CD 14--How does it sail?

[Dan Weeks]

In a couple words, Damn Well. My Dad bought hull #54 new in 1965, and I've been sailing the boat every since. Though it doesn't point as well as a sloop, it does fairly well upwind. It is quite fast for a displacement hull--I've got a water wand speedometer that maxes out at 7 knots, and have had the float slammed hard against the upper stop, with water spraying past it out the top of the tube on several occasions. My Dad beached it hard in the surf one dusty day in Gloucester with 5 of us (three kids) aboard, with no damage. It's VERY seaworthy for it's size--great in a chop. Nothing can make it pound. Also, it is remarkably stable. The heavy board helps. With that down, and one adult sitting on either side of the centerboard trunk and the skipper astern, all on the boat's bottom, not on the seats, it almost feels like a little keel boat. I've had it out in well over 20 knot winds, and though I was spilling wind, felt in no danger of a capsize. It's a hell of a good little boat. Rows like a dream. As for a previously mentioned comparison with the 10s, My dad and I class raced it in the mid sixties, and the 14s were proportionally faster than the 10s, which raced the same course at the same time, as I remember. So I beg to differ with the previously quoted source. I'll own mine till the day I die, and then will it to my grandkids.



danweeks@theprofileco.com

[Ken Coit]

Dan,

Thanks for that note. I must get my 14 back in the water next Spring. I guess it will be a nice Winter project to replace the mahogany gunnels that some *&^%$# let rot by storing the boat inverted without a cover.

Keep on sailing!

Ken
CD/14 #538
CD/36 Parfait
Raleigh, NC

In a couple words, Damn Well. My Dad bought hull #54 new in 1965, and I've been sailing the boat every since. Though it doesn't point as well as a sloop, it does fairly well upwind. It is quite fast for a displacement hull--I've got a water wand speedometer that maxes out at 7 knots, and have had the float slammed hard against the upper stop, with water spraying past it out the top of the tube on several occasions. My Dad beached it hard in the surf one dusty day in Gloucester with 5 of us (three kids) aboard, with no damage. It's VERY seaworthy for it's size--great in a chop. Nothing can make it pound. Also, it is remarkably stable. The heavy board helps. With that down, and one adult sitting on either side of the centerboard trunk and the skipper astern, all on the boat's bottom, not on the seats, it almost feels like a little keel boat. I've had it out in well over 20 knot winds, and though I was spilling wind, felt in no danger of a capsize. It's a hell of a good little boat. Rows like a dream. As for a previously mentioned comparison with the 10s, My dad and I class raced it in the mid sixties, and the 14s were proportionally faster than the 10s, which raced the same course at the same time, as I remember. So I beg to differ with the previously quoted source. I'll own mine till the day I die, and then will it to my grandkids.

parfait@nc.rr.com