Rascal 14
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|designer = Ray Greene
|location = United States
|year = 1961
|no built = 3,000
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|builder = Ray Greene & Company
|role = Sailing dinghy
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|draft = {{convert|3.00|ft|m|abbr=on}} with the centerboard down
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|displacement = {{convert|400|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}}
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|hull type = Monohull
|construction = Fiberglass
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|keel type = centerboard
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|rudder type = transom-mounted rudder
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|rig type = Bermuda rig
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|sailplan = Fractional rigged sloop
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|d-pn = 108.9
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The Rascal 14 is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by Ray Greene and first built in 1961.{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/rascal-14|title= Rascal 14 sailboat |access-date= 4 August 2020|last= McArthur| first= Bruce |work= sailboatdata.com|year= 2020|archive-url= https://archive.today/20200804145133/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/rascal-14|archive-date= 4 August 2020|url-status= live}}Sherwood, Richard M.: A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition, pages 44-45. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. {{ISBN|0-395-65239-1}}
The Rascal 14 design was developed into the slightly modified Rascal II.
Production
The design was built by Ray Greene & Company in the United States. The company built 3,000 examples of the design starting in 1961, but production had ended by the time the company went out of business in 1975.{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/builder/ray-greene-co|title= Ray Greene & Co. 1947 - 1975 |access-date= 4 August 2020|last= McArthur| first= Bruce |work= sailboatdata.com|year= 2020|archive-url= https://archive.today/20200804145130/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/ray-greene-co|archive-date= 4 August 2020|url-status= live}}
Design
The Rascal 14 is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with teak wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig with black-colored, hard-coated aluminum spars and a tabernacle-mounted mast. The hull has a spooned plumb stem, a vertical transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable centerboard mounted in an enclosed trunk. It displaces {{convert|400|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}} and can be fitted with a {{convert|160|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} spinnaker.
The boat has a draft of {{convert|3.00|ft|m|abbr=on}} with the centerboard extended and {{convert|11|in|cm|abbr=on}} with it retracted, allowing beaching or ground transportation on a trailer.
For sailing the design is equipped with a jib window and adjustable jib tracks. Foam flotation provides positive buoyancy and the boat has two storage lockers, one forward and one aft.
The design has a Portsmouth Yardstick racing average handicap of 108.9 and is normally raced with a crew of two sailors.
Operational history
See also
References
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External links
- [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3torp2lkIe4/hqdefault.jpg Photo of a Rascal 14]
{{Sailing dinghies and skiffs}}
Category:1960s sailboat type designs