International Fourteen
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14
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| Design | Development class |
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| Crew | 2 |
| Hull weight | 74.25 kg (163.7 lb) 72 kg (159 lb) (June 2011) 70 kg (150 lb) (June 2013) |
| LOA | 4,267 mm (14 ft 0 in) (excludes bowsprit and rudder) |
| Beam | 1,040 mm (3 ft 5 in) (min) 1,830 mm (6 ft 0 in) (max) |
| Mast Length | 7,626 mm (25 ft 0.2 in) |
| Spinnaker area | Unlimited (typically 32 m2 (340 sq ft)) |
| Upwind Sail Area | 18.58 m2 (200.0 sq ft) |
| RYA PN | 780 |
The International 14 is 14-foot double-handed racing dinghy. The class originated in England in the early part of the 20th century. It is sailed and raced in many countries around the world and was one of the very first true international racing dinghy classes recognised by International Sailing Federation. It is a Development Class being controlled by a set of rules that allow for innovation and changes in hull and rig design as long as they fall within a set of specific limitations such as length, weight, beam, and sail area. The class has permitted its rules to be revised at various times in its history in order to keep the class at the forefront of dinghy racing development and can now best be described as an ultralight dual-trapeze sailing dinghy with large sail area. It is often raced with boats of similar design in one-design, or non-handicap races.
There are essentially four periods in the class' history:
The displacement style, is also known as the "Before Uffa Fox Era".
Planing, which started with Uffa Fox and his deep-chested hulls, (boats named Avenger, and Alarm were quintessential examples) which were broad aft with nearly straight buttocks, and narrow forward with a deep vee; another notable boat was Windsprite, designed and built in cold-moulded plywood by Austin Farrar at Woolverstone, Suffolk, in the early 1950s, whose distinctive hull shape was emulated later in the International 505 dinghy. One of the most famous International 14s was Thunder and Lightning, sail number 409. Built in 1938 by Uffa Fox, she was sailed to victory by John Winter and Peter Scott in the Prince of Wales Cup that year. The crew was helped considerably by the revolutionary use of an early form of trapeze, which was considered unsporting by the racing authorities of the day and promptly banned. Thunder and Lightning is now based at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall.
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