Women's Dinghy

The equipment for the Women’s Dinghy event, the ILCA 6 uses a more flexible and slightly shorter lower mast, with a sail area 18% smaller than the ILCA 7.

It was first introduced as an Olympic discipline at Beijing 2008. Visually, the ILCA 6 class is distinguishable from the ILCA 7 via the red rhombus carried on the mainsail of the boats used in the Women’s event.

As a one design class, all athletes in the ILCA 6 will compete at the Olympic Games with equipment built and supplied by the same manufacturer.