Sail Class Markings
Encyclopedia
| Boat Type | Class Marking | Marking description |
|---|---|---|
| Dragon Dragon (keelboat) thumbThe International Dragon is a one-design keelboat.The Dragon was designed by Norwegian Johan Anker in 1929. In 1948 the Dragon became an Olympic Class, a status it retained until the Munich Olympics in 1972... |
|
Black Arial style capital letter D |
| Enterprise Enterprise (dinghy) The Enterprise is a two-man sloop-rigged hiking sailing dinghy with distinctive blue sails. Despite being one of the older classes of dinghies, it remains popular in the United Kingdom and about a dozen other countries, and is used for both cruising and racing. It has a combination of size, weight,... |
|
Black Arial style capital letter E |
| GP14 GP14 (dinghy) The GP14 is a popular sailing dinghy, with over 14,000 built.The class is active in the UK, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, Sri Lanka and parts of north-eastern USA, and the GP 14 can be used for both racing and cruising. The boat is relatively heavy, but stable, and the weight and the... |
 |
Silhouet of a Bell |
| Mirror | Red Italic Capital letter M on a crescent section of a circle | |
| Redwing Redwing (keelboat) The Redwing is a keelboat originally designed by Charles Ernest Nicholson in 1896 and first raced in 1897. In 1937 the class was redesigned by Nicholson. The minor changes were used to create the 1938 Redwing that can be seen racing both outside Bembridge Harbour and in Poole Harbour on the south... |
White Number on a dark red sail | |
| Rhodes 19 Rhodes 19 The Rhodes 19 is a sailboat, designed by Philip Rhodes and originally manufactured by O'Day. Currently, the Rhodes 19 is built by Stuart Marine Corp. To date, approximately 3500 of the boats have been built.... |
An "R" surrounded by a "19", arranged to fit the contour of a circle | |
| Sonar Sonar Sonar is a technique that uses sound propagation to navigate, communicate with or detect other vessels... |
Six horizontal bars of progressively larger thicknesses, from top to bottom | |
| Thistle Thistle (dinghy) The Thistle is a high performance one-design racing dinghy, also used for day sailing, popular in the United States. The Thistle was designed by Gordon K. Douglass who later designed the Highlander and Flying Scot. Starting in 1945, 4000 boats have now been built. Their construction originally... |
 |
Blue crested green thistle head |
There are many types, or classes of sailing boat.
Many have a distinct marking on the sail.
This is a list of sail markings found on both dinghys and larger boats.