Express

Number of Crew 2
Trapeze

Length 3.88m
Beam 1.59m
Sail area (main + jib) 8.92sq.m
Spinnaker 7.8sq.m
PY number
Designer & date G. Harris in the early 1970s
Highest sail number
Class web address
Notes Gordon Harris, MD of Pegasus Yachts, designed the Express to avoid a 25% luxury goods tax placed by the government. The new class was to be sponsored by Express Newspapers.

Boats obviously were seen as a bit of a luxury, but the raw materials not so. So the Express was designed to be built at home; having hired the moulds, owners layed up the glassfibre themselves. The mast was a tube, the fittings came in sets, and the wooden bits as wood not decks or transoms.

Lots of schools built them as projects too. They reached about 8-900 in number, eventually being built by Anglo Marine.

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