GP14 International Class in CNC kits

We have just received a request to cost a GP14 kit,designed by Jack Holt some fifty years ago,there are hundreds of yacht clubs in the UK using this design and I find the class is active in South Africa too,we will have a kit price on the latest Mk3 design shortly.
Roy

The GP14 is another boat that resulted from the collaboration between the drawing board of Jack Holt, the eye for practicality from Bell Woodworking’s Dusty Pollock and the inspired vision of Group Captain E.F. Haylock, the then Editor of Yachting World Magazine. Having already had the foresight that ‘youth’ would be the future of sailing and commissioned the Cadet, Haylock now pursued another of his groundbreaking ideas, that as that leisure time grew, dinghy sailing would need to involve all of the members of the family. In these early post war years, none of the dinghies that were available were suitable for this purpose, as they were almost exclusively boats from the development classes, fast, with limited space cockpit space and ‘tippy’.

At Haylock’s instigation, Yachting World published a call for designers to submit plans for a multi purpose dinghy that would be stable and seaworthy, yet fast enough to offer competitive and exciting racing. The boat would have to be light enough to make for easy handling on and off a trailer and would need to be capable of being rowed or of being driven by an outboard motor and to cap it all, would have to be simple enough to allow for home construction from a kit of parts. This requirement for a single boat that could fill so many roles was so new that none of the designs submitted were acceptable. One of the best designs had come from Jack Holt, who at Haylock’s request increased the freeboard of his planned 14 ft dinghy. As with the Cadet, the design Jack finally settled on was simple, but remarkably effective. Again, it utilised a single hard chine hull that would offer a high degree of initial stability, yet the simple ‘box’ approach to the hull form meant that the boat could be easily constructed by an amateur builder in plywood. The other advantage of the Holt design was that it resulted in a large cockpit, that Jack equipped with seats, a thwart and floorboards!






Class: GP14

Status: International


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Designer: Jack Holt


Year of design: 1949


Length: 4.27m


Beam: 1.54m


Weight: 133kg


Sail Area (M²): 12.85


Spinnaker: 8.4


Sitting out Aids: n/a


Construction Notes:


Wood/GRP/FRP