The O-Jolle or Olympic MonoType dinghy was a narrow, heavy but successful class used in the 1936 Games

© Henshall Archive Olympic sailing video footage from the 1920s to 1960s
As 2024 draws to a close, we decided to look back on this Olympic year with a summary of all the oldest Olympic sailing videos we could find, from the analogue era before the year 2000. We start with the Twenties and go through to the Sixties.