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Development | |
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Designer | André Cornu |
Year | 1963 |
Boat | |
Crew | 2 (single trapeze) |
Draft | 150 mm (5.9 in) 970 mm (3 ft 2 in) |
Hull | |
Hull weight | 120 kg (260 lb) |
LOA | 4,700 mm (15 ft 5 in) |
LWL | 4,400 mm (14 ft 5 in) |
Beam | 1,690 mm (5 ft 7 in) |
Sails | |
Mainsail area | 9.12 m2 (98.2 sq ft) |
Jib/genoa area | 3.58 m2 (38.5 sq ft) |
Spinnaker area | 13 m2 (140 sq ft) |
Racing | |
D-PN | 86.3 |
RYA PN | 973 |
Current Olympic equipment | |
The 470 (Four-Seventy) is a double-handed monohull planing dinghy with a centreboard, Bermuda rig, and centre sheeting. Equipped with a spinnaker, trapeze and a large sail-area-to-weight ratio, it is designed to plane easily, and good teamwork is necessary to sail it well. The name comes from the boat's length of 470 centimetres (4.7 m; 15 ft 5 in).
The 470 is a World Sailing International Class and has been an Olympic class since the 1976 games.[1]