Women's High Performance Dinghy Evaluation Event

Published: Fri 16th February, 2007

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Women's High Performance Dinghy Evaluation Event

Five Boats For Hyères Evaluation Event

In advance of the decision on the ten events for the 2012 Olympic Games, which will be made at the 2007 ISAF Annual Conference this November, the Evaluation Event will look at whether there are suitable boats for a High Performance Dinghy event for a crew of two women.

The Evaluation Event is part of ISAF’s commitment to actively develop sailing at the highest level and keep pace with all the latest developments within the sport. Previous Evaluation Events have led to the adoption of the RS:X board as the new windsurfer for the 2008 Olympic Sailing Competition and the 49er as the first twin trapeze skiff with asymmetric spinnaker in the Olympic Games in Sydney 2000.

Over the past ten years ISAF’s commitment to increase the participation and exposure of women’s sailing has gained the sport an impressive record at the highest level. At the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, the eleven sailing events showed a massive 32% increase in participation by women athletes compared to Sydney 2000, a higher increase than any other sport which previously included women’s events in the programme. With this increase sailing became the ninth most popular sport in terms of participating women athletes, with a 35% representation of women across the fleets in Athens 2004.

The Boats

The five boats for the trials in Hyères are:

29erXX
A skiff one-design design by Julian BETHWAITE which features a carbon mast and double spreads on the existing 29er hull

Cherub Daemon
A skiff one-design, designed by Simon ROBERTS and Richard TAYLOR to fall within the 2005 UK Cherub Class Rules

Carbonology GT60
A project by David CHISHOLM using a design by Paul BIEKER, with the Master plug currently in production

International 14
Established 75 years ago, the twin trapeze skiff is a well known development class

RS800
A skiff one-design designed by Phil MORRISON, with some modifications to the existing RS800 deck mould

 

 

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