Dinghy or KeelBoat....

JOG is one of the major organisers of offshore and coastal yacht racing from the south coast and has informally defined its mission as running "racing for boats with beds". However I don't think oil tankers are invited.

Keelboat and yacht are different things. A keelboat is a boat with a keel. A yacht is a boat with beds. There are multihull yachts without keels and a large number of racing keelboat classes that are not yachts, FF being a case in point.

FFs do indeed have a class in Cowes Week, which is a keelboat regatta.

If Y&Y are classing the K6 and Elite as "yachts", that's just wrong. There are boats where the line between keelboat and yacht is a bit blurred, and there is the whole "what's a sportsboat" question, but in no way on earth is the K6 a "yacht".

Hi everyone,

The Flying Fifteen has always been listed as a Keelboat in the RYA (PY) scheme.  This is obviously because it can not be listed under the scheme's other categories of Centreboard, Cruisers  or Multihull.  Funnily enough, the Y & Y classes section does not have a Keelboat section and there are some differences as to how boats have been classified e.g. the Flying Fifteen, SB 3 and the Squib are in the Dinghies section but the RS Elite and RS K6 are in the Yachts section.  It is obviously all done on purpose just to confuse us all. In my experience, Flying Fifteens have always been allowed in large handicap dinghy events such as the Bloody Mary but I think that I am right in saying that they also appear as a 'fleet' at Cowes Week and other similar 'yachting' events.

Ian  (Yokshire Dales S.C.)