Reading Time: 6 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch How this Knud Reimers design from 1943 became a template for his Skerry cruisers and other boats, like his Cruising Square Metre Boats. During the Second World War, Knud Reimers designed a new 30 m2 skerry cruiser for the Hudiksvall merchant E. Ståhlquist. As far as can be ascertained from Per Thelander’s excellent chronicle Alla våra …
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe double-ended boat is a peculiarity of Anglo-Saxon yacht design and rarely seen on Square Metre Boats and Metre Class Yachts. Nevertheless, Uffa Fox and Francis Lewis Herreshoff designed a few Skerry Cruisers as double-enders in the thirties. The 8 metre-class yacht Angelita, which won the gold medal in the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1932, was a double-ender as …
Reading Time: 12 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Since 1934, these mahogany planks have been a force to be reckoned with. For the past three decades, a Bavarian has maintained and sailed the boat of the fearless offshore sailor Herbert George ‘Blondie’ Hasler. Although the trained combat diver only had one good season on it, it left a lasting impression. Classy 30 Square Metre …
Reading Time: 9 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch A memory of the Dragon sailor and boat builder Børge Børresen, who developed and built the wonderful three-man keelboat in his yard in Vejle, where the popular BB10 was created and the Soling Olympic class was built. Brønsodde on the northern shore of Vejle Fjord in Jutland. Almost 9 metres of elegantly joined Honduras mahogany are …
Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch This 68 footer was developed by Håkan Södergren in 2008 as a taller sister of Swede 55. At first sight it is the same boat just bigger due the sailor saying. Actually, Swede 68 is 15 feet (4.57 metres) longer, nearly three feet (80 cm) wider and designed with a raised freeboard. This would offer more …
Reading Time: 4 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Due to the turbulent development of the Square Metre Class during its first decades, the design, and boat building regulations became repeatedly more precise. In 1925, the Skerry Cruiser Rule was fundamentally revised. So the Skerry Cruiser Rule, as we know it today, is a hundred years old now in its final fourth version. The Square …
Reading Time: 6 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch About the 6-metre Yacht ‘Hamburg’, her famous first owner, and sailing a fabulous metre class at all. And about sailing as a performing art, whose fleeting pleasure is permanently captured at the right moment. Have you ever heard of Erich Ferdinand Laeisz? He was a professional and private tall ship sailor. His Hamburg shipping company provided …
Reading Time: 4 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch The story of this Swede 55 successor reveals, what can be done with a tiller-steered 52-footer, racing the south and west coasts of England, including the Fastnet Race or on the Côte d’Azur. Universal Hartbeat is steered like a dinghy with a tiller extension instead of a wheel. Almost all the crew is sitting on the …
Reading Time: 10 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Cleverness, rhetorical skills, talent, and luck made the Dane, born in Aarhus in 1906, to Sweden’s mostly known naval architect. A portrait of the unwavering representative of the elegant and sleek Scandinavian yacht design. The following four anecdotes describe the self-made man who came from modest circumstances, the passionate sailor, the sales-minded and also self-confident Dane. …
Reading Time: 5 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch What is a Skerrycruiser or Skärgårdskryssare? Anything flat-hulled with long overhangs, made of wood, ideally with a glossy finish? This is how most sailors answer this question. In principle, that’s true, since the open design class launched in 1908 for racing in the Stockholm archipelago or Skärgård initially left a lot of freedom. Only the sail …
