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Builders

seaislandboatworks.com
http://www.teamvanguard.com/boats/m/_general/laser_home.asp
www.optimistusa.com/pixel.asp
nisboats.com
www.trinka.com

Resellers

Pixel Website
www.shumwaymarine.com/ideal18

Associations

www.laser.org
www.laserinternational.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SJ-24
www.sonar.org
www.uksonar.info
www.sailing.org

Publications

Canadian Yachting
http://www.sailingworld.com
Sailing.org

Sail Makers

http://www.neilprydesails.com/briefframe.htm
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Kirby Designs A-Z


Of the 60 + designs turned out since 1958, when Bruce Kirby was a working newspaperman designing boats in the evenings and weekends, a complete list has never been compiled until now. The purpose of the list to to help owners of these boats to know when and why their vessels came into being, and where possible, to tell where information on them can be found. As more designs are being turned out each year the list will continue to be a work in progress. To view the current list, please use the drop down menu above.
 

In the news


Recently Australian Michael Blackburn sailed a Laser from Tasmania to mainland Australia - blasting downwind for 115 miles and averaging 8.6 knots for the distance. The wind was fresh and well aft and the seas were big - rolling in from the deep reaches of the Southern Ocean, so Blackburn, an Olympic medalist in Lasers, got... Read More »