Reading Time: 10 minutes→ Article in German 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 around, wider at the rear, and fuller at the bow to offer even more comfort. Probably 5,000 of them are berthed just around Lübeck Bay. The …
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: 4 minutesA unique fleet of nine pretty special light wind racers, inspired by the classic 40 m2 Square Metre Boat also known as Skerrycruiser or Skärgårdskryssare, is now sailing on Lake Balaton. Insights into this class, which is only known in Hungary. With the collapse of communism in Hungary in 1989, the economy of scarcity also ended on the water. After …
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe 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 a kind of 52 …
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith its mix of traditional looks and modern sailing technology, the 220 ft (ca. 67 m) Ketch Hetairos is the most interesting yacht of our time. An overlooked detail is the open counter, in the style of the early 20th. Century racing cutters. Hetairos following Thames Tonnage Measurement The shape of the English pilot cutter has been back in the …
Reading Time: 3 minutesDue 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 with a cabin structure …
