Butterfly (dinghy)

Butterfly
Current specifications
Crew	1-2
Type	Monohull
Design	Scow
LOA	3.632 m (11 ft 11.0 in)
Beam	1.372 m (4 ft 6.0 in)
Draft	.660 m (2 ft 2.0 in)
Hull weight	61 kg (134 lb)
Mast height	5.486 m (18 ft 0 in)
Mainsail area	6.967 m² (74.99 sq ft)
D-PN	108.3
Development
Year	1961
Designer	John Barnett
Location	Libertyville, Illinois

The Butterfly is a one-design sailing dinghy, originally designed for a crew of two, but now most commonly raced single-handed. It was designed in 1961 in Libertyville, Illinois by John Barnett.^[1] The 12-foot (3.7 m) hull is a scow design. The craft has a stayed 18-foot (5.5 m) mast set as a Marconi rig with a single mainsail with a 75-square-foot (7.0 m²) surface area. The cockpit is 15 1/2", which is exceptionally deep for this size of sailbost, and can accommodate an adult to 6 feet in height.^[1]

History

The boat was first designed by John Barnett of Libertyville, Illinois in 1961 who was inspired to make a smaller version of the C Scow, a popular sailing skiff. With the help of Dr. Robert Chamberlain, Mike Daskilakis, and Jim Miller the class was officially launched in 1962. The first Butterfly nationals was held at Grand Rapids Yacht Club in 1962, after which the boat was declared the official training boat of the Western Michigan Yachting Association.^[2] Barnett quickly moved production to Kenosha, Wisconsin where it stayed until he sold the company in 1982 to Hedlund Marine in Willamette, Illinois but production was kept in Wisconsin. In 2007 Hedlund Marine sold production to Windward Boatworks of Green Lake, Wisconsin.^[2]

Fleets

Grand Rapids Yacht Club^[3]
Spring Lake Yacht Club
Crystal Lake Yacht Club
Glen Lake Yacht Club
Long Lake Yacht Club
Leland Yacht Club
Missouri Yacht Club
Muskegon Yacht Club
Powers Lake Yacht Club
Sail Dubay
Torch Lake Yacht Club
Union Sailing Club^[4]
White Lake Yacht Club
White Rock Boat Club

Sources

National Butterfly Association: boat specifications and class history.

1 2 "Butterfly sailboats". Toad Marine. Retrieved May 17, 2014.
1 2 "Butterfly History". Butterfly Nationals. Butterfly Nationals. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
↑ "Fleets". Butterly Nationals. Butterfly Nationals Association. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
↑ "Butterfly fleets". Butterflyer.org. Butterfly Class Association. Retrieved 9 November 2015.

External links

"Butterfly sailboats". Toad Marine. Retrieved May 17, 2014.

Sailing Scow classes

A-Scow Butterfly C-Scow E-Scow I-20 Melges 17 M Scow MC Scow Puddle Duck Racer Thames A Class Rater X boat

Sailing dinghy, Sharpie and Skiff classes

Dinghies under 10 ft	Frog Cape Cod Frosty El Toro Fatty Knees Fly Holdfast Trainer Manly Junior Minto Naples Sabot O'pen BIC Optimist P Class Pelican Puddle Duck Racer Sabot Starling Tadpole Topper Topaz Taz Turnabout Zoom 8

Dinghies under 15 ft	10ft Skiff 12 foot dinghy 125 ("One-twenty-five") 12ft Skiff 13ft skiff 29er 29erXX skiff 2000 3000 405 ("Four-oh-five") 420 Access Liberty Adventuress ASC Astus 14.1 Australian Sharpie B14 Banshee Beetle Cat Beneteau Wizz Bermuda Fitted Dinghy Blaze Blue Jay Bonito Bosun British Moth Butterfly Buzz Byte Cadet Cherokee Cherub C-Lark CL 14 Comet Coypu Dabchick Daring Dart Enterprise Escape Europe Envy Extra Farr 3.7 Finn Firefly Flying Ant Flying Eleven Flying Junior Force 5 GP14 Graduate Gull Heron Idle-along IDRA14 International Twelve International 14 Javelin (NZ) Javelin (US) Jet 14 Jollyboat (NZ) Lark Laser Standard Laser 2 Laser 3000 Laser 4.7 Laser 5000 Laser Funboat Laser Pico Laser Radial Laser Vago Laser Vortex Lido 14 Marlin Merlin Rocket MG14 Miracle Mirror Moth Musto Performance Skiff National 12 NS14 OK Dinghy O'pen BIC Otter Pacer Pegasus Penguin Phantom RS Feva RS Q'Ba RS Tera RS Vareo RS100 RS200 RS300 RS400 RS500 RS600 RS700 RS800 Sabre Scorpion Snark Snowbird (sailboat) Solo Spiral Splash Streaker Sunburst Sunfish Tinker Star Traveller Tinker Traveller Tasar Topper Topper Topaz Topper Topaz Magno Topper Topaz Vibe Topper Topaz Xenon Twinkles 10 & 12 Vagabond Vaurien Wanderer Weta Woodpussy Zeddie Zephyr

Dinghies under 20 ft	16ft Skiff 18 foot dinghy 18ft Skiff 470 49er 505 Albacore Beaufort Invitation Buccaneer CL 16 Comet Contender Corsair Day Sailer Fireball Flying Dutchman Flying Scot French National Monotype 1924 Hornet Interlake International Canoe Jacksnipe Javelin (Europe) Jersey Skiff Jollyboat (UK) Jolly Boat JY15 Laser 4000 Laser Bahia Laser Stratos Lelievlet Lightning M 16 Mirror 16 Mutineer 15 O-Jolle Osprey Payne-Mortlock sailing canoe Pirate Precision 15 RS K6 RS Vision RS700 RS800 Salcombe Yawl Sea Bright Sea Scout Standard Boat (BP18) Snipe Spanker Texas Tornado 12m² Sharpie Thistle Topper Topaz Omega Vanguard 15 Wayfarer Windmill Windy Winkle Brig X boat Y flyer

Dinghies 20 ft or over	Highlander M 20 Norfolk Punt

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