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Flying Tiger 10-Meter: Rough on the Edges, Smooth on the Water

• By Tony Bessinger
• Updated: July 18, 2007

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The back-story for the Flying Tiger 10-Meter is a long one, so we’ll boil it down to a few essential facts. Bill Steven, a West Coast-based boatbuilder who has built boats in China, asked designer Bob Perry to design a sportboat that would fit into a 40-foot container and cost $50,000 or less. Perry drew a basic design and sent it off to Steven. Steven then posted the drawing on www.sailinganarchy.com and asked for comments. Commentary came fast and furious, sparking interest in the design. Steven collected $1,000 deposits for the first 50 boats, which were offered at an introductory price of $39,500, before the first boat was even built. What people were buying was a great concept: a dead-simple sportboat with a bare interior, which, thanks to its price, would perhaps someday evolve into a popular one-design class. To make the boat appeal to those who tow their boats, it was designed with a retractable keel, an easily removed, transom-hung rudder, and a swept-spreader carbon rig.We first got our hands on hull No. 6 of the Flying Tiger a the U.S. Sailboat Show in Annapolis, Md., last fall. It was the first boat delivered to the United States, and because everyone, including us, wanted it to be a part of SW’s annual Boat of the Year tests, it was a rush job to get the boat from California to the East Coast in time for the show, and then to rig it for our test sail. Rigging and hardware issues aside, it quickly became obvious the boat wasn’t ready. In mid-March at the Sperry Top-Sider NOOD in San Diego, though, we saw a fleet of eight Tigers on the starting line every day, one of which eventually won the regatta’s overall trophy, and after talking with owners, we could see that many of our issues had been addressed.Building boats at a factory halfway around the world with unskilled (at least initially) labor can be difficult, and there are usually a few missteps. The Flying Tiger 10-Meter is no exception. The first few boats came with under-specced tillers, transoms that were underbuilt, and rudder hardware that wasn’t up to the task of handling the loads of the boat’s outboard-hung rudder. Poorly designed and built class sails didn’t help its debut either. But-and this is important-we saw enough good things to figure out that Steven, Perry, and the denizens of sailinganarchy.com, have delivered exactly what was ordered-an inexpensive sportboat with good performance characteristics. The FT 10-M’s construction is cored fiberglass, except for the single-skin cabin top, and where fiberglass spine frames are located. Unlike many boats, the core in the way of the structural spine was removed, and brought to a single skin laminate, which is thinner than the cored laminate. The structural spine provides localized stiffness where it’s attached, but unless the single skin area has stiffness similar to the cored laminate (through extra layers of fiberglass), a fatigue area can develop in this single skin between the edges of the spine and the cored laminate. The interior has an agricultural, unfinished feel, but will serve well for what most people will do with the Flying Tiger-day race. There are spots where we could see daylight through the laminate, but only in low-stress areas. The settee seats look good until you sit on them, then the 29 inches of headroom will have you leaning inboard. The two bunks under the cockpit are the best berths in the house, especially for overnight races, but again, the FT 10-M isn’t supposed to be any more palatial than any other similarly sized sportboat. There’s plenty of room for storage of essential items, and the deck keeps the rain out. A good aftermarket add-on would be a gasket to keep water from seeping in around the retractable bowsprit.The cockpit is larger, and deeper (17″) than you’ll normally see in 32-foot sportboats, and there’s room for a crew of four or five to work the boat around a racecourse. In San Diego, we saw boats sailing with six or seven crew, which jibes with the class-mandated maximum crew weight of 1,050 pounds. The forward hatch is molded into the forward part of the deckhouse, and wisely, Perry and Steven didn’t even try to make it out of clear polycarbonate, just fiberglass, so it should stand up to abuse well. It’s also plenty large enough for spinnaker takedowns and launches. A tall helmsman will find the lifelines uncomfortable, especially if the boat is heeled over enough to require using the footblocks. Owners who sail in an area where lifelines aren’t required would benefit from taking them off completely, or at least lowering them where the helmsman sits. The nonskid on our test boat was adequate, but not great. We’ve been told that it has since been improved. Immediately aft of the companionway is a well for an outboard engine, with doors that close flush with the hull when the engine is retracted. On our test sail the doors kept opening, but we’ve been told that issue has been resolved.We sailed the Flying Tiger in a fresh 10- to 18-knot breeze last fall. Despite the rush getting the boat together, it held up and sailed well. It tracked well upwind, was easy to get in a groove and stay there, tacked through high angles, and had more of a big-boat feel than some other sportboats we’ve sailed, due in part to its high sides. Off the wind, the game was to put the boat on an angle where it would surf and plane, and keep it there, which was easy to do. In some of the bigger gusts, we recorded boatspeeds of around 16 knots. Granted, there was some current, but sailing at such speeds despite an untuned rig and stretchy halyards is an indication that a well set-up Flying Tiger will be a lot of fun to sail both upwind and down.The San Diego NOOD was a baptism of fire for the eight Flying Tiger owners and their crews, most of whom had little or no time in their boats. We spoke to a few owners and crews and heard many positive comments. When it came time to figure out what class was the most competitive, in order to declare an overall regatta winner, the organizers chose the Flying Tiger class. Class winner Scot Tempesta, the founder of sailinganarchy.com, was declared the overall winner, which seems to bring the story of the Flying Tiger full circle.

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FLYING TIGER 10M Detailed Review

If you are a boat enthusiast looking to get more information on specs, built, make, etc. of different boats, then here is a complete review of FLYING TIGER 10M. Built by Xiamen Hansheng Yacht Building Co. Ltd. and designed by Robert Perry, the boat was first built in 2005. It has a hull type of Lifting Keel and LOA is 9.95. Its sail area/displacement ratio 32.22. Its auxiliary power tank, manufactured by undefined, runs on undefined.

FLYING TIGER 10M has retained its value as a result of superior building, a solid reputation, and a devoted owner base. Read on to find out more about FLYING TIGER 10M and decide if it is a fit for your boating needs.

Boat Information

Boat specifications, sail boat calculation, rig and sail specs, contributions, who designed the flying tiger 10m.

FLYING TIGER 10M was designed by Robert Perry.

Who builds FLYING TIGER 10M?

FLYING TIGER 10M is built by Xiamen Hansheng Yacht Building Co. Ltd..

When was FLYING TIGER 10M first built?

FLYING TIGER 10M was first built in 2005.

How long is FLYING TIGER 10M?

FLYING TIGER 10M is 9.24 m in length.

What is mast height on FLYING TIGER 10M?

FLYING TIGER 10M has a mast height of 12.24 m.

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Flying tiger 10m

The flying tiger 10m is a 32.66ft fractional sloop designed by robert h. perry and built in fiberglass by xiamen hansheng yacht building co. ltd. since 2005., 110 units have been built..

The Flying tiger 10m is an ultralight sailboat which is a very high performer. It is very stable / stiff and has a low righting capability if capsized. It is best suited as a racing boat.

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Flying Tiger 7.5

Sailboat class / from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The Flying Tiger 7.5 is a Chinese trailerable sailboat that was designed by American naval architect Robert Perry as a one design racer . It was first built in 2009. [1] [2] [3]

The design has been built by Hansheng Yachtbuilding in Xiamen , China, since 2009 and remains in production. [1] [4] [5]

The Flying Tiger 7.5 is a scaled-down version of Perry's Flying Tiger 10M design, with more of a design emphasis on family sailing, as the 10 M requires a heavy crew to sail. The 7.5 hull uses aft chines to add stability and make planing easier. The rig was developed with input from sailmaker Bob Pattison of Neil Pryde Sails and the spars were designed by CST Spars of Sydney, Australia. Like the 10 M, this design received a lot of feedback and suggestions via internet forums . [3]

The design is a racing keelboat , built predominantly of E-glass resin infusion process. It has a fractional sloop rig, with a deck-stepped mast, two sets of 28 degree swept spreaders that eliminate the need for a backstay and carbon fiber spars. The hull has a plumb stem with a retractable bowsprit , a slightly reverse transom , a removable transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a lifting keel with bulb weight. The keel is made from fiberglass and carbon biber over a foam core. The rudder is made from carbon fiber and E-glass . The boat displaces 2,150   lb (975   kg) and carries 1,190   lb (540   kg) of ballast. [1] [3]

The boat has a draft of 6.00   ft (1.83   m) with the keel extended. With it retracted, the boat can be operated in shallow water or ground transported on a trailer . [1] [3]

The boat is normally fitted with a small transom-mounted outboard motor for docking and maneuvering. [1] [3]

The design has an unfinished interior, but does have two settee berths for sleeping accommodation. [3]

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with an asymmetrical spinnaker flown from the bowsprit. [1] [3]

The design has a PHRF handicap of 84 to 93. [6]

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• [2] McArthur, Bruce (2022). "Robert Perry" . sailboatdata.com . Archived from the original on 26 February 2021 . Retrieved 6 January 2023 .
• [3] Perry, Robert H (9 May 2009). "Flying Tiger 7.5M" . Sailing Magazine . Archived from the original on 7 January 2023 . Retrieved 7 January 2023 .
• [4] McArthur, Bruce (2023). "Xiamen Hansheng Yacht Building Co. Ltd" . sailboatdata.com . Archived from the original on 6 January 2023 . Retrieved 7 January 2023 .
• [5] Sea Time Tech, LLC (2022). "Xiamen Hansheng Yacht Building Co. Ltd" . sailboat.guide . Archived from the original on 6 January 2023 . Retrieved 6 January 2023 .
• [6] US Sailing (2022). "PHRF Handicaps" . ussailing.org . Retrieved 6 January 2023 .

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2014 Flying Tiger 7.5 ( reduced price)

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2014 Flying Tiger 7.5 with trailer is for sale. Yes, this was one of the National One Design fleet. It is perfect for day sailing or as a club racer, with a proven stable platform to go fast. It is in good shape. It has a carbon fiber mast, boom, and retractable sprit. I have recently purchased some standing rigging and lines (2020), a new North square top mainsail and medium jib (2020 – aramid NLXi09v2), a new North A2 asymmetric (2020 Airex 600 Bain), a new 2020 Suzuki 3.5 4hp outboard engine. It also comes with a Velocitek Prostart and various safety equipment. It is in indoor storage awaiting her new owner.

Specs are: LOA:24’10”, Beam: 8’1”, Draft 6’ down, Displacement 2150lbs

There are lots of comments on this website about the design, and you can google for more info.

I had my fun on this boat, but I want to sail in a one design fleet. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

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