The International Flying Fifteen, designed by Uffa Fox over fifty years ago, is a two-person racing keelboat which has a lively performance and yet is safe and easy to handle. Over 3,700 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 and Philippines. Ninety boats from six countries competed in the 2003 World Championships in Ireland, including two from Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong Flying Fifteen Association was established in the early1960's and has over seventy members, with over thirty boats based at the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, Causeway Bay (http://www.rhkyc.org.hk). The Fifteen fleet is 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 some six/eight times a year the fleet sail to Port Shelter, Clearwater Bay or Lamma for a full weekend sailing. 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? Whether you are an experienced helm/crew looking for
competitive harbour racing, or just a novice wanting to get on the
water, come and see what The Fifteen's have to offer! Just turn up at
the Club on a Saturday lunch time and ask for the Fifteens. Everyone
knows us!