by Jack Holt in 1949 and still raced in numbers. Handling a symmetric spinnaker in a small boat means the pole has to be moved from one side to the other on every gybe.
42. 2013 - Hobie Cat à l'Aber-Wrac'h. Mini trimaran à l'Aber-Wrac'h Île Vierge lighthouse, Brittany, France. Beach catamarans put two hulls, a trapeze and a large sail plan on a boat two people can launch off sand. The Nacra 17 took the type onto the Olympic programme as the mixed foiling multihull for Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028.
43. 2013 - Dinghy Race IYC Vs Symrna 2013. Photographed under sail, 2013. Club and junior fleets are where nearly every sailor in this archive started.
44. 2013 - Dinghy Race IYC Vs Symrna 2013. Photographed under sail, 2013. Neither Guinness World Records nor World Sailing ratifies youngest sailor records, which is why the claims made in junior sailing conflict with one another.
45. 2013-12-08 - Perfect Partners, Price And Solly Strike Gold - 49erFX Highlights. Olivia Price and Eliza Solly of Australia move from second to first to win the 49erFX at the 2013 ISAF Sailing World Cup in Melbourne. Price had taken silver in the Elliott 6m match racing at London 2012. The 49erFX was then new, having been selected as the women's skiff for Rio 2016.
46. 2014-01-29 - Mirror Dinghy Sailing Top Tips - Dropping the Spinnaker - with Shirley Robertson RYA Champion Club. Dropping the spinnaker in a Mirror, with Shirley Robertson coaching the sequence. The Mirror carries a small symmetric spinnaker and the drop has to be finished before the boat reaches the mark. Robertson won Olympic gold in 2000 and 2004.
47. 2014-01-29 - Mirror Dinghy Sailing Top Tips - Stopping - RYA Champion Club - Olympic Medallist Shirley Robertson. Shirley Robertson shows how to stop a Mirror dinghy under control, a manoeuvre needed for picking up a mooring or coming alongside. Stopping is done by letting the sails out until they lose drive, not by steering. Filmed for the RYA Champion Club programme.
48. 2014-01-29 - Mirror Dinghy Sailing Top Tips - Hoisting the Spinnaker - RYA Champion Club - Shirley Robertson. Hoisting the spinnaker in a Mirror dinghy, coached by Shirley Robertson for the RYA Champion Club series. In a two-person boat the helm steers and the crew works the pole, halyard and sheets in a fixed order. The Mirror was designed as a plywood kit boat in 1962.
49. 2014-01-29 - Mirror Dinghy Sailing Tips - Tacking - RYA Champion Club - Olympic Medallist Shirley Robertson. Tacking a Mirror dinghy, with Shirley Robertson breaking the manoeuvre into steps for young sailors. A tack in a small boat is as much about crew movement as tiller work, since the boat is balanced by weight. Part of the RYA Champion Club series.
50. 2014-04-13 - Dinghies Sail For Title (1964). Mirror dinghies race off Plymouth Hoe in 1964, carried down the foreshore and launched before the start. The Mirror was designed by Jack Holt and Barry Bucknell in 1962 as a plywood kit boat with a gunter rig, and it became one of the most numerous dinghies ever built. Pathe picks out Delema, sailed by Linda Cole and her brother John from Chislehurst.
51. 2014-04-13 - Dinghy Racing In Lake Mcilwane (1971). Dinghy racing on Lake McIlwaine, filmed by Pathe in 1971, with sailboats crossing the lake and two boys in a yellow dinghy among them. The lake, now Lake Chivero, is the reservoir above Harare and was the main sailing water for the city. The reel is unnarrated shot material rather than a finished story.
52. 2014-04-13 - National Dinghy Championships (1950). The National 12 foot dinghy championship at Falmouth in 1950, run by the Royal Cornwall Yacht Club, with the start signalled by a miniature cannon. The National 12 is a restricted development class, first raced in 1936, in which hull shape may vary within limits. Pathe films the boats on the beach, the sails hoisted and the fleet away to the first buoy.
53. 2014-04-13 - Dinghies Day Out (1963). Dinghies race from Putney to Tower Bridge and back in the second Tideway race for the Evening Standard Trophy in 1963, with A.P. Herbert among the watchers on the bank. Racing the tidal Thames means working the stream as much as the wind, since the flood and ebb run harder than most boats sail. Pathe films the launch from Putney hard and the fleet under the bridges.
54. 2014-04-13 - \"Darting Dinghies!\" (1940). Men and women pull on waterproofs before the first race of the winter season on Long Island Sound in 1940, sailing small boats in very cold weather. Frostbite dinghy racing began on the Sound in the 1930s and is where winter small-boat racing in the United States started. Pathe's reel is titled Darting Dinghies.
55. 2014 - Chavirage d’un catamaran de sport. Photographed under sail, 2014. Two hulls give form stability rather than ballast stability, so a beach catamaran can carry a big rig on a light hull. The Nacra 17 carries the type on the Olympic programme as the mixed foiling multihull for Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028.
56. 2014 - Chavirage d’un catamaran de sport. A sport catamaran capsized under sail in 2014. Two hulls give form stability rather than ballast stability, so a beach catamaran carries a large rig on a light platform and goes over quickly when the wind gets under it.
57. 2014-11-30 - Kiwi And Austrians Strike World Cup Gold - 49erFX and Women's 470 Highlights. Highlights of the 49erFX and women's 470 at the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Cup Final in Abu Dhabi, where New Zealand and Austria took the golds. The World Cup Final gathered the top-ranked boats from the season's regattas. The 49erFX had been added to the Olympic programme for Rio 2016.
58. 2015-04-03 - LaserPerformance Sunfish: Sailing's Most Popular Dinghy. Ever.. LaserPerformance present the Sunfish, a lateen-rigged board boat that rigs in minutes and can be carried on a car roof. The Sunfish was designed by Alcort in 1952 and is one of the best selling sailing boats ever built. The pitch here is simplicity rather than performance.
59. 2015-06-01 - Top Laser Sailboat / ILCA Dinghy Race Upgrades. West Coast Sailing run through upgrades for a Laser or ILCA, including a Ronstan mainsheet block, aimed at owners racing a boat they already have. The class rules limit what may be changed, so upgrades are confined to a short permitted list. The Laser was designed by Bruce Kirby in 1970 and became an Olympic class in 1996.
60. 2015-06-11 - ISAF SWC 2015 - Racing Day 2 - 49erFX, 470 Women - Weymouth & Portland. Day two of the 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup at Weymouth and Portland, covering the 49erFX and women's 470. Weymouth and Portland was the Olympic venue in 2012 and stayed on the World Cup circuit afterwards. The 49erFX is the women's skiff, introduced for Rio 2016.
61. 2015 - Olympic committee holds test regatta. A week-long test regatta opens in Guanabara Bay on 15 August 2015, a year before the Rio games, with RS-X and Laser classes racing. The venue was under scrutiny after Associated Press testing found dangerously high virus levels from sewage at all the water venues. Test events are run to check race management and the course area before an Olympic regatta.
62. 2015-08-27 - Sailing - Women 470 Final & VC - London 2012 Olympic Games. The full broadcast of the women's 470 medal race at London 2012, sailed on 10 August 2012 off Weymouth and Portland. Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie of New Zealand took gold, with Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark of Britain second. Over an hour of coverage including the presentation.
63. 2015-08-27 - Sailing - 1 race - Men - Finn - London 2012 Olympic Games. The first Finn race of the London 2012 regatta, sailed on 29 July 2012. Ben Ainslie went on to win the class, his fourth Olympic gold and fifth medal. The Finn is a heavyweight singlehander with an unstayed mast and a single sail, and it rewards physical hiking more than any other Olympic dinghy.
64. 2016 - Martine grael e kahena kunze ganham regata final e levam ouro olímpico. Rio de Janeiro - As brasileiras Martine Grael e Kahena Kunze conquistaram o ouro na classe 49er FX da vela dos Jogos Olímpicos Rio 2016, na regata final na Baía de Guanabara (Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil). Sailing was on the programme at the inaugural 1896 Athens Games but the races were cancelled for severe weather, and it has been present at every Games since except 1904. Great Britain leads the medal table with 65 medals including 31 golds, the United States is second with 62 and 19, and Norway third with 33.
65. 2016 - Martine grael e kahena kunze ganham regata final e levam ouro olímpico. Photographed under sail, 2016. The first exclusive women's event came in 1988 and mixed gender competition in 2016.
66. 2016 - Martine grael e kahena kunze ganham regata final e levam ouro olímpico. Rio de Janeiro - As brasileiras Martine Grael e Kahena Kunze conquistaram o ouro na classe 49er FX da vela dos Jogos Olímpicos Rio 2016, na regata final na Baía de Guanabara (Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil). The first exclusive women's event came in 1988 and mixed gender competition in 2016.
67. 2016 - Regata Optimis alla Marina di Goro 01. V. 8th of January 2016. At the 2020 Olympics at least 75 percent of boat-skipper medallists were former Optimist world or continental championship sailors. Class rules put sailors between 7 and 15 years old in the boat, with competitive weights of 35 to 55 kilograms.
68. 2016 - Commodore SWSC. Laser sailing at SWSC with the Commodore. Bruce Kirby and Ian Bruce designed the Laser in 1970, the design beginning in a phone conversation with Kirby sketching on a legal pad, later called the million dollar doodle. It was unveiled at the New York Boat Show in January 1971 and generated 144 orders.
69. 2016 - Regata 49er. Regata classe 49er, Rio 2016. Julian Bethwaite developed the 49er from his 18 foot Skiff work, particularly the double handed Prime Computer series, with both crew on trapezes cantilevered over the water. It made its Olympic debut at Sydney in 2000, and the 49erFX with a redesigned rig was selected for Rio in 2016 as the women's class. Its Portsmouth yardstick of 740 makes it the fastest two person one design monohull dinghy.
70. 2016-08-01 - A wild beast to tame... - Olympic Nacra 17 sailing. The Nacra 17 sailed hard in wind and waves before Rio 2016, where forty athletes raced a twenty-boat fleet. World Sailing describe it as the fastest boat in the Olympic regatta. The Nacra 17 is a mixed-crew catamaran, introduced for the 2016 games.
71. 2016-08-21 - Rio Replay: Nacra 17 Mixed Medal Race. The Nacra 17 mixed medal race at Rio 2016, the class's first Olympic appearance. Santiago Lange and Cecilia Carranza Saroli of Argentina won gold; Lange was 54 and had had part of a lung removed for cancer the year before. The full replay runs the race from start to finish.
72. 2016-11-17 - World Sailing CEO on Rio Olympic clean-up. World Sailing chief executive Andy Hunt tells the Associated Press on 24 May 2016 that Rio must clear Guanabara Bay of rubbish for the Olympic regatta to be fair, saying he sees improvement but stays cautiously optimistic. AP reporting had found high levels of disease-causing viruses from human sewage at every water venue for the games. Floating debris affects a sailing course by fouling foils and rudders.
73. 2017-12-04 - 2017 Zim Sailing C420 Sailing Boat - Walkaround - 2017 Annapolis Sail Boat Show. A walkaround of the Zim Sailing C420 at the 2017 Annapolis Sailboat Show. The Club 420 is a modified version of the international 420 built for American school, college and camp programmes, with a heavier layup and simpler fittings. BoatTube film the deck layout and the rig.
74. 2018-01-12 - Kids Sailing. Children learn to sail on Hove Lagoon, a shallow enclosed water on the Sussex coast. Enclosed lagoons are used for first lessons because there is no tide and a capsized boat cannot drift far. Filmed by Lagoon Watersports.
75. 2018-08-07 - Full Laser Gold Fleet Qualification Race 7 | Aarhus 2018. The complete gold fleet race seven of the Laser class at the 2018 Hempel Sailing World Championships in Aarhus, filmed after an earlier attempt was abandoned. Aarhus 2018 was the combined world championship for all Olympic classes and the first qualifier for Tokyo. Gold fleet racing follows a split of the entry on qualifying series results.
76. 2018-08-12 - Full Laser Medal Race | Aarhus 2018. The full Laser medal race from the 2018 Hempel Sailing World Championships at Aarhus. The medal race is the last race of the regatta, sailed by the top ten with points doubled and no discard. Aarhus was the first qualification event for the Tokyo Olympic regatta.
77. 2019-04-05 - 2019-04-05 - Sailing in Adler - Photo 06. More than 223,000 Lasers had been built as of 2023 and the class is raced in 120 countries, the most widely raced single-handed dinghy in the world. It became the ILCA Dinghy over a trademark dispute, with all new class legal equipment sold under the ILCA name from April 2019. The class carries three rigs on one hull: ILCA 7 at 7.06 square metres, ILCA 6 at 5.76 and ILCA 4 at 4.7. The Laser was chosen for Atlanta in 1996 and the Radial became a women Olympic class at Beijing in 2008.
78. 2019 - Warnemünder Woche Laser-Segelboote. Yachtsmen of the "Laser Europe Cup" are prepared for taking part in the last regatta of the "Laser Europe Cup" during the "Warnemuende Week" 2019 on July 14. More than 223,000 Lasers had been built as of 2023 and the class is raced in 120 countries, the most widely raced single-handed dinghy in the world. It became the ILCA Dinghy over a trademark dispute, with all new class legal equipment sold under the ILCA name from April 2019. The class carries three rigs on one hull: ILCA 7 at 7.06 square metres, ILCA 6 at 5.76 and ILCA 4 at 4.7.
79. 2019 - Sailboat, Zadar (P1080757). 49er sailing in Zadar, Croatia, Zadar, Croatia. Julian Bethwaite developed the 49er from his 18 foot Skiff work, particularly the double handed Prime Computer series, with both crew on trapezes cantilevered over the water. It made its Olympic debut at Sydney in 2000, and the 49erFX with a redesigned rig was selected for Rio in 2016 as the women's class. Its Portsmouth yardstick of 740 makes it the fastest two person one design monohull dinghy.
80. 2019-07-13 - Optimist World Championships, 2019 Antigua - Team race finals.. Team racing finals at the 2019 Optimist World Championship in Antigua, decided by knockout, with defending champions Thailand against Italy. Optimist team racing is four boats a side and is won on combined placings, so boats slow their opponents rather than simply sail fast. The commentary notes teams pushing the rules as far as they will go.
81. 2019-09-15 - How to sail - Capsize a single handed sailboat. How to handle a capsize in a singlehanded dinghy, from getting to the centreboard to bringing the boat up and climbing back in. Singlehanded recovery has no crew to hold the boat head to wind, so the sequence differs from a two-person boat. The method is shown in the water rather than described.
82. 2019-12-11 - VDWS Sailing - How to righten a capsized dinghy. How to right a dinghy that has turtled, meaning turned fully upside down with only the hull and daggerboard showing. Sheeting in too hard or badly distributed crew weight are named as common causes, and once the boat starts to invert the crew must act before the mast is straight down. Turtled boats are harder to recover because the rig fills with water.
83. 2020 - Mälarhöjdens Kanotsällskap.02. Photographed under sail, 2020. The Optimist was designed in 1947 by Clark Mills as a pram buildable from two four by eight foot sheets of plywood, 7 feet 9 inches overall with a 77 pound hull, precisely so that it would be cheap enough to put children in.
84. 2020 - Sailboats @ Internautique de Saint-Jorioz @ Sentier des Roselières @ Lake Annecy @ Saint. Photographed 2020. Beach catamarans put two hulls, a trapeze and a large sail plan on a boat two people can launch off sand. The Nacra 17 took the type onto the Olympic programme as the mixed foiling multihull for Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028.
85. 2020-07-24 - BFDS EP 3 - Fitted Dinghy Racing. The third part of the Bermuda Folklife Documentary Series, first released in 2012, on fitted dinghy racing. The Bermuda Fitted Dinghy is 14 feet long and carries a rig far larger than the hull would suggest, so crew are put over the side or taken off during a race to manage the load. The class has raced in Bermuda since the nineteenth century.
86. 2020-08-05 - HOW TO SAIL - OPTIMIST TACKING - with Double Olympic Medallist Shirley Robertson. Shirley Robertson coaches an Optimist tack, from the sailor's weight movement to the tiller hand. The Optimist is the standard junior singlehander, designed by Clark Mills in 1947, and it is where most Olympic sailors begin. Robertson won Olympic gold in the Europe class in 2000 and in the Yngling in 2004.
87. 2021-02-24 - Ovington ILCA First Look. A first look at the Ovington-built ILCA, from the UK builder approved by the International Laser Class Association and World Sailing in August 2020. Approving new builders was part of the class's move away from a single manufacturer and the renaming from Laser to ILCA. The boat is strictly one-design, so a new builder must match the existing hull.
88. 2021-04-24 - Final Day | ILCA Vilamoura European Continental Qualification Event 2021. The final day of the 2021 ILCA European Continental Qualification Event at Vilamoura, where four nations secured places at Tokyo 2020. Continental qualifiers allocate the last national berths to an Olympic regatta. Over three hours of live coverage produced by Vilamoura Sailing.
89. 2021 - Capsized boat in Mangles Bay, October 2021 01. A capsized boat in Mangles Bay, Rockingham, Western Australia. I suspect the boat capsized during high winds the previous days and is probably a sailing boat. Capsizing is a normal event in a dinghy rather than an emergency, which is why the boats are built to be righted from the water by their own crew. It is where most sailors learn what a boat will and will not do.
90. 2021-07-20 - Nacra 17: The Foiling Beast | Tokyo 2020. The Nacra 17 at Tokyo 2020, a foiling mixed catamaran where both sailors must work together to keep the boat flying. Twenty boats started the Olympic regatta including the defending champions from Argentina. The class went to full foiling after Rio 2016.
91. 2021-08-01 - Laser Radial Women - Sailing | Medal Race Highlights | Olympic Games - Tokyo 2020. Medal race highlights for the women's Laser Radial at Tokyo 2020, where Anne-Marie Rindom of Denmark took gold. Rindom had won bronze in the class at Rio 2016. The Radial is the ILCA 6, the middle of the three Laser rigs.
92. 2021-08-02 - Womens 49er fx | SAILING Final - Highlights | Olympic Games - Tokyo 2020. The women's 49erFX medal race at Tokyo 2020. Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze of Brazil won gold, retaining the title they took at Rio 2016. The 49erFX carries a smaller rig than the men's 49er on the same hull.
93. 2021-08-03 - Finn men - Sailing | Medal Race Highlights | Olympic Games - Tokyo 2020. Medal race highlights for the men's Finn at Tokyo 2020, the last Olympic regatta to include the class. Giles Scott of Britain won gold, defending the title he took at Rio 2016. The Finn was designed by Rickard Sarby in 1949 and had been in the games since 1952.
94. 2021-08-04 - Sailing 470 Men | Medal Race Highlights | Olympic Games - Tokyo 2020. Highlights of the men's 470 medal race at Tokyo 2020, won by Mat Belcher and Will Ryan of Australia. It was the last race the pair sailed together. The 470 was sailed in separate men's and women's fleets at Tokyo for the last time before the mixed event at Paris.
95. 2021-08-04 - Medal Race | Sailing Highlights | Olympic Games - Tokyo 2020. Medal race highlights from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic regatta, sailed at Enoshima. Medal races carry double points and no discard, so a class can change hands on the water. Tokyo was the last Olympics to include the Finn.
96. 2021-08-06 - 18ft Skiff Wild Run | DODGING a Yacht!. An 18ft Skiff runs downwind in a fresh westerly on the Brisbane River in October 2020 and has to dodge a moored yacht. The 18 footer is the oldest and most heavily canvassed skiff class, raced in Australia since the 1890s. Three crew on wings hold a rig far larger than the hull.
97. 2021-09-04 - When Sailboats FLY: Full-Foiling Chaos at the Moth Worlds. Drone footage of the Moth Worlds, with the fleet fully foiling and racing tight. The International Moth is a development singlehander that went to hydrofoils in the mid 2000s and now sails faster than the wind on most points. North Sails film the fleet from directly above.
98. 2021-11-04 - FULL Men's Sailing 470 Medal Race | Tokyo Replays. The men's 470 medal race at Tokyo 2020, where Mat Belcher and Will Ryan of Australia took gold, Anton Dahlberg and Fredrik Bergstrom of Sweden silver and Jordi Xammar and Nico Rodriguez of Spain bronze. It was Belcher and Ryan's last race as a pair. Belcher had already won gold in the class at London 2012.
99. 2022-09-06 - RYA Safety Boat Capsize Recovery - Sailors Perspective. A capsize recovery filmed from the capsized sailor's point of view during an RYA safety boat course, with the boat anchored for the exercise. Most recovery footage is shot from the rescue boat, which is the opposite of what the person in the water sees. The bailer had been removed, so a bucket does the job.
100. 2023-03-02 - How to set up a brand new Element 6 ILCA Dinghy (Laser). Dan Slater rigs a new Element 6 ILCA from the mainsheet ratchet block through the traveller, vang, cunningham, outhaul, rudder fittings and centreboard retainer. Slater sailed three Olympic Games and is a world champion in the class. The ILCA is the Laser under its current name, a one-design singlehander drawn by Bruce Kirby in 1970.
101. 2023-05-28 - INSANE Rio 2016 SAILING RACE - CHAOS on the WATER - UNBELIEVABLE Moments & HIGHLIGHTS!. Race six of the men's Laser at Rio 2016, restored and upscaled. Tom Burton of Australia won the class after a series in which he was outside the medals for much of the week. The Laser fleet at an Olympic regatta runs to around forty boats on one start line.
102. 2023 - Awesome Rio 2016 SAILING RACE - EPIC CONDITIONS - 470 CLASS - REMASTERED IN 4K. Race four of the women's 470 at Rio 2016, upscaled to 4K, sailed in strong wind. The 470 has been an Olympic class since 1976 and for women since 1988. Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark of Britain won the women's 470 at these games.
103. 2023-08-29 - Nacra 17 Medal Race | Allianz Sailing World Championships 2023. The Nacra 17 medal race at the 2023 Allianz Sailing World Championships in The Hague, where Olympic places for Paris were also at stake. Medal race points are doubled and the race is sailed by the top ten only. The Nacra 17 is a foiling mixed catamaran.
104. 2023-08-29 - 470 Medal Race | Allianz Sailing World Championships 2023. The 470 medal race at the 2023 Allianz Sailing World Championships in The Hague. The medal race is sailed by the top ten with points doubled, so the standings can change on the final leg. The 470 is a two-person double trapeze dinghy designed by Andre Cornu in 1963.
105. 2023-09-18 - ILCA 7 Medal Race | Allianz Sailing World Championships 2023. The ILCA 7 medal race at the 2023 Allianz Sailing World Championships in The Hague. ILCA 7 is the largest of the three Laser rigs and is the men's Olympic singlehander. The medal race carries double points and is sailed by the top ten.
106. 2024-03-07 - How to rig a 420 sailboat at JYC. A sixth-grade member of the Jackson Yacht Club demonstrates how to rig a 420, made in early 2022. The Club 420 is the standard American school and college two-person dinghy. De-rigging, the centreboard and the rudder are left out of the walkthrough.
107. 2024-05-28 - Bermuda Fitted Dinghy Races, May 2024. Bermuda Fitted Dinghies race in May 2024, filmed by Bernews. The class is unique to Bermuda and carries an enormous rig on a 14-foot hull, with crew leaving the boat during a race to reduce weight. Bailing is part of the racing rather than a sign of trouble.
108. 2024 - Sailing jo paris 2024 marseille marina 470. Photographed under sail, 2024. The 470 has been an Olympic class since 1976 across several gender configurations, and is on the 2024 Paris and 2028 Los Angeles programmes as both a men's and a women's event.
109. 2024 - Matt WEARN AUSTRALIA OLYMPIC CHAMPION ILCA 7 MARSEILLE JO PARIS 2024 by Eric Salard. Photographed under sail, 2024. The class carries three rigs on one hull: ILCA 7 or Standard at 7.06 square metres, ILCA 6 or Radial at 5.76, and ILCA 4 at 4.7. It was chosen for Atlanta in 1996 as a men's event and the Radial became a women's Olympic class at Beijing in 2008.
110. 2024 - International Moth Class Rindbach Ebensee am Traunsee. Motten (International Moth Class), Rindbach, Ebensee am Traunsee, Österreich. The Moth is a development class rather than a one design, originating independently in Australia in 1928 with Len Morris at Inverloch and in the United States in 1929 with Joel Van Sant and Ernest J. Sanders at Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Andy Paterson of Bloodaxe Boats on the Isle of Wight is credited with the first working foiling Moth, Brett Burvill won the 2001 Worlds on surface piercing foils, and every Worlds since 2004 has been won by a foiler. The class recorded a best ten second average of 35.9 knots on 14 May 2014.
111. 2024-08-02 - Jubilation For Spain In Marseille! 🇪🇸🥇| Sailing Men’s 49er Skiff Highlights | #Paris2024 #Olympics. Highlights of the men's 49er skiff at Paris 2024, sailed off Marseille, where Diego Botin and Florian Trittel of Spain took gold. The 49er has been the Olympic men's skiff since Sydney 2000. Marseille hosted the whole of the Paris regatta.
112. 2024-08-08 - Team GB win GOLD in Sailing 😍 | #Paris2024 #Olympics. British sailors take a gold medal at Paris 2024, filmed at the Marseille venue. Sailing was held entirely at the Marseille Marina, away from the rest of the games in Paris. TNT Sports cut the finish and the reaction on the water.
113. 2024-08-10 - STOP CAPSIZING! How To Gybe A Sailing Dinghy - The Ultimate Guide. A guide to gybing a dinghy without capsizing, covering how to initiate and exit the turn and how to swap sides. It also covers the specific problem of a Laser or ILCA mainsheet catching on the transom during the gybe. Gybing is where most dinghy capsizes happen, because the boom crosses under load.
114. 2025-02-27 - FINAL DAY | PredictWind Moth Worlds | 30 mins of Gold Fleet 🎥. Half an hour of gold fleet racing from the final day of the 2024 PredictWind Moth World Championships, held at Manly Sailing Club on the Whangaparaoa Peninsula in New Zealand and filmed on 9 January. Mattias Coutts and Hattie Rogers were the 2024 world champions. The footage is drone-shot and largely uncut.
115. 2025-03-23 - Sunday Boat Stories: North Haven Dinghy. Mystic Seaport's Sunday Boat Stories takes up the North Haven dinghy, the American one-design class first built in 1887 for summer racing off North Haven, Maine. It is among the oldest one-design classes still raced. A short museum piece on a single boat.
116. 2025-07-28 - Moth World Championship 2025 - Documentary. A short documentary on the 2025 Moth World Championship at Fraglia Vela Malcesine on Lake Garda. Garda's reliable thermal wind makes it one of the most used regatta venues in Europe. Filmed by Icarus Sports for the club and the class.
117. 2025-08-16 - 2025 Optimist World Championship - aftermovie. An aftermovie of the 2025 Optimist World Championship, which opened with its ceremony on 27 June and was run by Jadralni klub Pirat. The Optimist Worlds bring together national teams of young sailors from around eighty countries. The film covers the shore side of the event as much as the racing.
118. 2026-05-07 - 49er Skiff Racing: Pure Speed, Pure Adrenaline | Extreme Skiff Series. A 49er skiff race filmed close up, covering start line positioning, upwind and downwind legs and the capsizes. The 49er carries 38 square metres of sail on a 125 kilogram hull sailed by two on trapezes, and it has been an Olympic class since 2000. Speed on a skiff comes with a narrow margin before the boat goes over.
119. 2026-05-17 - LIVE – FINAL SERIES | 2026 49er, 49erFX & Nacra 17 Worlds – Quiberon, France 🇫🇷. Live coverage of the final series at the 2026 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 World Championships in the Bay of Quiberon, with the top ten in each class racing three times. Seb Menzies and George Lee Rush of New Zealand took the 49er title on this day. Nearly four hours of continuous broadcast.
120. 2026 - Quiberon 2026 N17 002 FRA423. Championnats du monde 2026 de Nacra 17 en baie de Quiberon. The Nacra 17 is the mixed foiling multihull on the Olympic programme for Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028, one of ten sailing events.
121. 2026-08-10 - Bermuda Fitted Dinghy Race - August 9, 2026 - Race 4. Race four of a Bermuda Fitted Dinghy series in Mangrove Bay on 9 August 2026, picked up at the first windward mark of a four-and-three course. All boats are sailing their number two rigs because the air is light. Each dinghy carries several rigs and the choice is made on the morning's wind.