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Flying Fifteen

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The International Flying Fifteen, designed by Uffa Fox over sixty years ago, is a two-person racing keelboat which has a lively performance and yet is safe and easy to handle. Over 4,000 of these beautiful boats have been built, with large fleets at clubs all over UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand and single-club fleets in Hong Kong, South Africa, Majorca, France, Belgium and Philippines. Sixty boats competed at the 2017 World Championships in Napier, New Zealand including four boats from Hong Kong.

The Hong Kong Flying Fifteen Association was established in the early1960's and has over seventy members, with twenty four boats based at the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, Causeway Bay. The Fifteen fleet is one of the most active in the Club, with racing on almost every weekend of the year. Most racing is in the Harbour on Saturday afternoons, but the fleet also spend time Lamma, where the 2013 World Championships were raced.

Fifteens are also well represented at Regattas, Round the Island Race, etc, and have an excellent record competing on handicap against different classes of boat. Off the water, we believe that we are friendly and welcoming, after the usual jugs in the bar apres-sail, we inevitably go for a meal somewhere on Saturday evenings.

Would you like to Fly a Fifteen? If you have some sailing experience and are interested in trying out a Fifteen, or if you want to get on the crew list, or whatever, just turn up at the Club on a Saturday lunch time and ask for the Fifteens. Everyone knows us!

HK Flying Fifteen Website

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President Peter Britten
Fleet Captain Leigh Riddell
Class Secretary Gina Chen
Assistant Class Secretary Tak Fong
Treasurer James Betts
Class Measurer Peter Wilkinson
Assistant Class Measurer Terence Lee
FFI Representative Peter Britten
Social Secretary Jamie Wood
Crew Coordinator Masaki Taniguchi

If you are interested in learning more about the Flying Fifteen Class, please contact us any time at flyingfifteen@rhkyc.org.hk

All notices of race are in PDF format and it can be retrieved and printed for use. The PDF file required Acrobat Reader which can be downloaded for free from ADOBE.

Standard Sailing Instructions

BOAT SAIL # OWNER
SKIVER 3304 Kelvin Au Yeung
ZEST 3468 Wilfred Kam
FRANTIC 3476 Wai Chuen Chan
FFRANKENSTEIN 3500 James Betts / Jim Philips
FFOLLY 3604 Gina Chen
FREEWINDS 3649 Terence Lee
FANTASTIC FIVE 3700 Tam Yuk Hang
PUFF' N STUFF 3701 David Chow
NOISY FOREFATHER 3722 James Betts / Jim Philips
PATHFFINDER 3735 Kunihiro Fukushima
FRENCH FRIES 3828 Iori Matsumoto
SQUIFFY 3830 Brian Henderson
NIFFTY 3876 Peter Cheung/ Vivian Ngan
SECOND WIND 3882 Tak Fong
FLYING FORT 3978 Spencer Suen
KERFUFFLE 3979 Carlyon Knight-Evans
TCHAIKOFFSKY 3981 Kazuya Nagasawa / Masaki Taniguchi
FEI FAAN 3990 Leigh Riddell
TOMFFOOLERY 3997 Roberto Marinelli
UFFA FOX ACHE 4015 Peter Wilkinson
FULL POWER 4038 Sam Chan