NIPPER 



Designed by Ray Greene, the 12-foot cat-rigged Nipper hard-chine din- 

 ghy was made of plywood for twenty years but has recently joined the 

 fast-growing fiber-glass contingent. The cockpit "may be made" self-bailing, 

 so evidently that feature isn't standard. The boat has won wide accept- 

 ance, as the number sailing in the United States indicates: twenty-three 

 hundred. Ray Greene & Company (508 South Byrne Rd., Toledo 9, Ohio) 

 is the builder and principal source of information about the Nippers. Saihng 

 activities are principally on the Great Lakes, the East Coast, and Florida. 

 Price with fiber-glass hull and Dacron sail is $847.50, with plywood hull 

 and cotton sail $529. 



VITAL STATISTICS: L.O.A. 12'; beam sV; draft with board up 6", 

 with board down 2'8''; sail area loo sq. ft.; weight 250 lbs.; trailable. 



NORTH HAVEN DINGHY 



On the waters of Fox Island Thorofare off North Haven, Maine, a class 

 of ancient gaff -rigged, high-sided, i4V2-foot dinghies still races during the 

 summer months where Champlain sailed in 1605. They have been doing so 



NORTH HAVEN DINGHIES, the oldest of all one-design classes. Courtesy Samuel C. 

 Slaughter. 



RACING CLASSES 



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