Sunfish

A simple dinghy with a flat hull and lateen sail that became one of the world’s best-selling sailing boats.

The Sunfish developed from an even simpler sailboard and gained a small cockpit. It has been made in several hundred thousand examples.

Materials: Wood and later fibreglass; lateen-rigged dinghy

Manufacture: Built in the United States.

The flat, board-like hull.

The triangular sail on a short mast.

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