Not a class but a rule — a formula relating length, sail area and girth that produced the 6-, 8-, 12- and 15-Metre boats and, with them, most of what people mean by a beautiful yacht.
- Ratified
- October 1907 at a Paris conference; groundwork laid at a London meeting of eleven nations in July 1906
- Institutional result
- Created the IYRU, now World Sailing
- Scale
- About 6,000 Metre-rule boats built since 1907; roughly half still extant
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