History ♥ North Haven Dinghy Foundation

The North Haven Dinghy has been raced each summer for 138 consecutive years and counting — longer than any other one-design sailboat in America. There are several dozen Dinghies in active use, primarily in the waters around the Fox Islands in Maine, where the first Dinghy race was held on Monday, August 15th, 1887, and Ellen Hayward in Griffin beat a couple fellows named Charles, all in identical sailboats. Since 1912, a local yacht club, the North Haven Casino, has conducted most of the summer-season Dinghy races. Here are some resources to learn more about Dinghy history:

	The official US Sailing Dinghy profile https://www.ussailing.org/one-design-profile/north-haven-dinghy/
	Historical precis with diagrams https://nhdinghy.org/Docs/John-Leather-Dinghy.pdf
	Background on the Dinghy from the North Haven Historical Society http://www.northhavenmainehistoricalsociety.org/north-haven-dinghy.html
	Long-form contextual piece on the Dinghy’s origin https://sailcraftblog.wordpress.com/2016/08/13/pt-1-12all-built-and-rigged-the-same-the-invention-of-the-one-design-class/
	On the Dinghy’s 100th anniversary https://nhdinghy.org/Docs/nhd-100th-article.pdf
	Photos of the Gitana, carrying the Dinghy prototype https://nhdinghy.org/gitana.php
	Racing logs from the North Haven yacht club https://casinoracer.club/north-haven-dinghy-racing
	The great Dinghy race up Mill River https://nhdinghy.org/Docs/MillRiverRegatta.pdf
	Class information from a Maine boatwright https://www.artisanboatworks.com/classic-designs/rowboats/north-haven-dinghy
	Dinghy info from Penobscot Marine Museum https://www.penobscotmarinemuseum.org/pbho-1/collection/north-haven-dinghies-mill-river