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The Nippa is a small Australian dinghy designed by Iain Murray in 2004. The Nippa dinghy was designed for young sailors between five and fourteen years of age, or a young sailor and instructor. It's open back design was to provide easy movement as well as a self-bailing feature.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NippaSailing.com )〕 The company now appears to be defunct. ==History== When Iain and his wife Alex Murray began encouraging their children to sail, they found the resources at their sailing club unfit for a successful learning experience. Many students were exhausted and frustrated by constant capsize recovery and bailing of the old, heavy, often-damaged, and unexciting dinghy fleet they were taught in. Looking for a better design, they set out to "provide children with limited or no sailing experience an enjoyable boat that would deliver great performance, be easy to maintain, simple to store as well as being safe and robust and 'looked cool' too."〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=It's Plain Sailing On Good Ship Nippa )〕 Iain teamed up with Andy Dovell of Murray Burns and Dovell Yacht Designers, Michael Coxon of North Sails Australia, and renowned yachtsman Rob Brown to 'design and build an affordable, modern, safe, innovative, durable, simple and fun one design training class for children'.〔 They developed and launched a prototype which they tested in a variety of conditions, frequently updating and balancing and ultimately arrived at the Nippa design. Nippa began selling in 2004 under the Azzura Marine Group. Touting the simple to rig and simple to sail dinghy for five to fourteen year olds. They marketed it to sailing clubs as buoyant, stable and exciting with hull features that complemented bumpy water and great for developing a training fleet.〔 Ian donated 10 Nippas to the Avalon Sailing Club in 2004 to encourage use.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Avalon Sailing Club Jib Sheet, March 2004 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nippa (dinghy)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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