Over the years, dinghy and catamaran sailing has undergone a number of far-reaching changes.
多年来,⼩帆船和双体船航海都经历⼀系列深刻的变⾰。
In the 1930s, Uffa Fox introduced planing dinghies. In the 1960s, the ability to plane to windward was developed. In the 1980s, Julian Bethwaite developed the asymmetric spinnaker and completed the logical gybing- downwind technique. Some of these developments have evolved through lighter equipment and better materials, some through better techniques.
As dinghies have got faster, theory and practice for dinghies, catamarans and windsurfers have merged. High-performance dinghy sailing now takes place in apparent wind, just as it does for high-performance catamarans and planing windsurfers.