in Norway from designs by Herman F. Whiton are used by the Sailboat 

 Training Facility (Suite 2714, 551 Fifth Ave., New York 17, N.Y.), which 

 is sponsored by Mr. Whiton. They will be used for advanced, pre-Olympic 

 training. The rest are scattered along the East Coast with others at Houston, 

 Texas, and Rochester, New York. 



VITAL STATISTICS (approximate): L.O.A. 32' to 33'; waterline 22' 

 to 23'; beam (minimum) 6.23'; draft (maximum) 4.43'; sail area maximum 

 312 sq. ft., minimum 285 sq. ft. (spinnaker allowed); weight maximum 

 about 4520 lbs., minimum about 3857 lbs.; crew of three. 



5-0-5 CLASS 



Some people confuse this class with the 5.5 Meter sloop. They are very 

 different. "The 5-0-5," as Bill Taylor has described it, "is a very light open 

 boat, i6'6" long (or 5.05 meters, hence her name); a centerboarder; open 

 except for a foredeck and side flotation tanks; molded plywood built in 

 England, carrying some 150 feet of sail. She is an extremely fast planing 

 boat, which takes some acrobatics to sail— she depends on the crew hiking 

 out on a 'trapeze' from the mast for stability in strong winds. It was one 

 of these 5-0-5S that won Yachtings One-of-a-Kind series in 1954. " 



The 5-0-5 is an out-and-out racing machine, not a boat for the inex- 

 perienced. Unlike the 5.5 Meter, she is a one-design boat.* She is very light 

 for her size and is trailed easily from race to race. Between races, like many 

 others, she is kept out of the water. 



The affairs of the class are taken care of by the International 5-0-5 Class 

 Yacht Racing Association. At the time of writing, John Isbister (91 Chats- 

 worth Ave., Larchmont, N.Y. ) is Secretary-Treasurer of the American Sec- 

 tion. There are over thirteen hundred boats in the world, of which about 

 a hundred are in the United States. Principal areas of sailing activity are 

 the United States, Mexico, Canada, England, Ireland, France, Switzerland, 

 Australia, Denmark, South America. Construction may be fiber glass and/or 

 wood. Fourteen builders are listed in the American Section Handbook, 

 most of them in England. Fairey Marine, Ltd. (Hamble, England), is one 

 of them. Lucian Laverre (Bordeaux Bastide, France) is another. His boats 

 are imported by the Nautica Corporation (P. O. Box 26, Paramus, N.J.). 



** Some latitude is allowed in choice of rudder shape, centerboard shape (provided it fits in the 

 standard trunk), and the staying arrangements on the mast. 



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