Referred to here is the LIS Dinghy (Jolle) though it actually has a small low cuddy containing 2 berths.
There are two other variations on the same hull:
LIS-JOLLENKREUZER’ in 1967, has a small cabin (with 2 berths and a table).
With the LIS-FAMILY, the hull was widened slightly with a longer larger cabin and shorter cockpit.
The cockpit became self bailinng in 1978.
Class rules for the LIS allow the use of 1 trapeze.
Seen mostly in Germany but also exported to Canada. (LIS 500 CRUISER)
Gade Marine is the original and current builder. (www.gade-boote.de)
Rolly Tasker – Germany
Hull: Centerboard Dinghy
Dinghy with pivoting centerboard
The CONGER has it’s origins with the US built (Pearson), Alberg designed HAWK 16, though significantly modified.
An early, light weight,low cost yet high performance dinghy.
The single chine, slab sided hull simplified construction for the amateur builder.
An unfinished, bare hull version was also available.
Though several hundred were built and raced as a class for a few years, it seems to have been eclipsed in favor of the similar but slightly larger SEAFLY, from the same builder which sold in larger numbers and was later offered in fiberglass.
An excellent web site, seaflymemories.com relates in greater detail, what is known of both boats, which today are rarely seen.
Spinnaker: 135 sq.ft.
Other builders:
Zygal Boats
Moores of Wroxham
Successor to the earlier, slightly smaller MAYFLY.
The Seafly web site is exceedingly thorough about the history of the class.
(Number built is a very loose estimate.)
Can be rigged as cat or sloop.
Hull Weight (std. centerboard) 436lbs (198kg)
Sailing Weight (std. Centerboard) 562 lbs (255kg)
Sailing Weight (Ballasted Centerboard) 693 lbs (315kg)
Mainsail – Dacron – with reefing system 118.4 sq ft (11.0m²) reefs to 98 sq ft (9.1m²)
Mainsail – Mylar 118.4 sq ft (11.0m²) reefs to 98 sq ft (9.1m²)
Jib – Dacron 41 sq ft (3.8m²)
Asymmetric Spinnaker 150 sq ft (14.0m²)
Conventional Spinnaker 113 sq ft Symmetric (10.5m²)
Mast – aluminum
Boom – aluminum with single line reefing system
Pivoting GRP centerboard
Ballasted centerboard 143lb
A keel version is also available.
Non-trapeze dinghy rigged with an asymmetric spinnaker. Intended as a slightly more ‘tame’ version of the 49er.
Spinnaker: 23.0 m2
Spinnaker: 225 sq. ft./20.9m2
2 man high performance trapeze dinghy from France (some exported to the UK and Holland?).
It is thought that fewer than 200 were built.
49ER hull with slightly smaller rig for lighter sailors. AKA: FX
Mackay Boats Director, John Clinton, designed the FX rig/sail combination so that it could be retrofitted onto an existing 49er hull. `
Beam with wings removed: 1.76m/5.58′
Mast height 7.5m/24.6′
Mainsail Area 13.8m2/148.5 sq.ft.
Jib Area 5.8m2 /62.4 sq.ft.
Gennaker Area 25.1m2/227.1 sq.ft.
To be sailed as a separate class (from 49ER) in 2016 Olympics.
Spinnaker permitted
Commodore Corp. was located at:
1649 Washington Street
Holliston, MA USA
(no longer in business)
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