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Re: 14 with a centerboard?

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From: Daniel Widmer (dwidmer@prstrategy.com)
Date: Sat 29 Jan 2000 - 23:25:05 GMT

I have an old Fourteen built in 1945 (US 360) that utilizes a centerboard
and centerboard case instead of the modern daggerboard. The case is over six
feet long to house the centerboard when raised. A line from the CB control
arm (a two-foot long, one inch square extension of the six-foot-long board)
runs forward to a pulley housed inside the mast step, where another control
line runs aft to the helmsman for controlling the plate depth, etc.

The CB rests and rotates on a pin running through the case. When the board
is fully lowered, the angle of the recess in the plate itself prevents the
all-wood board from floating up. However, when the board is partially
raised, thus cocked aft, the board is able to float up from the pin and back
into the case, in some cases rising so high that the control arm hits the
boom and the plate comes completely out of the water.

I currently use a bungee cord to wedge the board against the CB case when
reaching or running off the wind. I'm not sure when the I-14s moved from CB
construction to daggerboards, but it was probably a good move. Much of my
difficulty sailing the boat is controlling the centerboard.

So there's your precedent. As far as competitiveness, this antique isn't,
but that's not to say that a new CB boat wouldn't be...

--Dan
US 360, 1945
built to Alarm's lines

<p><p><p><p><p>At 06:34 PM 1/29/00 -0400, Patrick LaRoche wrote:
>I too am interested in this due to the see bed where I sail. I sail in a
>staright that has sand banks under about 1 foot of water for miles. If I
>ever hit one at top speed, I'm sure my boat would break in half. Any
>thoughts?
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>Patrick
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>>From: shalperi@sas.upenn.edu (Samuel Halperin)
>>To: 14list@i14.org
>>Subject: 14 with a centerboard?
>>Date: Sat, Jan 29, 2000, 3:18 AM
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>>Hey here's one for the list:
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>> Would it be possible to build an I14 with a centerboard instead of a
>>daggerboard? Would it be competitive?
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>>The reason I ask is that I sail out of Loveladies NJ a bay inside of Long
>>Beach Island where the water can go from 10 feet to no feet without warning.
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>>Any replies would be apreciated as to competitveness. design suggestions,
>>precedents..etc
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>>thanks
>>sam halperin
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