boats requiring acrobats for crews and the displacement boats of earlier 

 vintage. 



The principal builders are the Gordon Douglass Boat Company (Oak- 

 land, Md. ) and Customflex (Toledo, Ohio). Construction is of fiber glass. 

 There is a Flying Scot Sailing Association, aimed at maintaining rigidly 

 the one-design features of the class. Joseph S. Stout is Secretary (Room 

 1904, 14 Wall St., New York, N.Y. ). It is interesting to note in the name of 

 the association emphasis on sailing rather than racing, implying that the 

 members expect more than just a racing boat. The price new, with Dacron 

 sails, is $2435. 



VITAL STATISTICS: L.O.A. 19'; watcrliuc i8'4"; beam y'; draft 

 without centerboard 8", with C.B. 4'; sail area 190 sq. ft. (spinnaker al- 

 lowed); total weight 850 lbs.; trailable; racing crew, two to four. 



FLYING TERN 



I'll have to begin by admitting a prejudice in favor of the 14-foot Flying 

 Tern. My son-in-law, John P. Ware, and I own one and like it immensely. 

 Also, it doesn't easily capsize at its moorings as our previous boat did. I 

 know and have a high regard for the Dutch designer and builder, whom 

 I have visited: E. G. Van de Stadt of Zaandam, Holland. His firm, which 

 imports these boats into the United States, is E. G. Van de Stadt Scheep- 

 swerf N.V. (P. O. Box 113, Zaandam, Holland). Dealers at present are 

 Don's Marine Center (P. O. Box 387, Islamorada, Fla. ), Annapolis Boat 

 Rentals (Box 1669, Annapolis, Md. ), Clifford Marine Sales (2120 Lake 

 Ave., Ashtabula, Ohio), and Sunnapee Company (1136 W. Montana Drive, 

 St. Paul 13, Minn. ) . The boat is built under license in Canada by Grampian 

 Marine (P. O. Box 413, Oakville, Ontario, Canada). 



About one thousand Flying Terns have been built since the boat was 

 first designed in 1956. Of these about 150 are in the United States, 45 in 

 Mexico, 45 in Germany, 100 in Canada, and 100 in France. Saudi Arabia 

 even has 20. It is a National Racing Class in Holland with over 400 com- 

 petitors. 



The Flying Tern has a round section and is a good planing boat. In a 

 very light wind one day I was surprised to see her sail through the lee 

 of a modern 26-foot displacement racer without planing. When planing 

 she has gone by various displacement boats twice her size, as planing 

 boats will. Besides being fast, she is an extremely pretty and well-built 

 boat, comfortable and fun to sail. 



There is now in the United States an active North American Flying 



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