Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch The privilege of being aboard is experiencing so many moods. It starts with early departures to hoist sails. It continues with gently heeled upwind sailing. And it goes on with exciting downwind runs. Then there are intense races with daring manoeuvres on the chessboard between the buoys. In the evening there are peaceful hours anchoring as …
Reading Time: 8 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch There are so many topics when it comes to equipping a boat that the storm jib is often overlooked. Selection and purchase are not taken serious. Surprisingly, the standard literature provides nothing here. Even the 32nd edition of the German Seamanship, the Handbook for Yachting from 2019 only mentions this important sail. Adlard Coles’ reference book …
Reading Time: 6 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Skerry cruisers and their modern cruising versions, such as the S30, Jubilee S40 and Swede 55, are sensitive boats. Despite their light displacement, low freeboard and elegant lines, they handle a lot of wind. They are sailed in a different manner compared to contemporary wide and significantly heavier boats. When the wind picks up, you are …
Reading Time: 4 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch When the popular S30, a family-friendly cruising version of the classic 30 m2 skerry cruiser, was launched in the early 1970s, the idea was to create an easy-care and affordable boat. In other words, a contemporary utility item made of Gelcoat covered glass fibre with very little wood on deck. Just the tiller, the cockpit benches …
Reading Time: 8 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch About the false start, the fuck-up version, the start on the wrong side, or carefully approaching the starting line. And about hopelessly trailing the fleet in the Olympic loser spirit. Five starting variations that can be combined endlessly. Starting is as incomprehensible as golf. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. The difference between sailing and …
Reading Time: 4 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch The square metre boat, as invented in 1908, was built in various classes from 15 to 150 m2. Admired for its elegance and agility, it was soon appreciated outside Sweden as well. Due to his international contacts, Knud Reimers developed a 22 sqm class boat for a client in Chicago in 1953. Udell 22, a short …
Reading Time: 7 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Due to common sense any very long and slender boat is a skerry cruiser. In fact, it is a boat type built according the Skerry Cruiser Rule being agreed upon in Stockholm in 1908. This rule was revised in 1916, 1920, and finally in 1925. In this version it is in effect until today. A closer …
Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Every cruising sailing boat today comes with a folding Sprayhood. Many yachts even have a solid windscreen or a permanent deckhouse. So you sit in the cockpit protected from the wind and water. This is comfy for sailing on chilly nights, in spring and autumn, and in the cold waters of the north. Unfortunately, this practical …
Reading Time: 5 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Swede 55 was built as a fibreglass production boat by Fisksätra Varv in Västervik, at the east coast of Sweden. As being customary in the 1970s, Swede 55 turned out remarkably robust with a solid laminated hull, carefully sized wall thicknesses and well-thought-out reinforcements. Due to anticipated speed and twisting in rough seas, the slender hull …
Reading Time: 11 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch This article has been updated with detailed information on the engine, operating hours, further technical specs, age of sails, recent improvements and equipment. Please note tables. As a glance into our clubs, marinas, and ports shows, today’s mass-produced plastic boats are easy to maintain. And due to the endlessly adhered-to more-principle, they are getting higher all …
