Reading Time: 9 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch A 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 …
Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch This 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 …
Reading Time: 4 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Due 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 …
Reading Time: 6 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch About 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 …
Reading Time: 4 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch The 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 …
Reading Time: 10 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Rhetorical skill, talent, and luck made the Dane, born in Aarhus in 1906, to Sweden’s mostly acknowledged yacht designer. A portrait of the unwavering representative of the elegant and sleek Scandinavian line. The following four anecdotes describe the self-made man who came from modest circumstances, the passionate sailor, the sales-minded and also self-confident Dane. Aboard Agneta …
Reading Time: 5 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch What is a Skerrycruiser or Skärgårdskryssare? Anything flat-hulled with long overhangs, made of wood, ideally with a glossy finish? This is how most sailors answer this question. In principle, that’s true, since the open design class launched in 1908 for racing in the Stockholm archipelago or Skärgård initially left a lot of freedom. Only the sail …
Reading Time: 5 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch This registry assigns boats to construction and sail numbers, further to known or presumed year of construction. The sail numbers were assigned consecutively international by Fisksätra. Identified sail numbers are marked bold. Some information is current, others based on old sources and rumours. In case you know more, please send a note. Your help contributes to …
Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Swede 55 has four separate cabins. A front cabin with double V-berth and a bathroom ahead of the mast. The main cabin in the midship area with a pantry and nav station next to the companionway. Behind the centre cockpit, there is a well separated aft cabin. Accommodation in 3 cabins spread over 43 feet (ca. …
Reading Time: 4 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Besides its elegance and length Swede 55 comes with an introvert Scandinavian shape. The slightly curved spoon bow reminds on the Twenties, when the Square Metre Boat found its final shape for racing in the Skerries, as the archipelago of the Stockholm Skärgård is known. The fine entry separates the water effortless. A closer look underneath …
