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Israel Post issued a single stamp in June 2010 to commemorate the 2010 World Championships for the 420 class yachts that takes place in Haifa from 22 till 31 July 2010.
The 420 class is an established worldwide performance two person trapeze racing dinghy.
Dim. 4.2 x 1.63 m
Sail area; main 10.25 m², jib 2.8 m², spinnaker 9 m².
Bare hull weight 80 kg.
More info on the class is given by Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(dinghy)
The International 420 Class Dinghy is a monohull planing dinghy with centreboard, bermuda rig and centre sheeting. It is designed for a crew of two. The name describes the overall length of the boat in centimeters (the boat is exactly 4.2 meters long).
The International 420 was designed by Christian Maury , after a specification drawn by Aristide Lehoerrff and Pierre Latxague , chief sailing instructors of the Socoa sailing school SW France near St Jean de Luz. It was built at first by french industrialist Lucien Lanaverre, a former cooper for the Bordeaux wine industry, who had converted to the then new industry of GRP polyester moulding.in the 1960s as an inexpensive general purpose two sail, transom sheeted, non-trapeze dinghy, with modest easily handled sail plan. The class developed rapidly in France,...[
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Oilfield emergency support vessel.
Was launched on 6th April 1981, Yard number 1200.
She has six MAN diesels of 28,000 bhp and 2 propellers.
Log Book April 1985.
Great Britain SG1217
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Built as a steel hulled sail training vessel by Interster Elblag S.A. Shipyard in Gdansk for the Polish Yachting Association.
1987 Laid down
August 1990 launched as the ZEW.
Tonnage 180 grt, 54 tons net, dim. 46 x 7.6 x 4.0m.(draught), length of hull 35.50m.
First rigged as a schooner.
One auxiliary diesel engine of 200hp.
1990 Completed.
She made one cruise to the Caribbean under Polish flag and registry in 1990, in search for a charter, but eventually she was sold in 1991 to Kaoru Ogimi Shogakukan Inc, Yasunori Kobayashi at Miura, Japan (Sail Training Association of Japan) and returned to Poland with the same crew under the name KAISEI (meaning Planet of the Ocean) and Japanese flag for a interior remodelling and re-rigging to a brigantine.
She was the first Japanese ship which sailed for Sail Training Association of Japan by means of a private endowment.
Her conversion took first place in Gdansk and later in Weymouth U.K.
As a brigantine she carries 780 square meter of sails.
Crew 9 and 4 volunteer trainees and 32 trainees. On short day trips she can carry 50 passengers.
In 1992 on her maiden voyage of 16th month she took part in the Columbus Regatta, and with an international crew, she was the only vessel in that fleet which was allowed to fly the flag of the United Nations.
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