THE FLYING DUTCHMAN

This is one on the most elegant and fast monotype & monohull "derive" of the sailing histroy.

Designed at the beginning of fifties by Conrad Gulcher and Uus Van Essen immediatly became famous for its racing properties and 1960 was introduced as Olimpic Class.

Probably it is the boat with the major number of innovation through the moder era, like:

- first boat to use a trapeze gear

- first boat to introduce the genoa

- first to use the spinnaker pole launcher

- Self draining cockpit

And many others

The numbers are also impressive and easily express its racing attitude

Crew  2
LOA 6,06 m

Hull weight 145 kg

Mainsail 10,2 m2

Genoa 8,4 m2

Total 18,6 m2

Spinnaker 21 m2 

STAR SAIL BOAT

This is the first post with which we start to talk about sail boat.Sailing is my former and first passion, before to join the motorbike world.
I don’t know why, but I am sure that sailing is a common passion among bikers.

Anyhow we will start to talk about sailing with the ultra famous, vintage & classic STAR boat.

The Star was designed in 1910 by Francis Sweisguth, with a very modern racing approach, like:
Reduced to a minimum the wet surfaces.
Enlarged to a maximum the air covered surface, with its 26 m2 of sail compared to the boat length
Enough light with approx 650 kg per 6,922 of LOA (length over all) and almost 10 m of mast.

With a crew composed by two person, the STAR become immediately World Class Olympic, and lasted for more than 20 years.

The sharp edges of the hull always impressed me, but I think it is necessary to give some more stability.

In spite the STAR Class is so “aged” the fleet can still count on more than 2.000 active boat in Europe and North America.