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Development | |
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Designer | Ralph Kuppersmith and Clark Mills |
Location | United States |
Year | 1973 |
No. built | 450 |
Builder(s) | Advance Sailboat Corp. Continental Sailcraft |
Role | One-design racer |
Name | US1 |
Boat | |
Displacement | 190 lb (86 kg) |
Draft | 2.50 ft (0.76 m) with the centerboard down |
Hull | |
Type | Monohull |
Construction | Fiberglass |
LOA | 15.42 ft (4.70 m) |
LWL | 13.50 ft (4.11 m) |
Beam | 4.58 ft (1.40 m) |
Hull appendages | |
Keel/board type | centerboard |
Rudder(s) | transom-mounted rudder |
Rig | |
Rig type | Cat rig |
Sails | |
Sailplan | Catboat |
Mainsail area | 90.00 sq ft (8.361 m2) |
Total sail area | 90.00 sq ft (8.361 m2) |
Racing | |
D-PN | 91.5 |
The US1, sometimes written US 1, is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by Ralph Kuppersmith and Clark Mills as a one-design racer and first built in 1973.[1][2][3]
The design is most likely a catboat-rigged derivation of the Mills-designed Windmill of 1953.[1]