and launching ramps with adequate parking are rare or nonexistent. Also 

 many people don't want to go to the trouble of putting their boat in and 

 out of the water every time they go for a sail or, as an alternative, hoisting 

 the mast and later lowering it each time, as we had to do on our Flying 

 Junior. They like to have a boat as nearly ready to sail as possible. Pur- 

 chasers of the Flying Junior should have this in mind. However, if they are 

 young, interested primarily in class racing rather than day sailing, and 

 don't mind the extra trouble, they can have a great deal of fun in a boat 

 which the builder says is intended for "dry sailing." 



A good many sailors apparently do come in this last category, for about 

 1050 Flying Juniors have been built, of which 550 are in the United States. 

 Holland has about 250 of the European boats, Italy 200. Ovingsteel, Inc. 

 (30 Church St., New York 7, N.Y. ), which imports Flying Juniors, ex- 

 pressed the belief that the lighter mast of the improved model makes the 

 boat now satisfactory for mooring purposes and explained that they (who 

 succeeded Van Breems as importers ) had had no complaints on that score. 



The International Secretary of the Flying Junior Organization is C. Th. 

 Gulcher (Gr. W. de Oudelaan 69, Naarden, Holland). The United States 

 Secretary is Sam Dawkins, Jr. (1201 Fidelity Union Tower, Dallas 1, Tex.). 

 The association is aggressive and publishes an interesting Flying Junior 

 Bulletin. Prices of the boat range from $900 to $1200; used boats cost $500, 

 as do kits. 



VITAL STATISTICS (approximate): L.O.A. 13V; waterline 12V to 

 12'6"; beam 4^1 ii^" (5^3" including wide gunwale); draft without center- 

 board 6", with C.B. 2'/' to 3'; sail area 100 sq. ft. ( no spinnaker, but under 

 consideration); weight 200 lbs.; trailable; racing crew, two. 



FLYING SCOT 



Designed by Gordon K. ( "Sandy" ) Douglass of Oakland, Maryland ( who 

 also designed the Thistle and Highlander), the Flying Scot 19-foot center- 

 board sloop was completed iij July 1957. At the time of writing there are 

 358 in the United States, with the greatest concentration to date in the 

 Midwest. Mr. Douglass writes: "I was convinced that the time had come 

 to introduce a new boat in the field of the family-racing boat, the center 

 of which field had for so long been held by the Lightning. The first re- 

 quirement for such a boat would be stability and roominess so that she 

 would be a boat anyone could sail with comfort, a boat the entire family 

 could enjoy severally and together. She should have a good performance 



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