Its popularity has seen it become a National Class with fleets throughout New Zealand and Australia. National, Inter-Provincial , and South Pacific championships provide sailors with good close racing, and social events. No part of the boat may exceed 1727mm overall beam. IACC designers Bruce Farr, and Ian Murray being notable examples. A number of our most successful Javelin sailors prefer to build and race Javelins of their own design.
Construction materials are unlimited.
The Javelin is a New Zealand and Australian National Class. The Javelin is the only High-Performance Skiff class sailed throughout the entire country. Javelins are sailed from the bottom of the South Island in Dunedin up to Auckland, and the Bay of Islands. The major centres for Javelin Sailing in New Zealand are Auckland, Tauranga, Napier, Gisborne, Wellington and Otago. Javelins are also sailed in Huntly, Taupo, Levin, Whakatane, Taranaki, Manawatu and Te-Anau.