I got a little bored of planes so here’s this
Overview
The GP14 is a popular sailing dinghy, with well over 14,000 built.
The class is active in the UK, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, Sri Lanka and parts of north-eastern USA, and the GP 14 can be used for both racing and cruising.
The GP14 was designed by Jack Holt in 1949, with the assistance of the Dovey Yacht Club in Aberdyfi. The concept behind the design was to provide an inexpensive and accessible family dingy which could be towed behind a small family car and operated with a crew of two, it was intended to be either sailed or rowed or even powered by a small outboard motor.
Design and manufacture
Design
The dinghy is a simple monohull with a single centreboard which is lowed for sailing to increase stability (see above) and raised for landing and towing, it was initially designed to be rigged with a mainsail and relatively small Jib (triangular foresail) as shown on this example but was later rigged with a full racing rig of mainsail, Genoa and spinnaker.
Manufacture
The image above shows an original advertising booklet for Bell Woodworking Co. Ltd., the dinghy was designed to allow it to be home built by amateurs, by carpenters or by professional boatbuilders initially with a wooden hull, which later became plastic and then eventually fibreglass.
Personal Note
This is based off of my own dinghy with the sail number 3356 matching my own as well as hull colour and gloss varnish, the dinghy is currently being restored from a state of somewhat neglect by the previous owner and I have not yet gotten to sail it.
You will need at least some knowledge of sailing to operate this so please comment if you would like me to explain
Controls
VTOL up- loosen jib
Yaw- well…Yaw
Roll- swings the boom
Trim- rudder trim
Landing gear- Raise centreboard
Screenshots
Size comparison for those of you who don’t quite understand how small 14 foot is
Specifications
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General Characteristics
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- Wingspan 5.0ft (1.5m)
- Length 17.6ft (5.4m)
- Height 22.7ft (6.9m)
- Empty Weight 840lbs (381kg)
- Loaded Weight 840lbs (381kg)
Performance
- Wing Loading 6.7lbs/ft2 (32.5kg/m2)
- Wing Area 126.1ft2 (11.7m2)
- Drag Points 0
Parts
- Number of Parts 249
- Control Surfaces 0
- Performance Cost 854
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I sailed away to China
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Didn't want no one to hold you
What does that mean ?
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Ain't nothin' gonna break-a my stride
Nobody gonna slow me down
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Ain't nothin' gonna break-a my stride
I'm running and I won't touch ground
Oh no, I got to keep on movin'
Ain't nothin' gonna break-a my stride
Nobody's gonna slow me down, oh no
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It works better backwards
Dank boat. I’m gonna weaponize this😀👍
I managed to get her to 100 mph on 60 mph winds
You need to build more boats dude
Reminds me of a sunfish, very well done.
Wise words @WarHawk95
Great boat with finest controls. I like it!
Awesome! Very functional, even though I don't know what most of the things do. I kinda need a tutorial lmao
Great job, I did the dayskipper course years back and always just wanted a dinghy/trailer-sailor to potter about in.
I love this!
This is really fun to sail! I managed to get to 40 kts in only 15 kts if wind!
Although this one of the best sailing boats I’ve seen here, I do have a couple of niggles:
1. It slips sideways a bit much, especially when sailing at low speeds. Fluid dynamics don’t exist in SP so you need to add way more wing with below water stuff.
2. The mast could swing around a bit more. The stiffness of it makes tracking kinda annoying... though I really enjoy how you made it move. Maybe you could have used a winch with the same input to move the sail.
@scratch thanks
It's great! Even with little sailing knowledge I can easily sail this
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