LIDO 14 



This is another Pacific Coast saiHng dinghy, used both for day saiHng and 

 class racing, a larger edition of the Lehman Interclub and 12, made by 

 W. D, Schock Company (Santa Ana, Calif.). The boats are also built by 

 Hugh Doherty's King Harbor Boats (901 Pier Ave., Hermosa Beach, Calif.). 

 The cockpit with contoured seats accommodates six persons and provides 

 640 pounds of flotation. Construction is of fiber glass. An anodized alumi- 

 num hinged mast, tilt-up mahogany rudder, tiller with extension handle, 

 plastic-covered stainless shrouds, Dacron running rigging, white neoprene 

 gunwall guards are among the design features. 



The first Lido 14 was launched in 1958. There are now eleven hun- 

 dred boats in various parts of the United States, including Hawaii. The 

 waters of Mexico and Canada also see the Lido 14s. There is now a Lido 14 

 Class Association, Inc., "to promote Lido 14 Class racing under uniform 

 rules and regulations to maintain rigidly and without deviation the 

 one-design features of the Lido 14 Class Sloop." Price is $1322 with 

 Dacron sails. 



VITAL statistics: L.O.A. 14'; beam 6'; draft with centerboard 

 up 5", with C.B. down 4'3''; sail area 111 sq. ft.; weight 325 lbs. 



LIGHTNING 



In these days of "molded hot rods," to use an expression of a Lightning 

 Class Association President, it is a pleasure to find a well-balanced all- 

 around boat which isn't a racing machine for acrobats or the nautical equiv- 

 alent of an ice wagon. The 19-foot Lightning is a splendid family boat, with 

 good initial stabiUty, easy to handle and fast enough to provide fine racing 

 under a wide variety of conditions. Good-looking, efficient, and, with her 

 arc bottom and hard chine, easy to construct, she has appealed to so many 

 middle-of-the-road yachtsmen that she has become the largest one-design 

 class of 16 feet or more in the world. Only the 151/2 -foot Snipe class with 

 over 13,500 registered boats is ahead of the Lightning class among all one- 

 design classes of any size, though the surprising 13-foot Enterprise class is 

 about on a par. At the time of writing there are more than eighty-one 

 hundred registered Lightnings in the world, including about six thousand 

 in the United States. 



In 1938 John Barnes of Skaneateles Boats (New York, N.Y.) and several 

 other Skaneateles friends decided to do something about an idea they 

 had. They wanted a boat which would be large enough to hold a half- 

 dozen people comfortably on a day's sail, stiff enough to enable some 



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