Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Swede 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 …
Reading Time: 4 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch I have been sailing since childhood in the sixties, beginning with dinghies like Optimist, Europe, 420, Pirat. 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 specialized professionally in boating topics, in the early nineties focused on classic …
Reading Time: 4 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch A 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 …
Reading Time: 2 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch All 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 …
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 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch A 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 …
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 …
Reading Time: 6 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch A while ago Richard Natmeßnig invited me for an afternoon aboard his Swede 41 Classic. Having spent an unforgettable afternoon at the tiller of his boat named Sleipnir on Fehmarnsund, I vividly remember this tempting experience. Swede 41 Classic with a lot of sail area Interested in sailing and familiar with Square Metre Boats, I found …
Reading Time: 7 minutes→ Article in German This 13-metre racer is an important boat for the Skerry Cruiser scene in Northern Germany. With Aurora, Georg Milz brought his idea for a sailing event from the 2008 centenary of the Square Metre Class from Stockholm to Fehmarn. She gifted fans of true and classic Skerry Cruisers and their successors, the fabulous Schlank & Rank …
Reading Time: 5 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Advantages and disadvantages of the slender and long Square Metre Boat, the development of the so-called Skerry Cruiser, and how beam is measured since 1925. A brief look at the compromise between minimal water resistance in light wind and the ability to carry sail in a fresh breeze. Rapid Skerry Cruiser development in the 1910s The …
