The Hilbre One Design is a British
trailerable sailboat that was designed by
Alan Buchanan as a
one design racer, specifically for the West Kirby Sailing Club in northwest England and first built in 1958.
Production
The design has been built in the
United Kingdom since 1958, with 55 boats completed.
Design
The Hilbre One Design is a racing
keelboat, built predominantly of
wood with
clinker
Clinker may refer to:
*Clinker (boat building), construction method for wooden boats
*Clinker (waste), waste from industrial processes
*Clinker (cement), a kilned then quenched cement product
* ''Clinkers'' (album), a 1978 album by saxophonist St ...
construction. It has a
fractional sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...
rig, a spooned
raked stem, a plumb
transom
Transom may refer to:
* Transom (architecture), a bar of wood or stone across the top of a door or window, or the window above such a bar
* Transom (nautical), that part of the stern of a vessel where the two sides of its hull meet
* Operation Tran ...
, a transom-hung
rudder controlled by a
tiller and a fixed stub
keel with a retractable
centreboard. It displaces and carries of iron ballast.
The boat has a draft of with the centerboard extended and with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water or ground transportation on a
trailer.
For downwind sailing the design is equipped with a
spinnaker
A spinnaker is a sail designed specifically for sailing off the wind on courses between a reach (wind at 90° to the course) to downwind (course in the same direction as the wind). Spinnakers are constructed of lightweight fabric, usually n ...
.
See also
*
List of sailing boat types
The following is a partial list of sailboat types and sailing classes, including keelboats, dinghies and multihull ( catamarans and trimarans).
Olympic classes
World Sailing Classes
Historically known as the IYRU (International Yacht Racing ...
References
External links
* archives on
archive.orgPhoto of a Hilbre One Design
{{Trailer sailers and Trailer yachts worldwide
Keelboats
1950s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
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Sailboat type designs by Alan Buchanan
Sailboat types built in the United Kingdom
One-design sailing classes