Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Due to the elegant low profile of the hull, limited freeboard is an issue aboard beautiful boats. The price is that you can hardly stand upright in the cabin. So sailors of classy Skerry Cruisers or Skärgårdskryssare know this price well. You only change clothes when the sliding hatch is open. Or you have a boat …
Reading Time: 6 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch An overlooked and notoriously underestimated topic is the weight of the boat. How heavy and thus under-rigged is it? Will it sail in light winds at all? And how much extra load, provisions, and luggage can it handle? Five examples. Cement mixer or sailboat? Today, cruising boats are considered as floating weekend flats. Whatever we appreciate …
Reading Time: 6 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch As the drawing reveals, this 79-footer had an owner’s cabin with an en suite bathroom, a saloon, and even a small kitchen next to the mast. Floorboards placed deep midships, the Skerry cruiser provided full headroom. The largest Skärgårdskryssare ever built was almost 11 feet wide. Of its 79 feet (24 metres), that third shown above …
Reading Time: 9 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Skärgårdskryssare also known as Square Metre Boats, are these slim and elegant boats to enjoy sensational sailing. Sadly, the time aboard ends in the evening, as a classy skerry cruiser offers little comfort. That’s why there is a compromise, the so-called Cruising Square Metre Boat. A remarkable variant is the Jubilee S40. How the Jubilee S40 …
Reading Time: 5 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch At the end of a busy week, it is nice to visit the weekly market with your loved one and a pretty raffia basket on Saturday. On the way, you have your first or second coffee and find out what the weekend will bring. This is something for the cold months in our latitudes. The other …
Reading Time: 8 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Finally located in a former match factory in Västervik on the Swedish east coast from 1968 to 1979 and in Gränna near Lake Vättern, Fisksätra built motorboats and vessels for customs, the navy and nautical survey. Then, from the sixties onwards, sailboats, cosy double-enders and popular cabin cruisers. In the seventies, the S30 and Swede 55 …
Reading Time: 4 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Buying a boat is a risky step. Dreams, emotions, the desire to do something really different are big, fuelled by a kind of midlife crisis and some money. Some even do it without a midlife crisis and little money. So let’s look at the knockout criteria when buying a boat. A boat is perceived as promise …
Reading Time: 2 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Are you still bobbing around or sailing already? Easygoing Square Metre Boats answer this question in their way. These beautiful light air windmills make something out of nearly nothing. About thirty boats, from classic 15 square metre boats to a modern cruising 55 are sailing the Slim & Tender Race (Schlank & Rank Regatta) off Fehmarn …
Reading Time: 4 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Can you design, build and sail a 49-foot boat offering just stoop height below deck? Yes you can, if you are a Swede and more focused on sailing than amenities below deck. And what a pleasure it is edging this 55 m2 Skerry cruiser windward, sitting on the ergonomically shaped coaming with small deflections on the …
Reading Time: 6 minutes→ Article in German Chestnut brown mahogany, copper coloured underwater body, modern inclined transom. Advanced keel fin and an effective rudder blade. All topped by a serious spar. This boat has been in its first version the nightmare of Square Metre Boat sailors at Lake Constance in the eighties. Contra as a modern 30 sqm Skärgårdskryssare At that time, Dr. …
