Design
BRIO 555
Designed by Paolo Lodigiani and Matteo Costa
A collective dinghy, which is the sailing-school boat that carries a lot of students and one instructor. The type goes back to Herbulot's Caravelle of 1952, on which generations learned to tack. What has changed is the standard: as racing boats became extreme skiffs, training boats inherited what used to be sports-boat performance, and comparing the Brio with the Caravelle is the quickest way to see the distance travelled.
A 5.55 m collective dinghy, which is the European term for a sailing school boat carrying a group of students under one instructor. The type goes back to the Herbulot Caravelle of 1952. Offered round hulled in strip planking or chined in stitch and glue.
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