This is a learning model, not a fitting-by-fitting replica of your school’s boat. Your instructor determines launch order, sail order and tension settings for the conditions.
Courageous Sailing: controlled jibing · MIT Sailing: tacking and jibing with an extension · Cal Sailing: handover workshop · Michael Storer: handover timing. The close-up demonstrates one center-main technique with overlapping grips; rehearse your instructor’s method.
US Coast Guard navigation rules: Rules 12, 13, 16, 17 and 18, with channel and traffic-lane exceptions in Rules 9 and 10. The Rules lesson covers vessels in sight of one another in open water, not racing rules or restricted visibility.
Your assigned Flying Scot video (centerboard rollers, raised trunk and top-mounted swivel cam cleat checked against frames at 0:30–0:42; internal cable routing is schematic).
Quantum Sails: reading luff telltales and leech ribbons
RYA: points of sail · Flying Scot 2026 tuning guide
Flying Scot Inc. rigging instructions (2022), especially pp. 13–16
Builder’s boat dimensions · Daysailing and racing equipment variations
FSSA class rules and sail measurements (2026)
Builder’s halyard winch care and use
Official sail and hull plan
Also informed by your supplied book pages 22–25, 27–30, 39 and 53. Geometry is an educational approximation using the 19 ft length and 6 ft 9 in beam. Reviewed October 2026.