Day Sailer (dinghy)

Day Sailer (dinghy)
Day Sailer
An uppercase D with an uppercase S, positioned with the D in the top left corner and the S in the lower left.
Class Symbol
Current Specifications
Crew 2
Type Monohull
Construction Fiberglass
Keel Centerboard
LOA 5.105 metres (16.75 ft)
Beam 1.829 metres (6.00 ft)
Draft 1.143 metres (3.75 ft)
Hull weight 261 kilograms (580 lb)
Mast height 6.858 metres (22.50 ft)
Main & Jib area 13.47 square metres (145.0 sq ft)
Spinnaker area 8.8 square metres (95 sq ft)
Development
Year 1958
Designer Uffa Fox and George O'Day

The Day Sailer (also called the O'Day Day Sailer) is a day sailer for pleasure sailing as well as racing; it is sailed throughout North America and Brazil. Designed by Uffa Fox and George O'Day in 1958, the Day Sailer possesses a 6 foot beam, an overall length of 17 feet, a fiberglass hull and a cuddy cabin. It is able to sleep two, (with more if a tent is added to the boom), and the sloop rig includes mainsail, jib and a spinnaker on an aluminum mast and boom.[1]

Over 10,000 boats have been built, and races are held throughout the year in the USA and Brazil by the Day Sailer Association and its fleets. The Day Sailer was inducted in 2003 into the American Sailboat Hall of Fame.

References

  1. ^ Mason, Charles. "Day Sailer". The American Sailboat Hall of Fame. http://www.sailamerica.com/halloffame/daysailer.asp. Retrieved 25 July 2010. 

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