Referring to its appearance and colour, this exhibit appears to be a 105mm practice A.P.D.S. round.1. Cylinder with screw base. The base thread is counter clockwise. There is a black band, width 50 mm, around the base. It has grooves caused by a cannon barrel. The grooves show the twist angle of the barrel. Inside the cylinder at the base are 4 steel pins. The external diameter of the blue cylinder is 105mm. 2. Projectile, silver upper, dark lower section. The lower section has 3 simple fins. The base of the dark section has an extended nozzle, for the tracer fire. 3. Set of Sabot - 3 piece aluminum. Grooves on the outer sides. Insides are tapered to suit projectile.armour piercing, war, sabot

Sabot Dinghies have raced at RBYC for a great many years, as a training boat for boys and girls and as a "one design" regatta boat. There are a number of trophies which have been awarded, some of which have since been repurposed for use by other junior classes. If you click on the "right arrow" on the photo above you can see each of these one by one.sabot, caitlin, junior, hermann, robinson, clog, mccallum, shepard, 16 ft skiff, 420, acrospire, sylvia, laser, 505, duncan, royalist, b class, redeemer