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| Development | |
|---|---|
| Designer | Sandy Douglass |
| Location | United States |
| Year | 1945 |
| No. built | 4,000 |
| Builder(s) | Douglass & McLeod Clark Boat Company W. D. Schock Corp Northwest One Design Great Midwest Yacht Company |
| Boat | |
| Displacement | 515 lb (234 kg) |
| Draft | 4.50 ft (1.37 m) with the centreboard down |
| Hull | |
| Type | Monohull |
| Construction | Fiberglass |
| LOA | 17.00 ft (5.18 m) |
| LWL | 17.00 ft (5.18 m) |
| Beam | 6.00 ft (1.83 m) |
| Hull appendages | |
| Keel/board type | centreboard |
| Rudder(s) | transom-mounted rudder |
| Rig | |
| Rig type | Bermuda rig |
| Sails | |
| Sailplan | Fractional rigged sloop Masthead sloop |
| Mainsail area | 136 sq ft (12.6 m2) |
| Jib/genoa area | 55 sq ft (5.1 m2) |
| Spinnaker area | 220 sq ft (20 m2) |
| Total sail area | 191 sq ft (17.7 m2) |
| Racing | |
| D-PN | 83.0 |
The Thistle is an American planing sailing dinghy that was designed by Sandy Douglass as a one-design racer and first built in 1945.[1][2][3]
- ^ McArthur, Bruce (2020). "Thistle sailboat". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 2 October 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
- ^ McArthur, Bruce (2020). "Gordon K. (Sandy) Douglass 1904 - 1992". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 3 October 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
- ^ Sherwood, Richard M.: A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition, pages 84-85. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. ISBN 0-395-65239-1