The 12 m
2 Sharpie was a type of
Sharpie designed in 1931 by the Kröger Brothers in Warnemünde, Germany. The peak of the class was in the
1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. To this day, the original design has been preserved, and the class is sailed competitively in the UK, The Netherlands, Germany, and Portugal.
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The European Championships are rotated between these four countries every year.
The term 'Twelve Square Metre' evolves from the original sail area, though on modern sharpies due to modern sail designs has now reached to around sixteen square metres.
12 m2 Sharpie
Past Australian champions to have passed through the ranks include
Sir James Hardy,
John Cuneo,
Rolly Tasker and
John Bertrand. Rolly Tasker won Australia's first sailing medal at the
1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne when he and
John Scott won a silver medal in their 12 m
2 Sharpie.
The 12 m
2 Sharpie is one of the Vintage classes for the
2018 Vintage Yachting Games
The 2018 Vintage Yachting Games was the third post-Olympic multi-class sailing event for discontinued Olympic and Paralympic Classes. The event was held from 16–22 September 2018 on Øresund, Copenhagen in Denmark. The organization of this event ...
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There are still a small number of original sharpies in Australia and Brasil, though they have not been sailed competitively on International level since the 1960s. In Australia, the original 'heavyweight' Sharpie has now evolved into the lightweight
Australian Sharpie.
When racing in a mixed fleet, the 12 m
2 Sharpie has a
Portsmouth number of 1026.
Events
Olympics
References
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Dinghies
Olympic sailing classes
1930s sailboat type designs
Sailboat type designs by German designers
12m² Sharpie
Former classes of World Sailing
