The Flying Junior or FJ is a sailing dinghy designed in 1955 in Holland by Van Essen and Conrad Gulcher. Van Essen was a well known Dutch boat designer and Gulcher was a Dutch Olympic sailor. The FJ was built to serve as a training boat for the then Olympic class Flying Dutchman. The FJ has a beam of 4'11" and an overall sail area of 100 square feet. These dimensions make the FJ an ideal class to train young sailors the intricacies of boat handling and racing. A dinghy is either a small utility boat used to tend a larger boat, or it is a boat developed from these tenders but now used in its own right as a form of leisure sailing and/or rowing. ...
In 1960 the Flying Junior formed its own class organization and by the early 1970s the Flying Junior was accorded the status of an international class by the International Yacht Racing Union, the pre-cursor to the International Sailing Federation. This status indicates that the class applies to strict one-design rules and holds regurally scheduled international regattas. The International Sailing Federation is the world governing body for the sport of sailing, particularly yacht and dinghy racing. ...
Today the FJ is sailed in Japan, Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and the United States. In the US the FJ is widely used in college sailing.
The original purpose of the "Flying Dutchman Junior" was to serve as a junior trainer for the thennew Olympic Flying Dutchman (FD).
The FlyingJunior grew in popularity in Europe, and in the early 1960's several people began to import them to the United States as small sailboats for use, mainly by adults.
The center of racing activity of the FlyingJunior in the U.S. during the 1960's was the Midwest, in and around Kansas City.
The International FlyingJunior or FJ is a sailing dinghy which was originally designed in 1955 in Holland by renowned boat designer Van Essen and Olympic sailor Conrad Gülcher.
The FJ was built to serve as a training boat for the then Olympic-class Flying Dutchman.
In 1960 the FlyingJunior formed its own class organization and by the early 1970s the FlyingJunior was accorded the status of an international class by the International Yacht Racing Union, the pre-cursor to the International Sailing Federation.
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