12 m2 Sharpie

12 m^2 Sharpie

Class symbol
Name	12 m^2 Sharpie
Boat
Crew	2
Draft	0.96 m (3 ft 2 in)
Hull
Hull weight	230 kg (510 lb)
LOA	5.99 m (19.7 ft)
Beam	1.43 m (4 ft 8 in)
Rig
Mast length	6.80 m (22.3 ft)
Sails
Upwind sail area	12.7 m^2 (137 sq ft)
Racing
D-PN	109
RYA PN	1026
Former Olympic class

The 12 m² Sharpie was a type of Sharpie sailing boat designed in 1931 by the Kröger Brothers in Warnemünde, Germany. The peak of the class was in the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. The original design has been preserved, and the class is sailed competitively in the UK,^[1] The Netherlands,^[2] Germany,^[3] and Portugal.^[4] The European Championships are rotated between these four countries every year.

The term 'Twelve Square Metre' evolves from the original sail area, though on modern sharpies sail designs reach up to around sixteen square metres.

12 m² Sharpie

Past Australian champions to have passed through the ranks include Sir James Hardy, John Cuneo, Rolly Tasker and John Bertrand. Rolly Tasker won Australia's first sailing medal at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne when he and John Scott won a silver medal in their 12 m² Sharpie.

The 12 m² Sharpie is one of the Vintage classes for the 2018 Vintage Yachting Games.

There are still a few original sharpies in Australia and Brasil, though they have not been sailed competitively on International level since the 1960s. In Australia, the original 'heavyweight' Sharpie evolved into the lightweight Australian Sharpie.

When racing in a mixed fleet, the 12 m² Sharpie has a Portsmouth number of 1026.^[5]

Events

Olympics

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1956 Melbourne details	New Zealand Peter Mander Jack Cropp	Australia Rolly Tasker John Scott	Great Britain Jasper Blackall Terence Smith

References

1. "British Sharpie Owners Association". Retrieved 2012-05-17.
2. "Nederlandse 12M SHARPIE" (in Dutch). Retrieved 2012-05-17.
3. "Deutsche Sharpie-Klassenvereinigung" (in German). Retrieved 2012-05-17.
4. "Sharpie Club (Portugal)" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2014-09-01.
5. "RYA Portsmouth Yardstick Scheme 2007" (PDF). Royal Yachting Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 21 August 2012.