active fleet at Shoreham, New York, on the north shore of Long Island, 

 where boats are hauled up on the beach, as there is no harbor. Races are 

 also held on Candlewood Lake, Connecticut, to which boats are hauled 

 on trailers. 



Construction is of fiber glass with flotation tank. Price is about $1100. 



VITAL statistics: L.O.A. 14'; beam 5^1"; draft with centerboard 

 down 3V; sail area 120 sq. ft. (spinnaker allowed); weight 250 lbs.; trail- 

 able; racing crew, two. 



GANNET 



The Gannet is a 14-foot centerboard sloop based on the Mark VII Inter- 

 national 14 hull which was designed by Uffa Fox and modified in 1957 by 

 George D. O'Day, who improvised a new deck and more moderate sail 

 plan. The first thirty-one boats were sold to the U. S. Naval Academy at 

 Annapolis, which led to the class growing to over one hundred boats. The 

 boat has been adopted by the Severn River (Md. ) Yacht Racing Associa- 

 tion as its official junior-training-program boat and also is being used for 

 intercollegiate sailing not only at the Naval Academy, but at Yale and 

 Tulane universities. About 110 Gannets have been built to date. 



The boat has a good planing hull but is considered wide and stable 

 enough to be suitable for children as well as college men. For instance, it 

 is five inches wider than several other planing boats of its length. 



The boat is sold by the O'Day Corporation (9 Newbury St., Boston 16, 

 Mass.). She is made of fiber glass. Price is $1248 for new boats; used cost 

 about $950. 



VITAL statistics: L.O.A. 14'; waterline 14'; beam 5^5''; draft 

 without centerboard 6'\ with C.B. down 4'; sail area 125 sq. ft. (spinnaker 

 allowed); weight 300 lbs., trailable. 



GEARY 18 (Formerly Flattie) 



In February 1928 the arrival of the centerboard sloop Flattie ( now Geary 



18) was announced as follows in a Seattle, Washington, paper: "Unsinkable 

 Sailboat Provided for Junior Yachtsmen." The boat was designed by L. E. 

 ("Ted") Geary and is 18 feet long; hence the new name. She is a flat- 

 bottomed adaptation of a Great Lakes racing scow and up to now eleven 

 hundred numbers have been issued in the United States (chiefly on the 

 Pacific and Gulf coasts ) and in Canada. 



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