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, also to known or probable years of construction. Sail numbers were assigned consecutively international by the first builder, Fisksätra Varv. Identified sail numbers are marked bold in this overview. Some information is current, others is based on old sources and rumours. In case you know more, please …
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 …
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: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch This is the story of a well-travelled, then long decommissioned Swede 55. Follow her wake from Fisksätra Varv in Västervik in Sweden to the island of Guernsey, where her first German owner sold her. She sailed on via southern France to Antigua, crossed the Atlantic several times in American and British ownership, went to Norway and …
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 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch A 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 is still worth the job in most cases. Here is a DIY instruction. Indispensable freshwater cooling and seawater filter Boats are bought …
