Last year (2007) we celebrated 60 years since the Cadet was first designed. In 1947 the then Editor of “Yachting World” magazine, Group Captain Teddy Haylock, had the brilliant idea to commission a design specifically for children and young people to sail. He asked a leading designer Jack Holt to come up with a design that was low-cost and easy to build at home. The rest, as they say, is history...
For more information please visit www.cadetclass.org (the official website of the International Cadet Class Association)
For those interested but not familiar with the Cadet: basic information on the Cadet dinghy can also be found on Wikipedia. Have a look: www.wikipedia.org