NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Flying Scot (dinghy)

The Flying Scot is a day sailer dinghy used for pleasure sailing as well as racing throughout North America. The Flying Scot was designed in 1957 by Gordon K. (Sandy) Douglass who had already designed the Thistle and Highlander dinghies. Image File history File links FlyingScotLogo. ... LOA could stand for: Library of America, a famous American publisher Length Over All, commonly used to indicate maximum hull length of a vessel. ... Waterline length or length, waterline (abbreviated to LWL) is a sailboat term for the length of a boat at the point where it sits in the water. ... The beam of a ship is its width at the widest point, or a point alongside the ship at the mid-point of its length. ... In nautical parlance, draft is the depth below waters surface of the lowest part of a ship or boat. ... A hull is the body or frame of a ship or boat. ... mizzen mast, mainmast and foremast Grand Turk The mast of a sailing ship is a tall vertical pole which supports the sails. ... A mainsail is the most important sail raised from the main (or only) mast of a sailing vessel. ... A typcial jib on a small yacht A jib is a triangular staysail set ahead of the foremost mast of a sailing boat. ... A spinnaker is a special type of sail that is designed specifically for sailing downwind (with the wind behind the boat). ... A day sailer is a small sailboat without sleeping accommodations. ... 2 GP14s, a Topper and a Graduate Dinghy sailing is the activity of sailing small boats by using (1) the sails and (2) underwater foils (centreboard and rudder). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Thistle sailing downwind. ... A Douglass design in the early 50s, the Highlander was the last boat built by the Douglass & McLeod company. ...

Over 5000 boats have been built, and races are held throughout the year in the USA and Canada by the Flying Scot Association and its local fleets. As a one-design, all Flying Scot boats are built to the same specifications and thus have equal chances in winning a race, no matter when the boat was built. The Flying Scot was introducted in 1998 into the American Sailboat Hall of Fame. The American Sailboat Hall of Fame was established in 1994 by Sail America to acknowledging the extraordinary skill and ingenuity of American boat builders. ...

The Flying Scot Association says, "The Scot's performance offers thrills to even the experienced sailor and provides for tight, competitive racing. There are more than 100 fleets racing Flying Scots in the USA and Canada. The Scot is normally raced with a crew of two or three, but can be single handed as well. The sail plan consists of main, jib and spinnaker. Simple rigging and uniform construction fosters tactical racing." A boat sails by her self-steering system as the skipper tends her sails, while sailing in fine conditions off Key West. ...

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Classes of sailing dinghies, scows, sharpies and skiffs (worldwide)

29er | 405 ("Four-oh-five") | 420 ("Four-twenty") | 470 ("Four-seventy") | 49er | 505 ("Five-oh-five") | Adventuress | Albacore | ASC | Australian Sharpie | Blue Jay | Bosun | Buccaneer 18 | Byte | C-Lark | Cadet | Cherub | Comet | Contender | Coypu | Day Sailer | El Toro | Enterprise | Escape | Europe |Fatty Knees | Finn | Fireball | Firefly | Flying Dutchman | Flying Eleven | Flying Junior | Flying Scot | GP14 | Graduate | Heron | Highlander | Hornet | Idle-along | IDRA14 | International Canoe | International Twelve | International Fourteen | 12ft Skiff |16ft Skiff | 18ft Skiff | Javelin | Jersey Skiff | Jollyboat | JY15 | Lark | Lido 14 | Lightning | Manly Junior | Merlin Rocket | Mirror | Mistral (Des Townson) | Musto Skiff | Mutineer 15 | National 12 | O'Day DaySailer | OK Dinghy | Optimist | Osprey | Otter | P Class | Pirate | Precision 15 | Puddle Duck Racer | Pacer | Sabot | Sabre | Salcombe Yawl | Sea Bright | Scorpion (dinghy) | Scow (A, C, E, MC, M16, 17) | Snipe | Solo | Spiral | Streaker | Sunfish | Tasar | Tauranga | Thames A Class Rater | Thistle | Turtle | Twinkles 10 & 12 | Vagabond | Vanguard 15 | Wanderer | Wayfarer | Y flyer | Z Class (aka Zeddie, Takapuna) | Zephyr (Des Townson) | Zoom 8 Dinghy of the schooner Adventuress A dinghy is a small utility boat attached to a larger boat. ... A scow, in the original sense, is a flat bottomed boat with a blunt bow, often used to haul garbage or similar bulk freight; cf. ... Sharpies are long, narrow sailboats with shallow draft. ... The term skiff is applied to various river craft, but a skiff is typically a small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern. ... The 29er is a skiff designed by Julian Bethwaite and first produced in 1998. ... The International 420 Class Dinghy is a monohull planing dinghy with centreboard, bermuda rig and centre sheeting, designed for a crew of two. ... The 470 is a monohull planing dinghy with centerboard, bermudan rig and center sheeting, designed for a crew of two. ... 49er With Its Asymetric Spinnaker The 49er is a newer one-design class of small sailing dinghy. ... The International 505 is a one-design high-performance two person monohull planing centerboard dinghy. ... Adventuress sail no. ... The Albacore is a 4. ... The Australian Sharpie is a 3-person sailing dinghy which has evolved from the 12-square-metre class sailed in the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. ... A fleet of Blue Jays sail in a regatta Blue Jay is a class of sailboat used primarily in the Northeastern United States. ... The Buccaneer 18 is a day sailer for pleasure sailing as well as racing; it is sailed throughout North America. ... The Byte is a cat rigged dinghy sailboat produced by PS2000. ... A C-Lark sailing with a model boat in the foreground. ... A Cadet is a small sailing dinghy. ... The Cherub is a small, high performance[1], two man planing dinghy first designed in 1951 in New Zealand by John Spencer[2] (d 1994). ... The Comet dinghy is a sixteen foot long, two person, one-design class, racing sloop. ... The Contender is a single-handed high performance sailing dinghy, designed by Ben Lexcen (Australia) in 1967 as a possible successor to the Finn dinghy for Olympic competition. ... A Coypu The Coypu is a class of small sailing dinghy. ... The Day Sailer is a day sailer for pleasure sailing as well as racing; it is sailed throughout North America and Brazil. ... The El Toro is a one-design class of sailing dinghy. ... The Enterprise type is a two-man hiking sailing dinghy with a distinctive blue sail and no spinnaker. ... Escape started as a 2004 short film made by Gabriel Bergmoser, Daniel Smetack, and David Padbury. ... The Europe is a one person dinghy. ... The Fatty Knees fibreglass sailing dinghies were designed by Lyle Hess (1912 - 2002). ... Originally designed by Peter Milne in 1962, the Fireball is a one-design high-performance sailing dinghy. ... Former Olympic Class The firefly is a two sail hiking sailing dinghy with no spinnaker. ... Former Olympic Class The Flying Dutchman is a high-performance class of racing dinghy. ... The Flying Eleven is an Australian boat designed as a high performance racing skiff suitable for 12 to 18 year olds. ... Flying Junior Dinghy The Flying Junior or FJ is a sailing dinghy designed in 1955 in Holland by Van Essen and Conrad Gulcher. ... GP14 from astern The GP14 is a 4. ... The Heron Dinghy is a dinghy designed by Jack Holt of the United Kingdom as the Yachting World Cartopper (YW Cartopper). ... A Douglass design in the early 50s, the Highlander was the last boat built by the Douglass & McLeod company. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The International Canoe, or more properly the International Ten Square Metre Sailing Canoe, often abbreviated to IC is a powerful and extremely fast single handed sailing canoe whose rules are governed by the International Canoe Federation. ... The International 14 is a racing sailing dinghy. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and conform with our NPOV policy, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Javelin can refer to several different class of boats. ... The Jersey Skiff is a beach launched boat first appearing around the end of the 1800s. ... A Jollyboat is a New Zealand sailing dinghy designed by John Spencer. ... The JY 15 is a one-design racing dinghy designed by Rod Johnstone in 1989. ... Lark 2462 Mr Bigglesworth About the LARK Class The Lark was designed in 1966 by Michael Jackson, designer of many National 12 and Merlin Rockets. ... Image:Lido14. ... It has been suggested that Lightning (sailboat) be merged into this article or section. ... A junior racing dinghy class popular in Sydney Australia. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A Mirror on Combs Reservoir in Derbyshire The Mirror is a highly successful pram dinghy, with more than 70,000 built. ... Introduction A Musto Skiff reaching at Lake Garda The Musto Skiff is a single-handed sailing skiff with a length of 4. ... A Mutineer and barge share the Mississippi River The Mutineer is a 15 foot sailing vessel. ... The National 12 is a two person, two sail, twelve foot long sailing dinghy. ... The Day Sailer is a day sailer for pleasure sailing as well as racing; it is sailed throughout North America and Brazil. ... OK dinghy A Brief History of the OK In 1957 Axel Dangaard Olsen of Seattle, U.S.A., asked the Danish yacht designer Knud Olsen to prepare drawings for a light and fast single-handed sailing dinghy based on conventional plywood construction. ... The Optimist is the standard of small, single-crew sailing dinghy. ... The Otter is a two man sailing dinghy with a glass fibre hull. ... Origin The P-Class was designed by New Zealand civil engineer, Harry Highet, as a simple vessel in which children and young people could learn to sail. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... Image:Precision15. ... This image shows the dimensions to which a Puddle Duck Racer must conform. ... Pacer Class The Pacer class of sailing dinghy, formerly known as the Puffin Pacer, was designed in the UK by Jack Holt. ... The Sabot is a sailing dinghy that is sailed and raced singlehandedly usually by young sailors in various places around the world. ... Sabre sailing at Brighton & Seacliff Yacht Club The Sabre is a class of twelve-foot-long (3. ... The Sea Bright is a derivation of the Jersey Skiff. ... The scorpion is a class of small sailing dinghy. ... A scow, in the original sense, is a flat bottomed boat with a blunt bow, often used to haul garbage or similar bulk freight; cf. ... The Snipe is a 15-1/2 foot, 2 person, one design racing dinghy with a rich history. ... The National Solo class is a racing dingy designed by Jack Holt in 1956. ... The Spiral is a type or class of sailing dinghy. ... Streakers at Ripon Sailing Club A Streaker is a type of sailing dinghy designed in 1975 by Jack Holt. ... The Sunfish is a popular one-design class of sailboat which was developed in the 1950s. ... The Tasar is a 14 foot fibreglass sailing dinghy. ... Origin The P-Class was designed by New Zealand civil engineer, Harry Highet, as a simple vessel in which children and young people could learn to sail. ... The Thames A Class Rater is both a historic and modern specialist sailing craft designed for the particular conditions at Thames Sailing Club, in Surbiton in the United Kingdom. ... A Thistle sailing downwind. ... The Vagabond is a 3. ... The Vanguard 15 is a popular one design racing dinghy (no changes to the boat) manufactured by Vanguard Sailboats. ... The Wanderer Logo The Wanderer is a 14 foot Fiberglass hull Bermuda rigged sailing dinghy designed by Ian Proctor. ... The Wayfarer is a wooden or fibreglass hulled bermudan rigged sailing dinghy, often used for short sailing trips as a day boat. The boat is 15 foot 10 inches (4. ... The Y Flyer is a 18 foot sloop rigged racing dinghy sailed by 2 people. ... The Z Class (also known as the Zeddie or Takapuna) was designed in Auckland by two yachties who lived on Northcote Point on Aucklands North Shore. ... The Zephyr is a New Zealand one-design 3. ... The Zoom 8 is a youth racing sailboat sailed in the United Kingdom and Ireland. ...

Laser | Laser Radial | Laser 4.7 | Laser 2 | Laser 2000 | Laser 3000 | Laser 4000 | Laser 5000 | Laser Pico | Laser SB3 | Laser Stratos | Laser Vortex | Laser Funboat Olympic Class The Laser Standard Side view Rightening a capsized boat This article focuses on the Laser Standard dinghy. ... The Laser (often called Laser Standard to avoid confusion with the laser variants) is a popular one-design class of small sailing dinghy. ... The Laser 4. ... The Laser 2 is a larger variant of the popular Laser one-design class of small sailing dinghy The Laser is a single-handed boat, but the Laser 2 is sailed by two people. ... The Laser 4000 is an asymmetric racing dinghy crewed by two persons. ... The Laser Pico dinghy is a small sailboat designed by Jo Richards in the mid-1990s and used primarily for training and day sailing. ... The Laser SB3 is a one-design class of sailboat commonly used for racing. ... // Laser Stratos Introduction The Laser Stratos is an all-round cruising and racing boat built by the same company as the famous Laser Standard dinghy. ...

RS200 | RS300 | RS400 | RS500 | RS600 | RS700 | RS800 | RS Feva | RS Vareo | RS Vision | RS K6 The RS200 is a 4. ... The RS300 is a modern racing sailing dinghy made by RS, who also make many other dinghies. ... The RS500 is a three-cylinder racing motorcycle produced by Honda. ... The RS800 is a fast, light-weight sailing dinghy designed by Phil Morrison. ...

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