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2018 Flying Scot sailboat (19'ft} - $20,000 (Saint Augustine, FL)
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Aging out of trailer sailing, I am, reluctantly, looking for a new home for my beautiful 2018 Flying Scot (Free Spirit, #6166).
For a sailor, few things are more liberating than spontaneous sailing. This freedom often means solo sailing. And for the day sailor, the FS supports that free spirit very well. Unfortunately for the trailer sailor, single handed setup of the FS can be hard. Trailering, stepping the mast, rigging, off/on the trailer and unrigging is tedious.
Over the last several years I have tried to incorporate efficiencies to take the “hard” out of the process. These are targeted at a specific niche: FS, single handed, trailer, day sailing. Most of these are known rigging techniques but applied to my FS:
Stepping the mast
• Quickie A-frame
• Cam Jams
• Remote control electric winch
Rigging
• Torqeedo motor
o Inboard controller (helm)
o Raise / lower from cockpit
• Boom topping lift
• Move boom mainsheet location so not to snag the motor
• Continuous jib sheet
• Jib downhaul
• Aid to feed mainsail on boom
• Continuous bow / stern line
• Jiffy lazy jack
• Mainsail outhaul
• Cunningham on mainsail
Trailering
• Upgraded 2022 Continental trailer for easier launching and loading
• Remote control electric winch
Any changes can easily be reverted to maintain FS one design racing standards. More details are available in a paper I wrote for the Scots n Water magazine. This can be made available to interested parties.
Other items that come with it:
• Custom color (Jeep Lime Green)
• Cruising set and performance set of sails
• No spinnaker, but a whisker pole
• Original tiller with carbon fiber extension
• Custom laminated tiller
• Mad Sails storage pockets
• FS custom storage/travel cover (plus 12x25 tarp)
• Compass
• Mooring lines
• Three fenders
• Safety ladder
• Motor mount