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Squib (keelboat)
A Squib is a type of small racing keelboat designed in 1967 by Oliver Lee as a successor to the Ajax 23.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=National Squib Owners Association: History of the Squib )〕 It is a strict "one-design" class of boat,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Waldringfield Sailing Club: Squib Class )〕 having a length of 5.79m, beam of 1.87m, a sail area of 15.8 sq m (without spinnaker)〔Squib details at (Noble Marine insurance )〕 and a weight of 680 kg (including sails and fittings).〔 The usual crew is two people and the boat can be cruised or raced with a Portsmouth Yardstick of 1129.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Portsmouth Number List 2012 )〕 The Squib has been adopted by the RYA as the National Keelboat and is big enough to race at sea and small enough to be trailed easily behind a family car.〔
==Early history==
Oliver Lee built the prototype Squib in 1967, using cold moulded wood. Following a succession of trials, the prototype was used as a "plug" from which copies of the boat could be built using glass-reinforced plastic construction. The first to be built was launched in June 1968, with sail number 11.〔 Much later the plug was turned into a functioning boat and still sails. During 1968, a further five Squibs were built, and the first fleet began racing at the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club at Burnham-on-Crouch. Over the following few years numbers grew at Burnham and new fleets were formed at Waldringfield, Brixham, Abersoch and Aldeburgh.〔 The Squib was granted national status by the Royal Yachting Association in 1972, when numbers exceeded 300.〔
In 1974, with sail numbers approaching 400, some of Britain's yachting journalists were invited to Burnham-on-Crouch to race Squibs, in an event called the "Squib Symposium". This resulted in raising the Squib's profile with the yachting press. Around this time, the Design Centre (now retitled as the Design Council) decided to put the Squib on its index of selected designs.〔
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