Reading Time: 4 minutesCan you design, build and sail a 49-foot boat with stoop height below deck? Yes you can, if you are a Swede and focused on sailing. What a pleasure edging windward, this 55 sqm boat sitting on the ergonomically shaped coaming with small deflections on the tiller. The sensation of dinghy feeling aboard a 15 m racer. The nearly forgotten …
Reading Time: 6 minutesChestnut brown mahogany, copper coloured underwater body, inclined modern transom. Stretched keel and an effective rudder blade. A serious spar on top. This boat has been the nightmare of Square Metre Boat sailors at Lake Constance in the eighties in the first version. Contra as a modern 30 sqm Skärgårdskryssare At that time, Dr. Klaus Müller from Überlingen, had successful …
Reading Time: 7 minutesThis almost 59 ft (ca. 18 m) long Daysailer is so outdated that at first glance it appears to be a coloured black-and-white photo of times gone by. However, the boat is real and not restored. It is a new construction of 2017. The sail geometry is also pretty outdated. Three quarters of Gustaf’s sail area is in the mainsail, …
Reading Time: 5 minutesSwede 55 can be enjoyed as built in the 1970s. Believe it or not and even if some do-it-yourselfers find it difficult: you can simply sail this boat as it is – with one exception: Unfortunately, the yard did not consider an important issue at the time, anchoring. A secure anchor that you can easily deploy and back on board …
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn S30 sailor wants a jockey pole for his cruising Square Metre Boat for spinnaker sailing at closer angles. Together with matching eye plates to hang on the side of the mast, this is no big deal. Boom and fittings are inquired from the leading mast builder Seldén via the Hamburg agent Herman Gotthardt. Seldén probably supplied the rigging for …
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn spring 1930, the 22-Square-Metre Skerry Cruiser or Skärgårdskryssare Vigilant was sitting almost ready on a ramp on the Medina River of the Isle Of Wight in the south of England. Apart from the lead keel, the rudder, and the rigging, the boat was finished. It was designed by the famous sailor and yard owner Uffa Fox (pictured right). It …
Reading Time: 2 minutesSwede 55 has two smaller sisters, the Jubilee S40 and S30 cruising variants of the classy Square Metre Boat. Here is an opportunity to buy a well-kept and extensively equipped S30. It comes with a comprehensive wardrobe with several light wind sails for Lake Constance. Dark blue hull with teak deck. Extensive refit by reputable Lake Constance yard in 2003: …
Reading Time: 4 minutesUntil this proudly remembered Friday, end of May 2019, it is clear aboard Gamle Swede that we will meet a Twelve-metre class only at the start of the race. Then this 22 metre upwind sailing machine, powered by 240 square metres, is gone. No sailor will take that pack with dull presumption, so we prepare with due realism in Neustadt …
