Musto Skiff
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The Musto Skiff is a single-handed sailing skiff with a length of 4.55m. It features a trapeze, gennaker, wings and low weight and achieves speeds of over twenty knots which makes it one of the fastest single-handed sailing boats.
It was designed for the 2000 Olympic Class trials in Quiberon by Joachim Harpprecht where it won every race in the single-handed dinghy competition. Since then, the class has grown mainly in the UK and Europe. The racing circuit had up to seven nations participating at regattas in 2004.
It is a demanding boat for experienced dinghy sailors. At the time of the design, the concept of a single-handed skiff was first met with scepticism by many observers, very similar to the initial reaction after the introduction of the 49er in 1996. Since then other single-handed skiff classes such as the RS700 have developed, bringing this kind of boat closer to mainstream dinghy sailing.
