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33-789: The Star World Championship are international sailing regattas in the Star class organized by the International Star Class Yacht Racing Association and sanctioned by World Sailing . American sailor Lowell North has won the most titles, with five titles between 1945 and 1973 and another seven podiums. Brazilian crew Bruno Prada won also five titles between 2007 and 2019. The most crowned skipper-crew combinations are Italian duo Agostino Straulino and Nicolò Rode and Brazilian duo Robert Scheidt and Bruno Prada, with three titles each. Bill Buchan Jr. has three titles, but with different crew. American sailors have won

66-525: A Canadian manufacturer of aircraft from 1928 to 1957 FleetBoston Financial , a financial institution also known as Fleet Bank Fleet Farm , American farm and ranch supply store chain Fleet services , an English motorway service station Fleet (laxative) , brand name for Bisacodyl People [ edit ] Fleet (surname) Moses Fleetwood Walker (1856-1924), nicknamed "Fleet", American baseball player, inventor, and author, credited by some as being

99-405: A few minutes to a few hours. All sorts of sailing craft are used for these races, including keel-boats of all sizes, as well as dinghies, trailer sailors , catamarans , skiffs, sailboards, and other small craft. This kind of race is most commonly run over one or more laps of a triangular course marked by a number of buoys. The course starts from an imaginary line drawn from a 'committee boat' to

132-596: A hamlet Fleet Pond , Hampshire, England River Fleet , subterranean river in London, England Fleet Street , named after the river Fleet Prison , named after the river Fleet Line, named after the river, was the original name for the London Underground Jubillee Line Fleet, Lincolnshire , England Fleet (Kent) , a term for a waterway in the Thames marshes, England The Fleet (Tees) ,

165-560: A number of hours. The longest offshore races involve a circumnavigation of the world. Some of the most famous offshore races are as follows Several fully crewed round-the-world races are held, including: South African yacht clubs organise the South Atlantic Race (the former Cape to Rio race), the Governor's Cup from Cape Town to St. Helena Island, and a race between Durban and Mauritius. Single-handed ocean yacht racing began with

198-416: A pool of motor vehicles Fleet Aircraft , the aircraft manufacturing company Places [ edit ] Canada [ edit ] Fleet, Alberta , Canada, a hamlet England [ edit ] The Fleet Lagoon , at Chesil Beach, Dorset Fleet, Dorset , England, a village and civil parish Fleet, Hampshire , England, a town and civil parish Fleet, Hayling Island , Hampshire, England,

231-910: A section of the River Tees' original route Scotland [ edit ] Water of Fleet , a river in Scotland Fleet Bay, a part of a National Scenic Area within Dumfries and Galloway , Scotland United States [ edit ] Fleet, Kentucky , US, an unincorporated community In business [ edit ] ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies , also known as FLEET, Australian physics research collaboration developing ultra-low-energy electronics Blain's Farm & Fleet , American farm and ranch supply store chain Fleet Aircraft ,

264-580: A sporadic lookout, due to the need to sleep, tend to navigation, etc. Certain races do not fit in the above categories. One such is the Three peaks yacht race in the UK which is a team competition involving sailing, cycling and running. Many design factors have a large impact on the speed at which a boat can complete a course, including the size of a boat's sails , its length, and the weight and shape of its hull. Because of these differences, it can be difficult to compare

297-498: A women's hockey team See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Fleet All pages with titles containing Fleet The Fleet (disambiguation) First fleet (disambiguation) Second Fleet (disambiguation) Third Fleet (disambiguation) Fourth Fleet (disambiguation) Fifth Fleet (disambiguation) Sixth Fleet (disambiguation) Seventh Fleet (disambiguation) 8th Fleet (disambiguation) 9th Fleet Topics referred to by

330-585: Is called a regatta . A Regatta consists of multiple individual races. The boat crew that performs best in over the series of races is the overall winner. There is a broad variety of kinds of races and sailboats used for racing from large yacht to dinghy racing . Much racing is done around buoys or similar marks in protected waters, while some longer offshore races cross open water. Various kinds of boats are used for racing, including small dinghies , catamarans , boats designed primarily for cruising , and purpose-built raceboats. The Racing Rules of Sailing govern

363-454: Is the America's Cup . The tactics involved in match racing are different from those of other races, because the objective is merely to arrive at the finish line before the opponent, which is not necessarily as fast as possible. The tactics involved at the start are also special. Team racing is most often between two teams of three boats each. It involves similar technique to match racing but has

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396-441: The 12 Metre being the most famous due to its involvement in the America's Cup . When all the yachts in a race are not members of the same class, then a handicap is used to adjust the times of boats. The handicap attempts to specify a "normal" speed for each boat, usually based either on measurements taken of the boat, or on the past record of that kind of boat. Each boat is timed over the specified course. After it has finished,

429-509: The 2016 Olympics in Rio, compulsory mixed gender in the event were added for the first time. In addition the following criteria are sometimes applied to events: fleet [REDACTED] Look up fleet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fleet may refer to: Vehicles [ edit ] Fishing fleet Naval fleet Fleet vehicles ,

462-573: The Swiftsure Yacht Race , are actually a group of inshore races of various distances along overlapping courses to allow for different classes and skills. Depending on location, stability and safety equipment requirements will be more extensive than for harbor racing, but less so than for offshore racing. Different levels of requirement for navigation, sleeping cooking and water storage also apply. Offshore yacht races are held over long distances and in open water; such races usually last for at least

495-534: The 1954 and 1955 winning father and son couple Carlos de Cárdenas and Carlos de Cárdenas Jr. The Star was an Olympic class from 1932 to 2012 with the exception of 1976, when it was substituted by the Tempest . The first Star World Championships were held on Central Long Island Sound in 1923 and organised by the Bayside Yacht Club , Washington Yacht Club and Manhasset Bay Yacht Club . Eight boats fought for

528-442: The added dimension that it is the overall scoring of the race that matters. In three on three team racing, this means that the team that scores ten or less points wins. For this reason, many tactics are used to advance teammates to make stable combinations for winning. The stable combinations most commonly sought are "Play one", which is 1-2-anything, "Play two" or 2-3-4, and "Play 4", a 1-4-5 combination. These are generally regarded as

561-420: The best setups to win and the hardest for the opposing team to play offense against. Is managed by World Speed Sailing Record Council Is common to board sports. Both windsurfing and kiteboarding are experimenting with new formats. ‹The template How-to is being considered for merging .›   Harbor or buoy races are conducted in protected waters, and are quite short, usually taking anywhere from

594-455: The boat to be considered a member of that class. Some classes (e.g.the Laser ) have very tight specifications ensuring that there is virtually no difference between the boats (except for age) - these classes are sometimes called strict one-design . In one-design racing all boats must conform to the same standard, the class rules , thus emphasizing the skill of the skipper and crew rather than having

627-415: The box rule. No handicap is then applied. A construction class is based on a formula or set of restrictions which the boat's measurements must fit to be accepted to the class. Resulting boats are all unique, yet (ideally) relatively close in size and performance. Perhaps the most popular and enduring construction formula is The Metre Rule , around which several still popular classes were designed. With

660-521: The conduct of yacht racing, windsurfing, kitesurfing, model boat racing, dinghy racing and virtually any other form of racing around a course with more than one vessel while powered by the wind. The Barcolana regatta of the Italian yacht club Società Velica di Barcola e Grignano is currently the Guinness World Record holder as the "largest sailing race" with 2,689 boats and over 16,000 sailors at

693-414: The designated 'starting' buoy or 'pin'. A number of warning signals are given telling the crews exactly how long until the race starts. The aim of each crew is to cross the start line at full speed exactly as the race starts. A course generally involves tacking upwind to a 'windward' marker or buoy. Then bearing away onto a downwind leg to a second jibe marker. Next another jibe on a second downwind leg to

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726-581: The first African American to play Major League Baseball Other uses [ edit ] Ebbsfleet United F.C. , an English football team whose nickname is "The Fleet" The Fleet series of shared universe science fiction anthologies edited by David Drake and Bill Fawcett Fleet (horse) Fleets , a discontinued disappearing messaging feature of the Twitter platform Wilmington Clippers (1937–1950), an American football team nicknamed "The Fleet" Fleet, an IDE developed by JetBrains Boston Fleet ,

759-504: The handicap is used to adjust each boat's finishing time. The results are based on this sum. Popular handicapping systems include Earlier popular rating systems include IOR and IMS . The majority of sailing events are "open" events in which males and females compete together on equal terms either as individuals or part of team. Sailing has had female only World Championships since the 1970s to encourage participation and now hosts more than 30 such World Championship titles each year. For

792-512: The last mark which is called the 'downwind mark' (or 'leeward mark'). At this mark the boats turn into wind once again to tack to the finish line. The most famous and longest running of these events are: Inshore racing is yacht racing not in protected waters but along and generally within sight of land or from land to nearby islands, as distinct from offshore racing across open water and oceans. The duration of races may be daylight only, overnight or passage races of several days. Some races, such as

825-429: The most championships, 55 editions, followed by Brazilian sailors, with seven titles, and sailors of Italy with six titles and Germany with five. Several winners have family relations with each other, e.g. two-time winner Mark Reynolds and 1971 winning crew James Reynolds , 1992 champion Carl Buchan and three-time winner Bill Buchan Jr. , 1969 winner Pelle Petterson and his son-in-law 1988 winner Paul Cayard , and

858-521: The present-day Velux 5 Oceans Race (formerly the BOC Challenge / Around Alone) and the Vendée Globe . Single-handed racing has seen a great boom in popularity in recent years. There is some controversy about the legality of sailing single-handed over long distances, as the navigation rules require "that every vessel shall at all times maintain a proper lookout..."; single-handed sailors can only keep

891-671: The race across the Atlantic Ocean by William Albert Andrews and Josiah W. Lawlor in 1891; however, the first regular single-handed ocean race was the Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race , first held in 1960. The first round-the-world yacht race was the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race of 1968–1969, which was also a single-handed race with the only winner, Robin Knox-Johnston on Suhaili ; this inspired

924-414: The regatta. Although often both adults and juniors sail the same classes of boat. Fleet races can have anywhere from four boats to hundreds of boats in a race. A regatta must have at least three races to be counted. Each boat's place in each race is added to compile a final score. The lowest scorer wins. In match racing only two boats compete against each other. The best known competition of this type

957-530: The results depend on equipment superiority. This kind of class is most commonly with a brand, as occurs with Laser Performance , RS Sailing , Melges and J/Boats . Popular International Classes include the Optimist , 470 , Snipe and Etchells . A box rule specifies a maximum overall size for boats in the class, as well as features such as stability. Competitors in these classes are then free to enter their own boat designs, as long as they do not exceed

990-446: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Fleet . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fleet&oldid=1245031464 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

1023-408: The skills of the sailors in a race if they are sailing very different boats. For most forms of yacht racing, one of two solutions to this problem are used: either all boats are required to race on a first to finish basis (these groups of boats are called classes), or a handicapping system is used which implements correction factors. Each class has a detailed set of specifications that must be met for

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1056-652: The starting line. The International Olympic Committee recognizes World Sailing (WS) as the world governing body for the sport of sailing yacht racing. It was formed in 1904 as the International Yacht Racing Union and then called the International Sailing Federation until rebranding 2014. Many town yacht clubs maintain their own racing teams for both juniors and adults. Often several yacht clubs will get together to hold events that can include more than 100 entered boats per race making up

1089-514: The trophy and the winner was the yacht Taurus with William Inslee and Robert Nelson of Western Long Island Sound fleet. For the first years, all the championships were held in North America and mostly American sailors participated; the first championships held outside North America were in 1939, in Kiel , Germany. Sailing (sport) On the water, a sailing competition among multiple vessels

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