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Here are some excerpts form e-mail sent in by Dr. Wayne S. from San
Diego sailing a Frisco Flyer named "Sumatra" a Type II Flyer
Model: Frisco Flyer.
This name was not bestowed by the company; they produced it first as a "Pacific
Clipper" and I believe I once saw an ad from an authorized broker calling it an
"Offshore 26." The name "Frisco Flyer" originated with the
Richard Reed yacht brokerage in San Francisco. In correspondence with me the company sent
me a copy of a brochure in which the boat is described as a "modified
Folkboat." The Folkboat was originally designed by Tord Sunden, and
modifications to the design were made by unnamed Cheoy Lee staff. There are three types,
all available with various options (diesel vs. gas, stainless vs. plow steel rigging,
canvas vs. teak decks, etc.):
a. Pacific Clipper: all teak, small trunk cabin, original Folkboat-like fractional
rig with double spreaders and returning shrouds.. Later called a Frisco Flyer Mark
I.
b. Frisco Flyer Mark II, larger teak trunk cabin, masthead rig.
c. Frisco Flyer Mark III, larger teak doghouse cabin, some standing headroom,
masthead rig.
The first one built was built in 1957 and made two single-handed Atlantic crossings
that year, after which the company went into production on the model.
The movie titled "Thief of Hearts," is a film in which a
Frisco Flyer Type II was prominently featured. That boat, "Steppenwolf,"
is the
one which was later singlehanded by Joe Yeager of San Diego through the Panama Canal and
up the East Coast.
Best-- Wayne Stromberg
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Boat- "SUMATRA"
- Cheoy Lee Frisco Flyer, Type II
OWNER - Dr Wayne Stromberg
AREA OF SAILING - San Diego California
E-Mail Wayne
Wayne has been very helpful in building the information on this site, sending in
many original brochures...
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LOA - 25'
Beam - 7'2"
Draft - 3'11"
Displacement - 5,500Lbs
Ballast (Cast Iron) - 2,240Lbs
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Posted by Wayne on April 23, 1998 at 11:04:46:
In Reply to: Cheoy Lee 27 "Frisco
Flyer" posted by Dave Scott on April 21, 1998 at 23:40:59:
My Frisco Flyer is a 1964.
Cheoy Lee modified the Folkboat design (by Tord Sunden in about 1942) from 25' 3" to
25' 0" and built a prototype in, as I recall, 1956, of wood. The company had the
prototype sailed twice, singlehanded, across the Atlantic that year. When it went well,
they went into production with an all teak model (the Type 1) in 1957. They produced
several hundred of these. The company referred to these as Pacific Clippers. One of the
big dealers was the R. Reed brokerage in San Francisco, which referred to them as Frisco
Flyers; the name stuck. In 1963, keeping the teak model in production, they came out with
a fiberglass model (the type II) with a slightly larger trunk cabin, same length and hull
design, nice interior cabinetry. All wood above the deck except for fiberglass overlays
for the deck top. On later models the teak decks were laid over fiberglass; on earlier
ones, over Bruynzeel marine plywood. Somewhere around 1966 they came out with the Type
III, which has a doghouse cabin, mast stepped on deck, no transom deck to speak of
(cockpit is moved toward the transom deck).
The boats have made a remarkable number of interesting voyages-- several to
Hawaii, the Tuamotus and Marquesas, etc. One was sailed to New Zealand from Santa Barbara,
with about three years in the South Pacific. Some have sailed to Nicaragua.
The company is as responsive as they can be to requests for information, but
on these older models they don't have much paperwork left. You can learn a fair amount
about them from reading ads and reviews from the late fifties and early sixties.
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