How many singlehanded dinghy classes in the UK

[Rod]

Looking in from the other side of the Atlantic, the UK has a sh**load of active singlehanded dinghy classes, many only raced in the UK. I wonder, with the help of this forum, we could list them up and classify them as International or UK only. My gut feeling is the UK has probably 4-5X the number of singlehanded dinghies as any other country. Let me start........

Laser - Int.
Laser Radial - Int
Finn - Int
OK - Int.
Topper - Int.
Musto Performance Skiff - Int.
International Canoe - Int.
Europe Dinghy - Int.
Int. Moth - Int.
Optimist - Int.

Solo - UK
Streaker - UK
Phantom - UK
Lightning - UK
Comet - UK
Assym Int Canoe - UK
Blaze - UK


Take it away

Rod M.

[JimC]

There are probably hundreds of classes that have been built or attempted to be built, but you probably need some kind of qualification to include a boat on your list... I dunno, maybe, for instance, having n boats at a current National Championship or maybe even having one at all, or number of boats built or what...

These are the UK classes I have on my class stats database, but some of these are not in any way active, although I imagine there's at least a boat or two of all of them sailing somewhere. Of course there are lots of other classes about in the world, I know there are European classes we don't see here, and certainly some in NZ and AUS...

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Beachcomber      ??
Blaze            Mainly GBR, some in Europe?
British Moth     GBR only?
Byte             reasonable International distribution
Comet            GBR only?
Comet Zero       GBR only?
Concept 302      ~ extinct, Europe?
Contender        International
Europe           International
Finn             International
Flash            Mainly in Europe
Fusion.          ??
Harrier          ~ extinct but were GBR only?
Hit 14           ??
I Canoe          reasonable International distribution
I Canoe+kite     Mainly GBR, some overseas
I Moth           International
Laser            International
Laser Bug        ??
Laser Eps        ~extinct, but were GBR only?
Laser Pico       not sure
Lightning 368    GBR only?
Lymington Pram   GBR only?
Lymington Scow   GBR only?
Man o'War        ??
Megabyte         most in North America?
Musto Skiff      reasonable International distribution
MX-Ray           ~Extinct, but were in several countries
OK               International
O'pen Bic        Presumably reasonably International
Optimist         International
Phantom          Mainly GBR, some Europe and RSA
Pisces           ??
RS Tera          GBR only?
Rs Vareo         some overseas?
RS300            GBR only?
RS600            some overseas?
RS600ff          GBR only?
RS700            not sure
Solo             GBR, AUS, NED
Solution         GBR only?
Splash           Mainly in Europe
Std Radial & 4.7) 
Streaker         GBR only?
Supernova        GBR only?
Taz              GBR only?
Tonic            ~ extinct but were GBR only?
Topper           International (just!)
Toy              ~ extinct but were GBR only?
Vortex           GBR only?
Zoom 8           Mainly in Europe

[Nigel]

Unsurprisingly none of the single handers I have owned appear on these lists:

Beachcomber
Harrier
Hit 14
Man o'War
Megabyte
Pisces

Nigel

[Nessa]

no Bonitos either!

Laser Bug

[Nigel]

Rupert's Tonic

[jon711]

As an aside, as it's not really a classic, but there are Blaze fleets in France and The Netherlands, and also soon to appear in South America.... It may primarily be a UK class but the word is spreading....

Jon

[Nessa]

There are streakers in The Netherlands too.

I saw a lot of Splash dinghies last time I was there. Certainly more there than here.

Fusion.

edit: I see Jim has Splash on his list.

[Nigel]

Angela's Concept 302

[JimC]

updated my list for those mentioned, but am unsure of distribution of some...

[jon711]

The Splash is a popular junior boat on the Norfolk Broads, it may be geographically in Europe, not sure it is culturally!! Even at Oulton Week we have been known to have a fleet of ten boats competing!!

[Ancient Geek]

No mention of the "Foxer" a niche singlehander a gentlepersons conveyance some of which must be CVRDA eligible by now! Big classes in Denmark and on the Hamble.

[davidh]

and now you can add...

Devoti D-One
RS100
Halo
Project X

then

missing from the lists so far

Sea-bat

and hey - what is this???????????

NO mention of single handed cats - of which there have been plenty!!

D

[Brookesy]

Mark, still a couple around
Minisail, lots on ebay it seems, and a couple on here.

[davidh]

Brooksey

good one.... and that leads us on to the Fly, the trainer for a trainer

Wasn't there a 'sea skate' too?

D

[DavidC]

Ok, lets add,
"A" Class,
Australis
Unicorn
Shadow
Hobie FX one lots of Hobie's have a S/H version
Hobie 14
Topper Topaz 14 XTREME
Catapult
Dart 15 or whatever it is called now Sprint?
Nacra Inter17


Piccolo
Foil
Gremlin?
Topper Topaz Uno and Topper Topaz Uno Race
Unit
Shooting Star - if only we find that one!
Nymph
Aqua-bat?

International 2.4
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