Reading Time: 5 minutesThis registry assigns boats to construction and sail numbers, further to known or presumed year of construction. The sail numbers were assigned international consecutively 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 improving this register. Boats …
Reading Time: 3 minutesSwede 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. 13 m) The midship …
Reading Time: 4 minutesBesides its elegance and length Swede 55 comes with an introvert Scandinavian shape. The spoon bow reminds on the Twenties, when the Square Metre Class found its final mould 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 the bow reveals how Reimers reduced …
Reading Time: 3 minutesSwede 55 half model For dining room, library or guest room. Size, colour, and finish of the carrier plate as you want it. Ideal gift for the Swede 55-aficionado. Here you see the classy version with bare hull and deck. Scale of displayed model 1:15, hull length 43 inch (1.09 m). Other scales and sizes are possible. You are welcome …
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have been sailing since my childhood in the sixties, beginning with dinghies. Since the mid-seventies open keel boats such as Dyas and Cruising Square Metre Boats type Lotus, since 1980 Swede 55. At the end of the eighties, I also specialized professionally in boating topics, at the beginning of the nineties focused on classic yachts, meter classes, yacht measurements, …
Reading Time: 4 minutesA unique fleet of nine pretty special light wind racers, inspired by the classic 40 m2 Square Metre Boat also known as Skerrycruiser or Skärgårdskryssare, is now sailing on Lake Balaton. Insights into this class, which is only known in Hungary. With the collapse of communism in Hungary in 1989, the economy of scarcity also ended on the water. After …
Reading Time: 2 minutesAll data of Swede 55 obtained from brochures and own measurements aboard Gamle Swede: hull dimensions, weight, rig dimensions, nominal sail area and actual sail sizes. Cabin heights, tank capacities, engine and transmission, various international ratings/racing certificates. This information has been compiled from Gamle Swede and other Swede 55 over the past decades. This is just a fraction of what …
Reading Time: 5 minutesA few bottles of vinegar essence and five hours of work. Descaling the cooling channels of your boat engine significantly extends its service life. Why, contrary to engine dealer’s advice, converting to dual-circuit cooling yet is worth the job in most cases. Here is a DIY instruction on how you achieve this. Indispensable fresh water cooling and seawater filter Boats …
Reading Time: 9 minutesA crush on this originally Swedish, temporarily Finnish and recently Swiss example of the 75 m2 Skerry Cruiser of 1918. How Gun keeps eight caregiving sailors happy and busy while pleasing spectators on Lake Constance. Finally, the question of who will continue this fabulous story. Let’s start with an almost forgotten detail, this arched coach roof made of maroon brown …
Reading Time: 6 minutesFor decades, the largest contiguous fleet of 40 Square Metre Boats has been sailing on Lake Starnberg. An afternoon aboard Aphrodite, one of the latest examples launched by Munich boat builder Helmut Fischer, explains why. Bavarian singer-songwriter and cabaret artist Georg Ringsgwandl once named ‘watching television, drinking and playing golf’ as the Germans’ favourite leisure activity. It would be sad …
