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LaserPerformance manufactures many sailboats including: Laser, Sunfish, Bug, Laser Vago, Laser Bahia, Club FJ, Club 420, Z420, Vanguard 15, Dart 16, Funboat and Optimists. [1] They are most well known for the Sunfish and The Laser – a single handed boat which is sailed in the Summer Olympic Games . [2]
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.
The Laser 2 is a sailing dinghy, built predominantly of fibreglass. It has a fractional sloop rig, a raked stem, a plumb transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller with an extension and a retractable daggerboard. It displaces 170 lb (77 kg). The crew can make use of a single trapeze. [3] [4]
Vanguard Sailboats was founded in 1967 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA by Peter and Olaf Harken. The brothers started to gain attention after their sailing hardware was used on boats that won Olympic gold in 1968 , and after Vanguard supplied the Finn class for several countries in the 1976 Olympics .
Pages in category "Sailboat types built by LaserPerformance" ... Laser 3000; Laser 4000; Laser 5000; Laser Pico; Laser Stratos; Laser Vago; S. SB20; Sunfish (sailboat ...
2000 (dinghy) The 2000 (formerly the Laser 2000) is a performance sailing dinghy designed by Phil Morrison and currently sold by RS Sailing. It combines a traditional GRP hull and foam sandwich deck moulding with a modern asymmetric rig including a furling jib, reefing mainsail and single line gennaker hoist system.
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 ...
The Laser Standard or ILCA 7 is a popular one-design class of single-handed sailing dinghy, originally built by Performance Sailcraft Canada. The laser is cat rigged, with a single mainsail and is a simple, light and fast boat to sail. The Laser Standard is the original of the Laser family of dinghies, which also includes the Laser Radial and ...
Laser 28; Development; Designer: Bruce Farr: Location: Canada: Year: 1984: Builder(s) Performance Sailcraft: Name: Laser 28: Boat; Displacement: 3,950 lb (1,792 kg) Draft: 4.98 ft (1.52 m) Hull; Type: Monohull: Construction: Fibreglass, with a Termanto PVC foam hull and deck: LOA: 28.41 ft (8.66 m) LWL: 23.58 ft (7.19 m) Beam: 9.48 ft (2.89 m ...
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 ...