Double-handed sailing dinghy International 470

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Harnessing technical, tactical and athletic performance, all in one package. Since our first build in 1993, a Mackay built 470 has helped produce Olympic glory and world champion sailors year on year. The 470 is a light and narrow boat (length 4.7m and beam 1.7m with a weight of 120kg), that responds easily and immediately to body movement. The skipper is normally smaller and lighter (1.65m to 1.8m and 55kg to 65kg) and the crew is taller (1.75m to 1.85m yet only 65kg -75kg). The crew's build lets him or her hang far out on the trapeze to keep the boat level in all conditions. Since our first build in 1993, a Mackay built 470 has helped produce Olympic glory and world champion sailors year on year. Over the years we have refined our knowledge on what makes this boat go fast. The Hull Our boats have a reputation for high strength and stiffness. We focus on these two areas so that the boat will hold high rig tension and not flex in the bow and mid sections. It also means that the tune of the boat will not change through a season of racing so that the rig tensions and mast bends will not alter as the season progresses. In 2018 we produced a new mould which we believe is the ultimate for a mixed crew combination heading to Paris 2024. The mould is designed to maximise the energy from body pumping while also making the boat easy to sail. It was designed with help from sailors, Nathan Wilmont and Jo Aleh, who worked alongside our navel architect, Kevin Trotter. All of the ribs on our boats are vacuum clamped foam with chopped mat and uni-directional rovings on top. We obtain extra strength from the rigidity of the foam itself.