pram
Pram or PRAM may refer to: a bulbous growth on senior canines, varying in size, usually benign and painless. If it bursts, it will ooze pus and blood.
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* Pram, Austria, a municipality in the district of Grieskirchen in the Austrian state of ...
Charles McGregor
Charles McGregor (September 1, 1922August 11, 1996) was an American actor, best known for his role as Fat Freddie in '' Super Fly''. McGregor served twenty-eight years in a number of state prisons for two murders.sail training dinghy and yacht tender, first built in 1939. It is now often sailed as a singlehanded one-designracer.
The boat is a development of McGregor's Sabot design, the plans for which were published in ''The Rudder'' magazine in 1939. The design has been widely adapted and other derivations include the
Naples Sabot
The Naples Sabot is an sailing dinghy. The Naples Sabot was designed by Roy McCullough and R.A. Violette and the first two were built in Violette's garage during WW II, although official designs were not made available until 1946. The Naples Sa ...
Moore Sailboats
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W. D. Schock Corp
The W. D. Schock Corporation (usually styled W. D. Schock Corp) is an American boat builder originally based in Newport Beach, California, later in Corona, California and currently located in Santa Ana, California. The company was founded by W ...
in the United States, but it is now out of production. More than 11.000 boats were produced.
Design
The El Toro is a recreational sailing dinghy, with the early versions build of
plywood
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stem
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, a nearly plumb
transom
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* Transom (architecture), a bar of wood or stone across the top of a door or window, or the window above such a bar
* Transom (nautical), that part of the stern of a vessel where the two sides of its hull meet
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, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable
daggerboard
A daggerboard is a retractable centreboard used by various sailing craft. While other types of centreboard may pivot to retract, a daggerboard slides in a casing. The shape of the daggerboard converts the forward motion into a windward lift, cou ...
. Ready to sail it displaces , with the hull alone weighing .
The boat has a draft of with the daggerboard extended and with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water or beaching. It can also be transported on a trailer or automobile roof.
The design has a hull speed of .
Operational history
The boat is mostly sailed on the American west coast and is supported by an active class club that organizes racing events, the ''El Toro International Yacht Racing Association''.
The class has competed in the annual BullShip Race in Sausalito, California, since 1954. The start line is at the Horizons Restaurant dock and the course runs to San Francisco, past Alcatraz Island and the
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St. Francis Yacht Club
The St. Francis Yacht Club is a private sailing club located in San Francisco.
History
Founded in 1927, the Saint Francis Yacht Club (StFYC) was formed when some of the members of the San Francisco Yacht Club decided to move their clubhouse from ...
. Due to the distance, currents and other challenges for these small boats the race is referred to as ''The El Toro TransPac'', a comparison to the Transpacific Yacht Race.
In a 2015 reviewer T. Sitzmann in ''Sail 1 Design'' wrote of the El Toro, that they "are satisfactory tenders and sprightly racers. Junior sailing programs at yacht clubs and municipal sailing classes have developed many fine young El Toro captains. High quality racing programs have kept the interest of these young sailors. Often sailors 'move up' to larger yachts and are frequently recognized as champions. Many return to the lively tactical sailing situations provided by El Toro racing."
See also
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List of sailing boat types
The following is a partial list of sailboat types and sailing classes, including keelboats, dinghies and multihull ( catamarans and trimarans).
Olympic classes
World Sailing Classes
Historically known as the IYRU (International Yacht Racing ...
Naples Sabot
The Naples Sabot is an sailing dinghy. The Naples Sabot was designed by Roy McCullough and R.A. Violette and the first two were built in Violette's garage during WW II, although official designs were not made available until 1946. The Naples Sa ...