Zoom8

The Zoom8 is a small, light sailing dinghy for children and adolescents. In addition to recreational purposes, the one-handed sailed boat is used primarily in Scandinavia, Russia, Austria and Estonia of the training of young sailors for the regatta.

Zoom8 is recognized by the ISAF international class unit.

The hull, spars, sails

In the early 1990s the boat was designed by young dinghy sailors and experienced in boat building Henrik Segercrantz in Finland. The hull and deck are in sandwich construction, the top layers of glass fiber reinforced plastic (GRP ) is manufactured. The mast is made of fiberglass with carbon reinforcements, the tree made ​​of black anodized aluminum. The boat is cat- rigged, so it has only a sail with a sail area of 4.8 m². As canvas woven Dacron cloth used. The maximum load of the finished sail boat is 150 kg. It is self-bailing and unsinkable.

Regattas and races

At the discharged from July 30 to August 4, 2007 at Achensee in Tyrol World Cup took 56 girls and 64 boys in part from 9 nations. World Champions were Lena Hess ( Austria ) and Thomas Palme ( Austria ).

The 2008 World Championship was held in Tønsberg, Norway. Lena Hess and Thomas Palme (both Austria ) were able to defend your title.

The 2009 World Cup was held in Träslövsläge, in Sweden. The World Cup 2010 will take place in Estonia.