Giormax

The Giormax looks modern and is not: it is a reworking of a 1930s design, and the story behind it is better than most. A 1935 book published by the magazine La Vela e il Motore records two boys from Genoa, George and Max, finding a stranded seaplane float on a beach and fitting it with a sail and a sort of centreboard for amusement. It worked, and worked well, and a whole sailing class grew out of the accident and took their names. It had spread widely before the Second World War. One of the Diecipiedi, the Italian ten-footer development class, which fixes the length at about 3 m and caps the sail area but leaves the hull shape and the rig to the designer. That is why several boats in this catalog are within a few centimetres of each other and still sail quite differently.

A 3 m ten footer redrawn from a 1930s design published in the Italian magazine La Vela e il Motore, whose own origin was two boys in Genoa rigging a stranded seaplane float and finding it sailed. Chine hull, stitch and glue, a beginner build.