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The Bombardier Invitation is a Canadian sailing dinghy that was designed by Bombardier Research to compete in the same market with the Laser, as a one-design racer. It was first built in 1973.[1][2]

The design was developed into the Bombardier 3.8 in 1974.[3]

Production

The design was built by Bombardier Limited in Canada starting in 1973, but it is now out of production.[1][2][4]

Bombardier Limited applied for a trademark of the Invitation name, for "boats and parts", on 7 December 1973. The trademark was granted on 15 November 1974, but expired on 12 January 1990 and was not renewed.[5]

Design

The Invitation is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of fibreglass, with wood trim. It has a catboat rig with aluminum spars and a loose-footed mainsail. The hull has built-in foam for buoyancy. The sail is without sail battens, is installed over the two-piece mast with a sewn-in sleeve and can be wrapped around the mast. The hull has an enclosed foredeck, a spooned raked stem, a vertical transom, a wooden, kick-up, transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller with a hiking stick and a retractable wooden daggerboard. The hull alone displaces Шаблон:Convert.[1][2]

The boat has a draft of Шаблон:Convert with the daggerboard extended. Retracting the daggerboard allows beaching or ground transportation on a trailer or car roof rack.[1]

For sailing the design is equipped with hiking straps, an adjustable outhaul, a boom vang and a vacuum bailer.[2]

The design has a Portsmouth Yardstick racing average handicap of 99.3 and is normally raced with a crew of one or two sailors.[2]

Operational history

In a 1994 review Richard Sherwood described the Invitation as, "a boat designed for ease in cartopping, with two-piece mast and overhanging two-inch gunwale to assist lifting ... [the] Invitation is a one-design with rigid class rules."[2]

See also

Related development

Similar sailboats

References

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External links

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  2. 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 2,4 2,5 Sherwood, Richard M.: A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition, pages 58-59. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. Шаблон:ISBN
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