Laser 2 Sailboats for Sale

Drawing Diagram

Builder drawing

Hull Type

Monohull · daggerboard

Rig

Fractional Sloop

LOA

14.42' · 4.4 m

Disp.

170 lbs · 77 kg

First year

1978

When Performance Sailcraft sought a doublehanded successor to the monumentally successful singlehanded Laser, they turned away from the sheer simplicity of Bruce Kirby's design in favor of something more technically demanding. Designed by New Zealander Frank Bethwaite and Canadian builder Ian Bruce, and introduced in 1978, the Laser 2 (or Laser II) was engineered to bridge the gap between recreational dinghies and highperformance skiffs. Combining Bethwaite’s legendary "skifflite" design philosophy with Ian Bruce's mastery of production scale, the Laser 2 offered a platform that was lightweight, cartoppable, and incredibly fast. It was conceived as an athletic trainer and a strict onedesign racer, introducing young and intermediate sailors to the dynamics of a single trapeze and a symmetrical spinnaker without the steep financial and physical barriers of contemporary Olympicclass boats.