Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch The privilege to be aboard is the experience of so many moods. Early departure to hoist the sails. Classy upwind sailing with some heel. Exhilarating down wind runs. Eager racing with bold moves on chess board between the marks. Quiet anchoring with the water murmuring gently along the hull. Gamle Swede was the last Swede 55 …
Reading Time: 8 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch There are so many topics when it comes to equipping a boat that the storm jib is often overlooked. Selection and purchase are not taken serious. Surprisingly, the standard literature provides nothing here. Even the 32nd edition of the German Seamanship, the Handbook for Yachting from 2019 only mentions this important sail. Adlard Coles’ reference book …
Reading Time: 6 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Skerry cruisers and their modern cruising versions, such as the S30, Jubilee S40 and Swede 55, are sensitive boats. Despite their light displacement, low freeboard and elegant lines, they handle a lot of wind. They are sailed in a different manner compared to contemporary wide and significantly heavier boats. When the wind picks up, you are …
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 …
