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Laser Pico. The Laser Pico dinghy is a small sailboat designed by Jo Richards in the mid-1990s [1] and used primarily for training and day sailing. It can be crewed by one or two children or an adult. Current models come equipped with both a mainsail and a jib, the jib however mainly functions as a training tool and provides little to no ...
A useful analogy to solar sailing may be a sailing boat; the light exerting a force on the large surface is akin to a sail being blown by the wind. High-energy laser beams could be used as an alternative light source to exert much greater force than would be possible using sunlight, a concept known as beam sailing.
Following his "doodle" Kirby developed working drawings that Ian Bruce used to develop the Laser. The plans stayed with Kirby and Bruce until 1970 when One Design and Offshore Yachtsman magazine held a regatta for boats under $1000, called "America's Teacup." After a few sail modifications, the Laser easily won its class.
Laser 3000; Boat; Crew: 2: Hull; Hull weight: 79 kilograms (174 lb) LOA: 4.40 metres (14.4 ft) Beam: 1.46 metres (4.8 ft) Rig; Mast length: 6.02 metres (19.8 ft) (overall) Sails; Mainsail area: 8.60 square metres (92.6 sq ft) Jib/genoa area: 2.94 square metres (31.6 sq ft) Spinnaker area: 12.80 square metres (137.8 sq ft) Racing; D-PN: 83.3 ...
Laser (dinghy) The Laser is a class of single-handed, one-design sailing dinghies using a common hull design with three interchangeable rigs of different sail areas, appropriate to a given combination of wind strength and crew weight. Ian Bruce and Bruce Kirby designed the Laser in 1970 with an emphasis on simplicity and performance.
95.4 [1] RYA PN. 1175 [2] [ edit on Wikidata] The Laser 4.7 or ILCA 4 is a one-design dinghy class in the Laser series and is a one-design class of sailboat. All Lasers are built to the same specifications. The Laser is 4.06 m (13 ft 10 in) long, with a waterline length of 3.81 m (12 ft 6 in). The hull weight is 59 kg (130 lb).