Buying a boat is a risky step. Dreams, emotions, the desire to do something completely different are big, fuelled by a kind of midlife crisis and some money. Some people do it without a midlife crisis and money. So let’s look at the knockout criteria when buying a boat. A boat is perceived as promise and a placeholder for a …
Are you still bobbing around or sailing already? Easygoing square metre boats answer this question in their way. These beautiful light air windmills make something out of nearly nothing. Around thirty boats, from classic 15 square metre boats to a modern cruising 55 are sailing the Slim & Tender Race (Schlank & Rank Regatta) off Fehmarn at the german coast …
Headsail furling has obvious advantages. For cruising, where convenience and safety is paramount, the cloth is removed from the cockpit when the wind picks up, before mooring or in an emergency. Further, this winding technique, which is in use now for decades, conveniently adjusts the sail area. This is interesting for charterers, beginners, the occasional sailor, small crew or an …
The advantage of modern crusing square metre boats like the S30, S40 or Swede 55 is that they are made of durable and nearly maintenace free fibreglass. The boat hardly needs excessive work. You simply enjoy your precious free time aboard. Added to this is the well thought-out construction of the largest model. The deck and superstructure of Swede 55 …
What a pleasure edging this 55 sqm boat windward sitting on the ergonomically shaped coaming with small deflections on the tiller. The sensation of dinghy feeling aboard a 15 m racer. And what a feast to see this sled in ideal conditions in smooth water. The wedge-shaped cabin with the sleek windows is familiar from modern boats. And who else …
Chesnut brown mahogany, copper coloured underwater body, inclined stern. Stretched keel and an effective rudder blade. A serious spar on top. This boat was the nightmare of the square metre boat sailors at Lake Constance in the eighties in the first version. Contra as a modern 30 sqm boat At that time, Dr. Klaus Mueller from Überlingen, had boat designer …
Every sailor knows and admires the Vindoe cruising boats from the Swedish west coast. Vindoes are seventies compromises worth looking at, made of an indestructible and easy-care fibreglass hull with teak deck and handsome mahogany superstructure. A tempting mix of practicality with the traditional look and feel aboard. Swede 55 like a Vindoe In the 1980s, Finnish wooden boatbuilder Lasse …
This S30 with the build and sail number 22 is remarkable in two respects: Kauri is in excellent condition with a mint interior crafted by the Wegener boatyard and a renewed engine with Lake Constance permission (high environmental and exhaust standard). Secondly, the boat comes with a 2 m longer carbon rig, power winches and new sails. It is ideally …
Unlike other sailboats, the classic square metre and their successors for cruising are designated by sail area instead of their length or a formula. For example, the 15 stands for the smallest 15 square metre class, the 22 for the 22s, and so on. If the designation number is underlined, as in the above photo of a 30, it is …
This almost 18-metre long daysailer is so antiquated that at first glance it appears to be a coloured black-and-white foto of times gone by. However, the boat is real and not restored, a new construction from 2017. The sail geometry is also wonderfully from outdated. Three quarters of Gustaf’s sail area is in the mainsail, the rest in the forewing-like …
