INTERNATIONAL FJ
Fractional Sloop • Centerboard Dinghy • Built 1956
Dimensions
- LOA
- 13.22 ft
- LWL
- 12.25 ft
- Beam
- 5.25 ft
- Max Draft
- 2.5 ft
- Min Draft
- 0.58 ft
- Displacement
- 165 lbs
- Ballast
- — lbs
Performance Ratios
- Capsize Ratio ⓘ
- 3.83 (use caution offshore)
- SA/D Ratio ⓘ
- 55.3
- D/L Ratio ⓘ
- 40
- Ballast Ratio ⓘ
- —
Sail Plan
- Sail Area
- 104 sq ft
Construction
- Hull Type
- Centerboard Dinghy
- Rig Type
- Fractional Sloop
- Hull Material
- Molded Plywood/FG
- Ballast Type
- —
Production
- First Built
- 1956
- Last Built
- —
- Number Built
- 4600
Notes:
Formerly FLYING DUTCHMAN JUNIOR, FLYING JUNIOR.
As of 1980 the name was officially changed to INTERNATIONAL FJ.
First built of Fiberglass in 1960.
A 'Club' version (CLUB FJ) is of heavier construction with approximately the same dimensions.
There have been a number of other variants including the DEMON, a stretched version of the same design, and the PIRATE, said to be a FJ hull with a TASER deck and seen mostly in Canada.
(Formerly listed here as FLYING JUNIOR (INTERNATIONAL FJ).)
Spinnaker Area: 8m2/86 sq.ft.
Designer
Builders
- Advance Sailboat Corp. (USA) (1960–1980)
- Alpa Yachts (ITA) (1956–1978)
- Centro Nautico Adriatico (1984)
- Comar Yachts (1961)
- Costantini (Chantier Naval Costantini) (1932–1979)
- Grampian Marine (1962–1977)
- Nautivela (ITA) (1961)
- Paceship Yachts Ltd. (1962–1981)
- Schock W.D. (1946)
- Whitecap Composites (USA)
- Zim Sailing (USA) (2008)