Key facts
- Location
- International
- Design
- One-Design
- Name
- Optimist
- Draft
- 5 in (130 mm), 2 ft 9 in (0.84 m)
- Type
- Monohull
- Construction
- Fibreglass
- Hull weight
- 77 lb (35 kg)
- Loa
- 7 ft 9 in (2.36 m)
- Lwl
- 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m)
- Beam
- 3 ft 8 in (1.12 m)
- Keel board type
- daggerboard
- Rig type
- Sprit-rigged
- Mast length
- 7 ft 5 in (2.26 m)
- Mainsail area
- 35 ft (3.3 m )
- Jib genoa area
- None
- Spinnaker area
- None
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Optimist Fleet of Optimists Typical Optimist storage Rigging on shore Optimist dinghies waiting to a wind The Optimist, also known as Opti, is a small, single-handed sailing dinghy intended for use by young people up to the age of 15.
The Optimist is one of the two most celebrated sailing dinghies in the world, with over 150,000 boats officially registered with the class and many more built but never registered. It is sailed in over 120 countries and it is one of only two sailboats as an International Class by World Sailing exclusively for sailors under 16.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Optimist” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.