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. \nAs of 1980 the name was officially changed to INTERNATIONAL FJ.\nFirst built of Fiberglass in 1960.\nA 'Club' version (CLUB FJ) is of heavier construction with approximately the same dimensions.\nThere 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.\n(Formerly listed here as FLYING JUNIOR (INTERNATIONAL FJ).)\nSpinnaker 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)