Reading Time: 4 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch When the popular S30, a family-friendly cruising version of the classic 30 m2 skerry cruiser, was launched in the early 1970s, the idea was to create an easy-care and affordable boat. In other words, a contemporary utility item made of plastic with little wood on deck. Just the tiller, the cockpit benches and the teak grating …
Reading Time: 8 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch About the false start, the fuck-up version, the start on the wrong side, or carefully approaching the starting line. And about hopelessly trailing the fleet in the Olympic loser spirit. Five starting variations that can be combined endlessly. Starting is as incomprehensible as golf. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. The difference between sailing and …
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Square Metre Boat as invented in 1908 was built in various classes from 15 und 150 sqm. Thanks to its elegance and fun aboard it was soon admired also beyond Swedish waters. Due to his international contacts in 1955, Knud Reimers drew a 22 sqm class boat for a client in Chicago. Soon other wooden examples followed and even …
Reading Time: 7 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Due to common sense any very long and slender boat is a skerry cruiser. In fact, it is a boat type that originated from the Skerry Cruiser Rules agreed upon in Stockholm in 1908. These rules were fundamentally revised in 1916, 1920, and finally in 1925, and have remained in effect ever since. A look back …
Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Every cruising sailing boat today comes with a folding Sprayhood. Many yachts even have a solid windscreen or a permanent deckhouse. So you sit in the cockpit protected from the wind and water. This is comfy for sailing on chilly nights, in spring and autumn, and in the cold waters of the north. Unfortunately, this practical …
Reading Time: 5 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Swede 55 was built as a fibreglass production boat by Fisksätra Varv in Västervik, at the east coast of Sweden. As being customary in the 1970s, Swede 55 turned out remarkably robust with a solid laminated hull, carefully sized wall thicknesses and well-thought-out reinforcements. Due to anticipated speed and twisting in rough seas, the slender hull …
Reading Time: 10 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch As a glance into our clubs, marinas, and ports shows, today’s mass-produced plastic boats are easy to maintain. And due to the endlessly adhered-to more-principle, they are getting higher all around, wider at the rear, and fuller at the bow to offer even more comfort. Probably 5,000 of them are berthed just around Lübeck Bay. The …
Reading Time: 6 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch How this Knud Reimers design from 1943 became a template for his Skerry cruisers and other boats, like his Cruising Square Metre Boats. During the Second World War, Knud Reimers designed a new 30 m2 skerry cruiser for the Hudiksvall merchant E. Ståhlquist. As far as can be ascertained from Per Thelander’s excellent chronicle Alla våra …
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe double-ended boat is a peculiarity of Anglo-Saxon yacht design and rarely seen on Square Metre Boats and Metre Class Yachts. Nevertheless, Uffa Fox and Francis Lewis Herreshoff designed a few Skerry Cruisers as double-enders in the thirties. The 8 metre-class yacht Angelita, which won the gold medal in the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1932, was a double-ender as …
Reading Time: 12 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Since 1934, these mahogany planks have been a force to be reckoned with. For the past three decades, a Bavarian has maintained and sailed the boat of the fearless offshore sailor Herbert George ‘Blondie’ Hasler. Although the trained combat diver only had one good season on it, it left a lasting impression. Classy 30 Square Metre …
