Reading Time: 9 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch At the end of the sixties, Swedish Square Metre Boat sailors are thinking about a yacht being easier to keep and a bit more comfortable. They like the elegant wooden Skärgårdskryssare and its delightful pleasure under sail. But the upkee of the aged wooden boats needs a lot of care, work and time. And many sailors …
Reading Time: 4 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch The modern cruising version of the Square Metre Boat of the seventies, also known as Cruising Skärgårdskryssare, is a clever merge of agility afloat, elegance, and comfort for a family or friends. Thanks to their robust GRP construction the S30 and Swede 55 are long-lasting and easy to keep boats. When the Gylling Group withdrew from …
Reading Time: 6 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch This page documents the fleet of the first version as built 1972-78 and the second version (manufactured 1978 — end 79) by Fisksätra Varv in Västervik/Sweden, further the few boats with wooden superstructure completed by other boat builders. The sail numbers were assigned consecutively international. Apparently, they correspond to the construction numbers. Identified construction/sail numbers are …
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 …
