Flying Fifteen
Fractional Sloop · Fin Keel · First built 1948
An active international one-design class since 1948, featuring a high-performance fractional rig and a fin keel
Designed by Uffa Fox, built by Various.
- LOA
- Beam
- Draft (max)
- Displacement
- Ballast
- Hull type
- Fin Keel
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The Flying Fifteen, on the water
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Footage from Lady K Sailing
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Character
Where this design lands on the numbers a shopper trusts — read straight from her own ratios.
Her light displacement on a moderate beam gives 5 — a quick, lively motion that feels every wave.
At 3.12 she sits above the 2.0 line — beamy for her weight, and happiest coastal.
96 — light for her waterline, so she is easily driven and quick to accelerate.
28.1 — a lot of sail for her weight; powered-up and eager, a real performer.
51% of her weight is ballast — very stiff, carrying full sail in a blow.
Light and lively — happiest day-sailing and coastal-hopping in settled weather.
- Lighter than ~99% of boats her size on file
- Draws less than ~84% of boats her size on file
- Narrower than ~83% of boats her size on file
Compared with 563 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.
The living fleet
Sailed by the fleet
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Related models
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