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Contents
Part 1 – history
1.1 – “The sliding keels that took advantage”: the dawn of the racing centreboarder
1.2 – “Truly as fast as the wind”: catboats and skimming dishes (minor update 30/9/2016) see also Una Reborn
1.3 – “A little too marvelous to be real” – the story of the Una boats
1.4 – The sandbaggers
1.5- The mysterious history of the sharpie (updated 24/8/16)
1.6 – The raincoat boat bed and the shoe-shine missionary – the story of the sailing canoes, the first high performance centreboarders
1.7 – “Skidding over the water” – enter the planing hull
1.8 – “We have written too many obituaries of its victims” – the end of the sandbagger
1.9 – “These little clippers” – from rowing boat to racing dinghy
1.10 – “All built and rigged the same” – the invention of the one design class
1.11 – “Racers in every sense of the word” – the Raters
1.12 – “In every respect a sport suited to our sex” – the women who changed small-boat sailing
1.13- The Seawanhaka Cup
1.14 – “A radical departure” – the scows
1.15 – Introducing the era of nationalism: dinghy sailing in the early 20th century
The era of nationalism explained – sort of
1.16 – “Fox hunting”; Uffa, Avenger and the planing dinghy
1.17 – Thunder, Lightning and the Tali Dogang: the classic racing dinghy and the trapeze.
1.18 – Classic boats through modern eyes.
1.19 – From Kings to bouncing cats – the British development classes
1.20 – the British local classes
1.21- “A great rage for the type” – the first Australian centreboarders
1.22- Painted boats, varnished ships and yellow dogs – the ancestor of the skiffs part 1
1.23 – The skiffs and dinghies of the east coast
1.24 – Fourteens dominant: the early history of southern and Western australian dinghies.
1.26 – Hard chines and one designs.
1.25 – The myths and legends of the 18 Footers
1.26 – “it would be difficult to improve upon them”- the high performance dinghies of the European lakes
1.27 – The sailing scientists of the Renjollen
1.28 – The German one designs
1.29 – Continental drifting – European dinghies to 1945
1.30 – Tuckups and Hikers – the vanished world of the Delaware dinghies
1.31 – “”Of all models and builds”: US one designs 1890-1920
1.32 – “The dinghy centre of the continent”: Canada’s small boats
1.33 – Moths, gangsters and Samuel Pepy’s bathtub – development classes in America
1.34 – the classic US one designs
1.35 – Growing the silver fern: NZ dinghy sailing to 1950
1.36 – A new world of dinghy sailing- the worldwide dinghy explosion (in preparation)
1.37 – Boomtime
1.38 – Boom Boats.
Boom boats Pt 2- The Rascal and the Resistance – the Vaurien puts France afloat
Boom boats Pt 3- Fishy tales.
Boom boats Pt 4 – Moral panics, juvenile delinquints, and the Optimist.
1.39 – Holt and Moore – designing the boom
1.40 “A diabolically ingenious machine” – the Finn
1.41 – Technology, volunteers and the boomtime.
1.42 “This was considered revolutionary” – the Flying Dutchman and the trapeze
1.43 – The 5-Oh
Una reborn
1.44 – Southern Lights – the new breed of Antipodean lightweights
Minor works of great masters – forgotten boats by great designers.
1.XX – “Now is the time to experiment” – the Contender and the new wave of singlehanders (under construction)