Reading Time: 4 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch The contemporary sailboat is high, wide, and chunky. This Spirit 52 D reminds on the mayor purpose of a sailboat: being connected to the water with immediate response at the helm, seeing the breeze ahead and looking nice. For this custom-built manufacture, headroom and similar considerations were secondary. So this one off by Sprit Yachts is …
Reading Time: 6 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch The Square Metre Boat cruising variant Swede 55 is delighting sailors all around the globe. Although series production ended in 1979, with Gamle Swede as hull number 27 launched by Fisksätra Varv, 18 more boats followed. One of them, technically and in terms of sailing the most interesting, is Cheyenne. Göran Lindgren got his dream boat …
Reading Time: 2 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch The cruising versions of the Square Metre Boat such as the Knud Reimers designed S30 and Swede 55 from the seventies have successors. Here you see some Videos of Swede 41 Classic named Sleipnir launched 2018 and the Swede 55 successor named Cheyenne launched 2002. Swede 41 Classic Sleipnir The helmsman with the hat is Stockholm …
Reading Time: 6 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Why the rudder should have a different shape of the keel fin. Which shape was chosen in advanced boat building in the 1970s? What is recommended today? What helps to avoid the stalling effect? How you determine the ideal profile for your boat. Following the first article on suitable bushings for the rudder bearing and the …
Reading Time: 5 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Whatever moves on a boat wears out and eventually needs to be repaired. Even the rudder blade. After stopping the noise at my Swede 55 with suitable bushings as described here, I noticed that it was still rattling. The question was why. So I dismantled it in the fall and loaded it onto the luggage rack …
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe appeal of a special type of sailing photography, showing the action half above and half of the aquarium-green water below. How southern German water sports photographer Ulli Seer became inspired by George Greenoughs Psychedelic Surf movies of the Seventies and Berlin outdoor photographer Soeren Hese later carried on. Technical challenges and how they were mastered in analogue times and …
Reading Time: 5 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch In the 1970s, admirers of the beautiful Johan Anker-designed keelboat Dragon, the classy 30 Square Metre Boat, the Swiss Lacustre or the Folkboat had a problem. A wooden boat needs a lot of attention, time, and skilled craftsmanship. And it is expensive to build new. So the future of these fine boats was uncertain. The solution …
Reading Time: 9 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch An overview of 145 publications so far in newspapers and magazines, brochures, of books, book chapters, blog posts, and websites on the Square Metre Boat, also known as Skerrycruiser or Skärgårdskryssare. Further about the cruising versions S30, Jubilee S40, Swede 55, and other yachts described in the blog. In addition, articles and films about designers, remarkable …
Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Based on decades of sailing and boat maintenance, repair jobs and boat sales, I am helping prospective owners regarding boat selection all the way up to finally offering the boat. Having serviced my clients, I am occasionally asking to drop some notes regarding my job. Here is an extract of references from clients I have advised …
Reading Time: < 1 minute→ Artikel auf Deutsch Sign up for the free Swedesail newsletter, and I will occasionally make you aware of articles on interesting boats, sailing, yacht design, and construction covering Relevant information on what matters I will not bother with industry gossip and spare you of special offers, references to volume models, and so-called world premieres being out-of-date tomorrow. The articles …
