CARTER School training boats

CARTER School Standard / Tourist serie …

A great concept inspired by the OPTIMIST dinghy, specially designed and developed to be a training boat for every child who dreams to become a successful OPTIMIST sailor.
It is very easy to handle and to maintain and brings a great fun either when learning and training the sailing skills as well as at leisure time.
It has been widely complemented by those who have tested it for its unique design and sailing abilities, versatility and durable structure.
During the years, its design has evolved to meet the highest demands required by sailing schools and sailing clubs as well as kids themselves!

It gives an impression of sailing an OPTIMIST dinghy and from a distance, it looks like an OPTIMIST dinghy…
It is just one step to the real class boat.

There are two versions of CARTER School:
1. Standard – with rubbing strake alike the one of OPTIMIST boat.
2. Tourist – with a strong, black PVC fender, all around the gunwale.
The special structure of the gunwale ensures strong fixation, even on impact and during long exposure in the sun in the warm summer.

In short, some special building and design features:

  1. The hull structure is made of the best, certified materials available on the market.
  2. Instead of separate gunwale and midship as well as three open air-bags as applied on the OPTIMIST dinghy, our boat has got an unique solution where:
    the GRP gunwale is integrated with the GRP midship and two GRP watertight air-tanks covers placed on both sides of the fore cockpit,
    at stern there is a GRP aft air-tank cover.
    All those GRP elements and bounded with the best available adhesives, assuring extreme rigidity of the whole structure.
    Closed GRP air-tanks provide perfect protection of the buoyancy filling placed therein.
    The side air-tanks are specially shaped to comfort the arm support.
  3. CARTER School Standard Basic / Tourist Basic is delivered with three inflatable air-bags, which are inserted inside the air-tanks through the watertight bull-eye hatches.
    CARTER School Standard Easy / Tourist Easy is delivered with foam-blocks inserted in the watertight air-tanks. An air-vent is placed in each of the air-tanks to enable draining and ventilating the air-tanks.
  4. The boat is basically rigged in the same way as the official OPTIMIST dinghy, thereby being a good, valuable alternative.
  5. The boat is fully fitted and equipped with original OPTIPARTS components, the same as used on the OPTIMIST dinghy (deck fittings, rigging, sail and spars).
  6. The mainsheet fittings, rudder fittings, hiking straps fixtures and the mast step are backed by aluminum backing plates.
  7. The boat is equipped with high class GRP foils made in white.
    Daggerboard is neatly finished with mahogany battens.
  8. Standard colours of the hull are:
    – white in bottom-hull,
    – white in gunwale, mid-ship frame and all air-tank covers,
    – cockpit is finished in light grey with dark grey anti-skid areas.
  9. Optionally, the hull may be finished in any other colour from the RAL-range as well as in multi-colour layouts, including striping, water-line, etc.
  10. Optionally, the hull and complete set of equipment thereto is delivered packed in a shaped-to-size carton-box which assures perfect protection and enables very easy handling and storage.

CARTER School Standard / Tourist fully conforms with the EU-origin legal status.

CARTER School Racer

Alternative version of training boat even more inspired by the OPTIMIST dinghy than the CARTER School Standard / Tourist boats.
Specially designed and developed to be a training boat for every child who dreams to become a successful OPTIMIST sailor.
It is very easy to handle and to maintain and it brings a great fun either when learning and training sailing skills as well as at leisure time.
It has been widely complemented by those who have tested it for its unique design and sailing abilities and durable structure.
Its design aims to meet the highest demands required by sailing schools and sailing clubs as well as kids themselves!

It gives much greater impression of sailing an OPTIMIST dinghy than the CARTER School Standard / Tourist boats and even from a short distance, it looks much alike an OPTIMIST dinghy…
It is really just one step to the real class boat.

In short, some special building and design features:

  1. The hull structure is made of the best, certified materials available on the market.
  2. The hull is additionally reinforced with woven glass and core materials to increase stiffness and rigidity of its structure.
  3. The hull is assembled from similar elements as of the OPTIMIST boats, ie. gunwale with thwart and bulkhead, mid-ship frame with daggerboard case and bottom-hull.
  4. All those GRP elements and bonded with the best available adhesives.
  5. The boat is basically rigged in the same way as the official OPTIMIST dinghy, thereby being a good, valuable alternative.
  6. The boat is fully fitted and equipped with original OPTIPARTS components, the same as used on the OPTIMIST dinghy (deck fittings, rigging, sail and spars).
  7. The mainsheet fittings, rudder fittings, hiking straps fixtures and the mast step are backed by aluminum backing plates.
  8. The boat is equipped with CARTER high class GRP foils made in white.
    Daggerboard is neatly finished with mahogany battens.
  9. Standard colours of the hull are:
    – white in bottom-hull, gunwale and mid-ship frame,
    – cockpit is finished in light grey.
    Optionally, the aft-cockipt can be layed with dark grey anti-skid area.
  10. Optionally, the hull may be finished in any other colour from the RAL-range as well as in-moulded multi-colour layouts, including striping, water-line, etc.
  11. Optionally, the hull and complete set of equipment thereto is delivered packed in a shaped-to-size carton-box which assures perfect protection and enables very easy handling and storage.

CARTER School Racer fully conforms with the EU-origin legal status.