International 14

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Specifications Under Current Rules
14
Number of crew 2 (Double Trapeze) LWL 4267 mm 14 ft LOA (including retractable spinnaker pole) 7010 mm 23 ft Beam 1830 mm 6 ft Mast Height above hull 7626 mm 25 ft Hull weight (with fittings) 74.25 kg 164 lb Sail Area of total of Main and Jib 18.58 m³ 200 ft³ Sail Area Spinnaker Unlimited (typicallly 32sq.m 350sq.ft)

The International 14 is a racing sailing dinghy. It is an ultralight dual trapeze boat with large sail area.

The class originated in England in the early part of the 20th century, and has always been a "development" class, allowing variations in hull shape and rig, but within a fairly proscriptive set of guidelines. There have essentially been 4 periods in the class history:

1. Displacement style, or the "Before Uffa Fox Era,"

2. Planing, which started with Uffa Fox and his "deep chested" hulls, (boats named AVENGER, and ALARM were quitessential examples) which were broad aft with nearly straight buttocks, and narrow forward with a deep vee,

3. Trapeze planing, which came about decades later, when the trapeze was finally legalized in the class (it had been tried by Uffa and others in the 1930's but was banned),

4. Double-trapeze super-planing, which has gone through a number of evolutions. The concept was developed in Australia and New Zealand, a miniature version of the high-powered but lightweight Australian 18 developed by Frank Bethwaite in the later 1970's. This form of the boat really started to take form in the early 80's (but with only one trapeze) as the minimum weight was lowered and upwind planing became possible.

Contemporary boats weigh as little as 165 lb, and have as typical equipment a retractable spinnaker pole, unlimited asymetric spinnaker size, 200sq ft mainsail and jib area, a fully battened mainsail, an adjustable carbon rig, and a hydrofoil rudder that allows the boat to be trimmed for different conditions.

Since this is a development class, older boats have been obsoleted through rules changes. Many of the older boats still race in fleets of similar boats. Penultimates, also known as 'Pennies' are boats that feature much of the same technology as modern boats but are from prior to the 1996 merger between the International 14 and Aussie 14 classes. Classic boats are boats prior to 1984 and feature a symmetric spinnaker, single trapeze, and many feature cold molded wooden hulls.

Modern Hull Shapes

• Ovington 1 1995 Dave Ovington
• Bieker 2 1996 Paul Bieker
• Morrison 7e 1995
• Morrison 8 1996
• Ovington 2 1997 Dave Ovington
• Bieker 2Z 1998 Paul Bieker
• Bieker 3 1998 Paul Bieker
• Morrison 9 1998
• Ovington 3 1999 Dave Ovington
• Morrison 10 2000
• Bieker 4 2002 Paul Bieker
• Bieker 5 2005 Paul Bieker
• Beebe 2 2005 Jason Beebe
• Benji 1 2005 Le Poisson

See also

• Jack Holt [History of the Fourteens Part 4 - The Years of Challenge].

External links

• [International 14 Class website]
• [The Class History]