Three sailors cruising in the roomy cockpit of a Flying Scot

Sand Lake Rec

Flying Scot

The family station wagon of sailboats — stable, roomy, beloved.

The Flying Scot has been in continuous production since 1957, and there's a reason: it's nearly impossible to outgrow. Nineteen feet long, six hundred fifty pounds of hand-laid fiberglass, and stable enough that we've never had one turtle on Sand Lake — it's the boat we hand to new skippers with young kids, and the boat our founder still races.

It seats four adults comfortably (five in a pinch), points respectably, and on a fifteen-knot northwest breeze it will put a grin on your face that lasts through dinner. Our four Scots are named Loon, Walleye, Aurora, and Tamarack, and each has its partisans.

Required to reserve

Dinghy Skipper rating

You can rig, launch, sail, capsize-recover, and land a centerboard boat by yourself, and you know when the weather says don't.

How to earn it: Complete Learn to Sail II, or pass the dinghy checkout.

The checkout: Same as the 420 checkout, plus a dock departure and return in confined water. Capsize recovery is discussed, not performed — Scots prefer to stay upright.

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