Talk:420 (dinghy)

message: I have disputed the claim of fair use for :Image:420SailingFlag.jpg; please see the image description page for my reasons. If I am mistaken (which is not unlikely, as I don't really know anything about sailing), kindly correct me. —Bkell (talk) 05:19, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
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message: I first sailed these at university in 1969, not much since early 70's, great boats for teaching people not to be scared of big winds and big seas on the Tay, as mentioned above. 
I propose the following: revisions welcome.
Designed in the 1960's (date, who by?) as an inexpensive general purpose two sail, transom sheeted, non-trapeze dinghy, with modest easily handled sail plan, the class developed rapidly in France, being adopted nationally as a youth trainer. In the late 1960's the class was adopted by a few UK university sailing clubs for training and team racing. The class organisers adopted a policy of "prudent evolution" so as to allow development without making existing dinghies obsolete. The spinnaker, trapeze, mast gate, and centre mainsheet had all been introduced by the early 1970s, as had the 420S (Solo) single hander rig, supposedly being able to race boat-for-boat with the two-handed version. 
The hull's seaworthyness and stability at speed proved to be better than most of its contemporaries, and this together with its modest sail area make it fun to sail in heavy weather and thus an excellent youth trainer, qualities that lead to its adoption for that role by the RYA in the mid 1970's. (date etc?)
The combination of effective class management, the boat's inherent sailing qualities, and prudent evolution have contributed to the classes continuing success.
NOTE: The dinghy is referred to as the "four-twenty" in English, while in France, its country of origin, it is referred to as the "quatre cent vingt" (= four hundred and twenty).  GilesW 16:33, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
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message: Maybe a "little" too big flags for the organising country. 85.217.38.114 (talk) 14:26, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
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