As promised, here is the video of Mike Scott's Ames 2 sailing with his cutdown rig, a rig which lets him really enjoy the 14 without battling the canvas we put up on these boats when we were young once.
Mike Scott, a transplanted Brit, has been a one-man show in keeping the Classic International 14 flame burning, taking his 14 Obsession to various wooden boat shows and small boat gatherings in the Pacific NorthWest.
Mike said he weighed the hull of Obsession and it only weighed 150 lbs (just under 70 kg.). Not sure why it was so light. When the Ames 2 was designed the hull weight requirement was probably just under 200 lbs. I'll have to do some research on that.
(BTW, that's Mike's wife, Kim, crewing. Mike says she is quite good at it though she doesn't want to admit that this is only one of many life skills she has acquired over the years.)
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Yeah, Kim's idea of going sailing is with a couple of beers and a bag of chips. We often would set off in balmy conditions, cruise about for an hour or do, then the wind would start to pipe up, and spray would be flying, time to head for shore, then struggle with a bucking bronco trying to get the boat back on the trailer.....but she's game and I'm a lucky guy!
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