12 SQUARE METER SHARPIE
Gunter • Centerboard Dinghy • Built 1931
Dimensions
- LOA
- 19.58 ft
- LWL
- 17.7 ft
- Beam
- 4.7 ft
- Max Draft
- 0.96 ft
- Min Draft
- 3.17 ft
- Displacement
- 510 lbs
- Ballast
- — lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 2.35 (use caution offshore)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 34.3
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 41
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- —
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 137 sq ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Centerboard Dinghy
- Rig Type
- Gunter
- Hull Material
- Wood
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1931
- Last Built
- —
- Number Built
- —
Notes: Selected by Duetscher Segler Vergand in a competition held in 1931. Sailed in the Melborne Olympic Games of 1956. (The gold medal in this event was won by noted Australian sailor, Rolly Tasker). Still raced in a number of fleets around the world (in some cases as variants of the original). In the UK it is the BRITISH SHARPIE or NORFOLK SHARPIE. In Australia called the HEAVYWEIGHT SHARPIE, and beginning in 1960, a modernized version called the AUSTRALIAN LIGHTWEIGHT SHARPIE.