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Tanzer 14

sailboat class

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ28232084 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Tanzer 14 is a Canadian sailboat that was designed by Johann Tanzer and first built in 1970. The design no longer is produced.

Production

The boat was built by Tanzer Industries in Canada, but production had ended by the time the company went out of business in 1986.

Design

The Tanzer 14 is a small recreational sailing dinghy, built predominantly of fibreglass. It has a fractional sloop rig, a transom-hung rudder and a centreboard keel. It displaces 315 lb (143 kg).

The boat has a hull speed of 4.72 kn (8.74 km/h).

Editorial summary

“Tanzer 14” enters the record as sailboat class. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tanzer, sailboat and class can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 1986—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tanzer, sailboat and class.
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Why this record matters

“Tanzer 14” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tanzer, sailboat and class provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28232084. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970 and 1986.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tanzer 14” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.