# List of dinghy classes designed before 1960

The following is a list of dinghy classes designed before 1960.

## Classic one design dinghy and small keelboat classes

| Year | Nationality | Name | Length | Designer | Builder | Origins | Active fleets | Notes |
| 1886 | GBR/IRL | Water Wag | 13 ft 0 in (3.96 m) | Thomas B. Middleton of Shankill Corinthinan Sailing Club | Current builders, various in Ireland, France, Spain and USA. Note: 1900 change to 14ft3ins by James (or Maimie) Doyle from Kingstown | Water Wag Club, Kingstown | Royal Irish Yacht Club, Royal St. George Yacht Club, National Yacht Club, North Shannon Yacht Club | c.104 boats built to date, but newest number is 51. Active club in Dun Laoghaire with up to 31 boats racing every week of the summer season |
| 1896 | GBR/ IRL | Nipper | unknown, less than 12 ft | Cleg Foley of Ringsend | Cleg Foley of Ringsend | Sutton Golf Club and Boat Club, near Dublin | no active fleets | Sailed at Cush Point, now home of Sutton Golf Club. Boats allegedly required a lot of bailing. probably sailed single handed. |
| 1896 (autumn) | GBR/IRL | Droleen | 12 ft 0 in (3.66 m) | Mr. William Ogilvy of Dublin | First nine boats built by Foley of Ringsend. Other boats built by local amateur builders of Bray, Devon boat building school and Galway bost building school, Barna | Bray Sailing Club (founded 1896) | No active fleets | Two new boats built in Bray by amateurs in 2014. |
| 1896 | GBR/IRL | Colleen | L.O.A. 6.71m. | James E. Doyle of Kingstown | Various builders | Dublin Bay Sailing Club | 3 boats Dublin Bay | At least three boats still sailing regularly at local regattas. (long keel plus centreboard) |
| 1896 | GBR/IRL | Cork Harbour One Design | 29 ft 0 in (8.84 m) | William Fife | No current builders | Royal Cork Yacht Club | At least one boat active. |
| 1897 | IRL | Howth 17 Footer | 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m) | W. Herbert Boyd | Various builders | Howth Yacht Club | Howth Yacht Club | About 17 boats actively race weekly. This is a one-design keelboat, and not a dinghy. |
| 1898 | GBR | Seabird Half Rater | 20 ft 0 in (6.10 m) | Mr. Herbert Baggs and Mr. W. Scott Hayward | Lathoms of Hesketh Bank, W.H Rowland & Co., Bangor, W. Roberts & Son, Chester, Hilditch, Carrickfergus, John Crossfield & Co., Conway, Enterprise Small Craft Co., Rock Ferry, A.M. Dickie & Son, Bangor, S. Bond, Rock Ferry, Western Marine, Pwllheli, Kenneth M. Gibbs Ltd., Pwllheli, Wallasey Yacht Club, New Brighton, Philip Winram & Sons, Liverpool, Classic Sailboats, Caernarfon | West Lancs Yacht Club | Wallasey Yacht Club, South Caernarvonshire Yacht Club, Treaddur Bay Sailing Club | 101 boats built to date, 75 survive to this day. 1979 saw recognition by the Guinness Book of Records that the Seabird Half Rater is the oldest OD Class still racing in Britain Fitted with a Centreboard |
| 1906 | GBR | West Kirby Star | 16 ft 9 in (5.11 m) | George Cockshott | 1st 8: Latham of Crossens | West Lancs Yacht Club | West Kirby Sailing Club | Fitted with a Centreboard |
| 1911 | GBR | Thames Estuary One Design (TEOD) | 18 ft 0 in (5.49 m) | F. C. Morgan-Giles | | Alexandra YC Southend on Sea & Essex YC Leigh on Sea | | Gunter rig |
| 1911 | GBR | Yarmouth One Design Class | 20 ft 10.5 in (6.363 m) | Henry Longmore | Theo Smith, Yarmouth, and two by Woodnutts, St. Helens | Solent Yacht Club | Royal Solent Yacht Club, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight | Keelboat. 13 built. originally gaff rigged, adopted Bermudian rig in 1936 |
| 1912 | GBR | International 12 foot dinghy | 12 ft 0 in (3.66 m) | George Cockshott | Various builders in UK, NED, ITL, TUR, JPN. | West Kirby Sailing Club | Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy Turkey, Royal St George YC, IRL and Japan | first one-design racing dinghy to gain international recognition. Used as sailing equipment at 1920 and 1928 Olympic games, and Vintage Games 2018, Copenhagen, DEN. |
| 1913 | GBR | Hamble One Design | 18 ft 0 in (5.49 m) | A R Luke | Luke & Co (Hamble) | Hamble River Sailing Club | Not Active | |
| 1914 | GBR | Lymington SCOW | 11 ft 3 in (3.43 m) | | | | | One of a number of local classes, the 'Solent Scows' (see also Bembridge Scow, etc.) |
| 1919 | GBR | 18 foot dinghy | 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m) | G.L. Watson & Co. | | | | used in the 1920 Summer Olympics as a double handed Olympic class; 18 ft LWL (long keel plus centreboard) |
| 1919 | GBR | Essex One Design (EOD) | 18 ft 0 in (5.49 m) | F. C. Morgan Giles | Cole and Wiggins, Leigh on Sea | Essex YC Leigh on Sea | | Bermudan Rig |
| 1920's | USA | Snowbird (sailboat) | 15 ft 6 in (4.72 m) | plans from Rudder magazine (1921) | Tom Broadway, G.V. Johnson | | | The Snowbird was the Olympic Monotype Class for the 1932 Olympics. See Newport Harbor Nautical Museum, California |
| 1920 | IRL | Shannon-One-Design | 18 ft 0 in (5.49 m) | F. C. Morgan-Giles | Walter Levinge of Creaghduff, Coosan, Kineavy, Ward, Jimmy Furey, Peter Quigley, Eric Goodbody, Liam Maloney, Edwin Brennan, Doughal McMahon, J Jones, Cathy MacAleavy | Lough Ree, Derg & North Shannon Yacht Clubs | Lough Ree Y.C. & Lough Derg Y.C., | Designed as balanced lugger, now Gunter rig, designed for use on the river Shannon and her lakes www.soda.ie c.178 boats built, and over 30 boats compete at regattas annually. |
| 1921 | FRA | French National Monotype 1924 | 16 ft 0 in (4.88 m) | Gaston Grenier | | | | used in 1924 Olympics |
| 1923 | GBR | St Mawes One Design | 18 ft 0 in (5.49 m) | William Francis Peters | 45 | | Active | Note: Ballasted Centreplate Dayboat |
| 1923 | NZL | P-class sailing dinghy | 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m) | Harry Highet | | | | Originally at Onerahi then Tauranga |
| 1924 | GBR | West Wight Scow/ Yarmouth Scow | 11 ft 3 in (3.43 m) | Theo Smith | | | | |
| 1926 | GBR | Hamble Star | 14 ft 0 in (4.27 m) | A R Luke | | | | Active |
| 1927 | GBR | Brightlingsea One Design | 0 ft 0 in (0 m) | Robbie Stone | Stone Shipyard | | | Active |
| 1931 | GBR | Sea View One-Design | 12 ft 0 in (3.66 m) | Major Gordon Fowler/Harry Feltham | V.A. Warren & Son | Sea View Yacht Club | Active at Sea View | over 200 built: largest local one-design fleet on the South Coast of England |
| 1931 | AUS | 12 Square meter Sharpie (dinghy) | 19 ft 8 in (5.99 m) | Kroger Brothers | | | Australia | UK, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal |
| 1931 | Worldwide | Snipe (dinghy) | 15 ft 6 in (4.72 m) | William Crosby | | | Florida West Coast Racing Association | |
| 1931 | GBR | Norfolk Dinghy | 14 ft 0 in (4.27 m) | Herbert Woods | Herbert Woods | Norwich Frostbite SC | NFSC, BASC, NBYC | |
| 1932 | USA | Comet (dinghy) | 16 ft 0 in (4.88 m) | Mr. C. Lowndes Johnson | | Chesapeake Bay | | Originally called the "Crab," then the Star Junior before taking on the name Comet |
| 1932 | IRL | Dublin Bay Mermaid | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) | John B. Kearney | Various | Dublin Bay Sailing Club | Skerries Sailing Club, Foynes Sailing Club, Dublin Bay Sailing Club, Wexford Tennis & Sailing Club | Each year the Mermaid sailors come together at a different venue for a week's racing. |
| 1932 | GBR | British Moth | 11 ft 0 in (3.35 m) | Sydney Cheverton | | | | Active |
| 1934 | USA | Hampton One Design | 0 ft 0 in (0 m) | Vincent Serio | | Hampton YC, Virginia | | |
| 1936 | GBR | Wivenhoe One Design | 15 ft 0 in (4.57 m) | Dr. Walter Radcliffe | Various | Wivenhoe Sailing Club | Wivenhoe One-Design Association | ~19 built, ~16 extant |
| 1937 | GBR | Menai Strait One Design | 20 ft 0 in (6.10 m) | | | | | 17 built, all still extant. Active |
| 1938 | GBR | Firefly | 12 ft 0 in (3.66 m) | Uffa Fox | Fairey Marine & Others | | | Used as single handler at 1948 Toequay Olympic Regatta. Active fleets throughout Uk and IRL. |
| 1938/9 | GBR | Ace (national 18) | 18 ft 0 in (5.49 m) | Uffa Fox | | Whitstable YC | | |
| 1940s | GBR | Fowey River Class | 15 ft 0 in (4.57 m) | Reg Freeman | | | | Active |
| 1945 | USA | Thistle | 17 ft 1 in (5.21 m) | Sandy Douglass | | | | |
| 1945 | IRL | Irish Dinghy Racing Association 14 footer | 14 ft 0 in (4.27 m) | George O'Brien Kennedy | Various builders | by Irish Dinghy Racing association | Active fleets, Dublin Bay, Sutton, Clontarf. | |
| 1947 | UK | Aldeburgh Lapwing | 12 ft 7 in (3.84 m) | | | | Aldeburgh | Active |
| 1949 | Worldwide | GP14 | 14 ft 0 in (4.27 m) | Jack Holt | | | | Active |
| 1950 | GBR | Bembridge SCOW | 11 ft 3 in (3.43 m) | | | | | One of the 'Solent Scow' classes. See also Lymington Scow (1914) and the (Yarmouth) West Wight Scow (1924) cf. Bembridge One Design |
| 1951 | GBR | Axe One Design | 12 ft 3 in (3.73 m) | Jack Drew | Jack Drew | Axe Yacht Club, Axmouth | Axe Yacht Club | Some 20 built up to the 1960s; ~7 extant |
| 1952 | GBR | Hornet | 16 ft 0 in (4.88 m) | Jack Holt | | | | NB: Restricted Class |
| 1956 | GBR | Enterprise | 13 ft 3 in (4.04 m) | Jack Holt | | | | |
| 1966 | GBR | Estuary OD | 18 ft 0 in (5.49 m) | | Thames Structural Plastics and later E.R. Birch, both of Canvey Island | | | Based on Thames Estuary One Design and Essex One Design |
| | | Sandweaver 16 | ~16 ft 0 in (4.88 m) | | | | | based on Blakeney one design, in turm was based on an Uffa ACE 18 |
| | GBR | Yachting World Dayboat | 0 ft 0 in (0 m) | | | | | Active |
| | GBR | Salcombe A Class | 0 ft 0 in (0 m) | | | | | Not Active |
| | | | 0 ft 0 in (0 m) | | | | | |

## Classic development dinghy classes

| Year | Nationality | Name | Length | Designer | Builder | Origins | Active fleets |
| 1898 | GBR | Thames A-class rater | 0 ft 0 in (0 m) | Various | Various | River racing at the end of the 19thC | Thames Sailing Club |
| 1928 | AUS | Inverloch Eleven Footer (Australian precursor to Moth Class | 11 ft 0 in (3.35 m) | Various | Various | Len Morris at Inverloch | |
| 1929 | USA | American Moth Boat | 11 ft 0 in (3.35 m) | Various | Various | Started by Captain Joel Van Sant | Elizabeth City, North Carolina |
| 1972 | Worldwide | International Moth | 11 ft 0 in (3.35 m) | Various | Various | Merged from AUS, USA, NZL and GBR classes | Widely distributed |
| 1996 | Worldwide | International 14 | 14 ft 0 in (4.27 m) | Various | Various | Merged from UK class formed 1923 which became Int 14 in 1927 and AUS class formed late 19thC | Widely distributed |
| 1936 | GBR | National 12 | 12 ft 0 in (3.66 m) | Various | Various | Created by the UK RYA as a cheaper alternative to the 14 ft Class | Widely distributed in GBR |
| 1951 | GBR | Merlin Rocket | 14 ft 0 in (4.27 m) | Various | Various | Merged from the Merlin (1949) and Rocket (1951) Classes | Widely distributed in GBR |
| 1951 | NZL/AUS/GBR | Cherub Class | 12 ft 0 in (3.66 m) | Various | Various | Founded by John Spencer in New Zealand from the Pennant Class. | Widely distributed in GBR and AUS |
| late 19thC | Mainly AUS | 18ft Skiff | 18 ft 0 in (5.49 m) | Various | Various | 19thC AUS | Mainly Sydney area Skiff clubs, a few worldwide. |
| early 20thC | AUS/NZL | 12ft Skiff | 12 ft 0 in (3.66 m) | Various | Various | 19thC AUS and NZL Q Class | Mainly Sydney & Auckland |
| throughout 20thC | GBR | Norfolk Punt | 22 ft 0 in (6.71 m) | Various | Various | developments notably from 1930s, 1953 (Wycche), 1960s(Trapeze), 1970s (Fibreglass), etc. | Active |