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Snowbird (sailboat)
The Snowbird is an American sailboat that was initially designed by Willis Reid as a one design racer and first built in 1921. The boat was re-designed by Edson B. Schock in the 1940s and it became a popular junior class.
The boat was used as a one design competition class for sailing at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
The Snowbird is a racing sailing dinghy, with early versions built with wooden hulls and later ones with fiberglass hulls, with wood trim. It has a single sail catboat rig, a spooned plumb stem, a vertical transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable centerboard. The fiberglass version displaces 130 lb (59 kg).
The boat has a draft of 3.00 ft (0.91 m) with the centerboard extended and 4.56 in (11.6 cm) with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water, beaching or ground transportation on a trailer or car roof.
For the 1932 Olympics boats were borrowed from local owners. The rig was modified, with a taller mast and a shorter boom and a new sail design, which was it thought would be better in the higher winds expected at the Olympic venue, Cabrillo Beach, in the Los Angeles Harbor. In later testing the Olympic rigs were found to be slower than the original design and no more were modified to that configuration after the games.
Reid's 1921 design was intended to be an inexpensive wooden boat, constructed by amateur builders. Plans for the boat were published in 1923 in The Rudder magazine. The boat originally had a bird for a sail badge, but this was soon changed to a red letter "S".
Considering that it would make a good children's racing boat, Jim Webster of the Newport Harbor Yacht Club, commissioned a local boat builder, Tom Broadway, to build four examples for $200 each. G.Y. Johnson Boat Works, also of Newport, California also built many. The Douglas Boat and Canoe Company started constructing Snowbirds in 1928. All of these wooden versions varied in construction and weight.
The Snowbird was then selected by the Los Angeles Olympic Games Committee for the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics for single-handed sailing with a modified mast and sail. These sails sported an "O" sail badge.
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Snowbird (sailboat)
The Snowbird is an American sailboat that was initially designed by Willis Reid as a one design racer and first built in 1921. The boat was re-designed by Edson B. Schock in the 1940s and it became a popular junior class.
The boat was used as a one design competition class for sailing at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
The Snowbird is a racing sailing dinghy, with early versions built with wooden hulls and later ones with fiberglass hulls, with wood trim. It has a single sail catboat rig, a spooned plumb stem, a vertical transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable centerboard. The fiberglass version displaces 130 lb (59 kg).
The boat has a draft of 3.00 ft (0.91 m) with the centerboard extended and 4.56 in (11.6 cm) with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water, beaching or ground transportation on a trailer or car roof.
For the 1932 Olympics boats were borrowed from local owners. The rig was modified, with a taller mast and a shorter boom and a new sail design, which was it thought would be better in the higher winds expected at the Olympic venue, Cabrillo Beach, in the Los Angeles Harbor. In later testing the Olympic rigs were found to be slower than the original design and no more were modified to that configuration after the games.
Reid's 1921 design was intended to be an inexpensive wooden boat, constructed by amateur builders. Plans for the boat were published in 1923 in The Rudder magazine. The boat originally had a bird for a sail badge, but this was soon changed to a red letter "S".
Considering that it would make a good children's racing boat, Jim Webster of the Newport Harbor Yacht Club, commissioned a local boat builder, Tom Broadway, to build four examples for $200 each. G.Y. Johnson Boat Works, also of Newport, California also built many. The Douglas Boat and Canoe Company started constructing Snowbirds in 1928. All of these wooden versions varied in construction and weight.
The Snowbird was then selected by the Los Angeles Olympic Games Committee for the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics for single-handed sailing with a modified mast and sail. These sails sported an "O" sail badge.
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