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AFFORDABLE CLASSIC Flying Fifteen

There aren’t many planing keelboats designed in 1947 that are still in production 74 years later and flourishing in active fleets around the world. Indeed the notion of a keelboat that could plane was outrageous in those distant days. But the Flying Fifteen’s designer Uffa Fox was a man of vision; way back in 1928 he had already designed the first planing International 14.

It is said that Uffa had the idea for this revolutionary keelboat while relaxing

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