Javelin dinghy
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The Javelin, also called the Javelin 14 and O'Day Javelin is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by Uffa Fox as a one-design racer and first built in 1960.<ref name="Data">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Sherwood">Sherwood, Richard M.: A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition, pages 38-39. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. Template:ISBN</ref>
ProductionEdit
The design was built by O'Day Corp. in the United States. The company produced 5100 examples of the design, but it is now out of production.<ref name="Data"/><ref name="Sherwood"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
DesignEdit
The Javelin is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig with anodized aluminum spars, a nearly plumb stem, a vertical transom, a transom-hung, kick-up rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable centerboard. The hull alone displaces Template:Convert and carries Template:Convert of galvanized steel ballast. A fixed keel model was produced in small numbers and carries Template:Convert of iron ballast.<ref name="Data"/><ref name="Sherwood"/><ref name="DataFK">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The boat has a draft of Template:Convert with the centerboard extended and Template:Convert with it retracted, allowing beaching or ground transportation on a trailer. The fixed keel model has a draft of Template:Convert.<ref name="Data"/><ref name="DataFK"/>
The boat may be fitted with a small outboard motor up to Template:Convert for docking and maneuvering.<ref name="Sherwood"/>
The design is equipped with a lockable storage compartment in the bow and gear lockers under the seats.<ref name="Sherwood"/>
The design has a Portsmouth Yardstick racing average handicap of 111.8.<ref name="Sherwood"/>
Operational historyEdit
In a 1994 review Richard Sherwood described the design as, "a beamy, stable small day sailer. Javelin has an unusually large (nine-foot) cockpit, a gear locker under the seats, and a lockable storage compartment under the deck. She is self-bailing and self-rescuing. The transom is reinforced to take outboards up to eight horsepower."<ref name="Sherwood"/>
See alsoEdit
Similar sailboats