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The third weekend in October saw six International 14s from Northern and Southern California converge on the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco for their annual …

Turtles, Reefs, and Mai Tai's... Escape to Kaneohe!

Hawaii PAC RIMS - April 23rd-26th.…

By Brian Haines, USA 1204

The 2019 International 14 National Championships were hosted by Southwestern Yacht Club in sunny, and unusually hot San Diego. Racing took place inside San Diego Bay on Friday September 6th, and …

Hi to all. I’ve been refurbishing a 1992 One Design and have run into a snag with the gennaker rigging. I read previous posts, but my boat was fully dissembled and I’m missing a few parts  .  I see from previous posts that the gennaker halyard runs through a floating block at the base of mast and that is attached to the bowsprit pole launching line.  My boat is missing this line.  I have a shock cord coming from the back of the bowsprit and is tied to the transom in the cockpit.  There are…

Nine I-14’s headed down to San Diego over the weekend for SuperCup held out of San Diego Yacht Club.   SuperCup is a great 14 skiff event held on the bay with short courses showcasing a mid course gate that you have to sail through both upwind and downwind.   All of the races were twice around with three minute starts and the race committee kept the boats rolling by sending off the starts quickly.

Solid crew work and positioning paid huge dividends as all of the boats found…

San Diego NOOD 2019 - by Brad Ruetenik

Twelve boats registered for the 2019 San Diego NOOD regatta.  The International 14s sailed on San Diego’s South Bay out of the Coronado Yacht Club.  This regatta also served as the I-14 West Coast Championships, thus a Distance Race is also included which has a separate…

Hello all!   Here is the Schedule for 2019 - there are a number of dates that need to be confirmed and we'll be adding some Midwest events as they get scheduled.   The larger schedule has all of the regional events listed as well (see attachments)  Look for a revised calendar in about a month but below is the main schedule below and attached.   For Main Events - we have 13 larger events spread throughout the year with Nationals in San Diego in September - should be epic Champagne conditions!…

High Winds Push I-14s to their Limits at U.S. Nationals

Amanda Witherell, Communications Manager, St. Francis Yacht Club

Twelve I-14 competitors, nearly all hailing from less breezy regions than the San Francisco Cityfront, faced three days of high winds against strong ebb tides, making just finishing a round a victory in the…

PacRim 2018 Results

By Andy Bates

International 14 Pacific Rim Championships 2018

The 2018 Pasha Hawaii International Fourteen Pacific Rim Championship Regatta was hosted at Kaneohe Yacht Club from April 7th to the 10th. The event had three sponsors, Pasha Hawaii, a local environmentally aware ocean transportation company; Hawaiian Fine Furniture who…

2018 Helly Hanson NOOD Regatta San Diego - I14 West Coast Championships

March 16 - March 18, 2018, Coronado Yacht Club, Coronado, CA

Written by: John Clark

Edited by: Jenn Virskus

Photos by: Paul Todd / OutsideImages.com

Another year, another Helly Hansen NOOD regatta in San Diego. And, like every year, this year was just as exciting with twists and turns throughout the three-day event March 16 –…

Happy New Year everyone!

Schedule Big Events (see attached for full details)

     West Coast Champs - San Diego in March

     Pac Rims - Kaneohe in…

Happy New Year everyone!

Schedule Big Events (see attached for full details)

     West Coast Champs - San Diego in March

     Pac Rims - Kaneohe in…

15 International 14’s came to Richmond Yacht Club for the biennial I-14 North American Championships.    Our Canadian friends to the North elected not to make the trip and focus their travel dollars for next years World Championships being held on the same Berkeley Circle race course in 2018 – which we certainly understand but they and their antics ;-) were certainly missed.    With the 15 skiffs that we did have the competition was very stacked with more than half the boats having at least…

by Dalton Bergan

11 I-14s braved the world-renowned Gorge conditions for their US Nationals.  Absolutely beautiful breeze-on conditions throughout the event and the week leading up for all of those who put their time in during the week. 

Radziejowski/Sjostedt finished 3^rd with outstanding upwind speed but a few too many capsizes; watch out…

Six California based 14’s headed to Santa Barbara last weekend for what has proven over the last few years to be a very light air (and sometimes no air) race course.    Santa Barbara is always beautiful and the hospitality of Santa Barbara Yacht Club is always strong and keeps getting better.  

This year the conditions proved to be different… same…

2016 International 14 Worlds

Carnac, France

By Brad Ruetenik



After 2 wks of reflection since the end of the most recent I14 worlds in Carnac France, I wanted to put down some thoughts on this most recent adventure.  As with all the other 10 worlds I have participated in over the last 20 yrs., this was a great learning event.  I always have a great time seeing and traveling to other parts of the world and more important to me, are…

Write up by Joe Bersch

Nineteen International 14’s showed up to the 2016 I-14 U.S. National Championships at Alamitos Bay Yacht Club on June 10-12 in Long Beach, CA.  ABYC has been a long-time and loyal supporter of the I-14 Fleet running one of the Fleet’s best World Championships ever in 2006 and annually running the Class’s Midwinter Championships amongst other regattas.  The 2016 I-14 Nationals follows the recent Pacific Rim Championships at Kaneohe Bay in April, 2016 (21 boats…

Check this article out...   The Beauty & Brawn of the International 14 Fleet:

Ladies in 14's... PacRims write up by Jenn Virskus