SKIMMER
Cat (Marconi) • Centerboard Dinghy • Built 1933
Dimensions
- LOA
- 10.92 ft
- LWL
- — ft
- Beam
- 4.5 ft
- Max Draft
- 1.83 ft
- Min Draft
- 4.5 ft
- Displacement
- 300 lbs
- Ballast
- — lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 2.69 (use caution offshore)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 23.2
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- —
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- —
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 65 sq ft
- P
- 14.92 ft
- E
- 9 ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Centerboard Dinghy
- Rig Type
- Cat (Marconi)
- Hull Material
- Wood planked, single chine
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1933
- Last Built
- —
- Number Built
- —
Notes: Plans appeared in 'The Rudder' (Oct. & Nov. 1933). Although technically the SKIMMER conformed to the MOTH class rules, the primary goal was simplicity in construction at the lowest possible cost. Hundreds were built and according to some accounts, class racing took place on the west coast and elsewhere in the US.
Designer
- William F. Crosby (1891–1953)