World Sailing Announces Shortlist for Olympic Singlehander

World Sailing Announces Shortlist for Olympic Singlehander
The Laser and Radial are one of four single-handers in the next stage of evaluation – photo © Tom Walker

World Sailing has announced that it received eight bids for the selection of equipment for the Mens and Womens One Person Dinghy.

This is part of the Anti-Trust Review in which the Laser and Laser Radial were tagged, along with the RS-X Windsurfer (Mens and Womens) and is not the Olympic Equipment Evaluation.

From the eight bids received the Re-Evaluation Working Party has short-listed four for further evaluation.

– Laser Standard and Laser Radial – presented by the International Laser Class Association

– D-Zero presented by Devoti Sailing

– Melges 14, presented by Melges Boat Works, Mackay Boats Ltd

– RS Aero presented by RS Sailing

The second phase of the Evaluation is a paper based exercise as described in this document published by World Sailing

© Richard Gladwell, Sail-world.com