[1][2][4] Bombardier Limited applied for a trademark of the Invitation name, for "boats and parts", on 7 December 1973.

[5] The Invitation is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of fibreglass, with wood trim.

Retracting the daggerboard allows beaching or ground transportation on a trailer or car roof rack.

[1] For sailing the design is equipped with hiking straps, an adjustable outhaul, a boom vang and a vacuum bailer.

[2] In a 1994 review Richard Sherwood described the Invitation as, "a boat designed for ease in cartopping, with two-piece mast and overhanging two-inch gunwale to assist lifting ... [the] Invitation is a one-design with rigid class rules.