page_title: Banshee (dinghy)
section_title: Design
hierarchical_section_title: Banshee (dinghy) / Design
caption_attribution_description: English: Banshee Dinghy sailing in light wind
context_page_description: The Banshee, sometimes called the Banshee 13, is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by Richard L. Reid as a one-design racer and first built in 1969.
context_section_description: The boat was derived from the Flying Junior hull design and envisioned by Reid as a mass-market boat, with more appeal for racing than the contemporary Sunfish.
  The Banshee is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with foam flotation, making the boat unsinkable. It has an unstayed catboat rig, with aluminum spars, including a non-rotating mast, a loose-footed, four-batten mainsail, a spooned raked stem, a vertical transom, a transom-hung, kick-up rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable daggerboard. The hull alone displaces 115 lb (52 kg).
  The boat has a draft of 2.75 ft (0.84 m) with the daggerboard extended and 4 in (10 cm) with it retracted, allowing beaching or ground transportation on a trailer or car roof rack.
  For sailing the boat has a boom vang, a Cunningham and an adjustable outhaul. The mast can be pivoted fore and aft, normally raked aft when sailing to windward and adjusted forward when on a run downwind. The mainsail is mounted via a sleeve over the mast and so is not hoisted by a halyard. The daggerboard may be adjusted fore-and-aft to balance the mainsail, when the sail is reefed by rolling it around the mast.
caption: Banshee
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