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Sailing canoes were developed in the late 1860s and 1870s in England and separately North America. Uffa Fox helped to unify the British and American rules, to form the International 10m2 Canoe rule in 1934. The American canoes had always sailed with sliding seats unlike the British canoes.  The new International rule allowed for a sliding seat. Today, the seat is a sliding arm that projects the sailor's weight well away from the centerline of the hull. With the narrowest hull shape of any one-design racing today, the International Canoe sails with a main and jib. The class also allows self-tacking jibs and an asymmetric spinnaker, in hopes of retaining the boat's position as the fastest singlehanded monohull boat. In the US, there are fleets in Ontario, New England, the Chesapeake Bay, and San Francisco. There are also fleets in Britain, Sweden, Germany, Australia. For more information, read the Int'l Canoe Wikipedia article.