Reading Time: 5 minutes→ Article in German 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→ Article in German 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 minutesHow 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 Skärgårdskryssare, it is his …
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 minutesSince 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 Boat with K for …
Reading Time: 9 minutesA memory of the Dragon sailor and boat builder Børge Børresen, who developed and built the wonderful three-man keelboat in his yard in Vejle, where the popular BB10 was created and the Soling Olympic class was built. Brønsodde on the northern shore of Vejle Fjord in Jutland. Almost 9 metres of elegantly joined Honduras mahogany are hanging below the chain …
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis 68 footer was developed by Håkan Södergren in 2008 as a taller sister of Swede 55. At first sight it is the same boat just bigger due the sailor saying. Actually, Swede 68 is 15 feet (4.57 metres) longer, nearly three feet (80 cm) wider and designed with a raised freeboard. This would offer more room below deck. Swede …
Reading Time: 4 minutesDue to the turbulent development of the Square Metre Class during its first decades, the design, and boat building regulations became repeatedly more precise. In 1925, the Skerry Cruiser Rule was fundamentally revised. So the Skerry Cruiser Rule, as we know it today, is a hundred years old now in its final fourth version. The Square Metre Boat aficionados quietly …
Reading Time: 6 minutesAbout the 6-metre Yacht ‘Hamburg’, her famous first owner, and sailing a fabulous metre class at all. And about sailing as a performing art, whose fleeting pleasure is permanently captured at the right moment. Have you ever heard of Erich Ferdinand Laeisz? He was a professional and private tall ship sailor. His Hamburg shipping company provided him with the money …
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe story of this Swede 55 successor reveals, what can be done with a tiller-steered 52-footer, racing the south and west coasts of England, including the Fastnet Race or on the Côte d’Azur. Universal Hartbeat is steered like a dinghy with a tiller extension instead of a wheel. Almost all the crew is sitting on the high edge. This is …
