Reading Time: 4 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Since 1908 the Skerry Cruiser has been launched in various classes from 15 to 150 m2 of measured sail area. Soon he was appreciated for the sailing fun and his elegance beyond Sweden. The 40 sqm class in particular was eagerly sailed in Germany in the 1920s, the 30 sqm class in England and on the …
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: 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: 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-Meter Boat with …
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: 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 …
Reading Time: 9 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch A crush on this originally Swedish, temporarily Finnish and recently Swiss example of the 75 m2 Skerry Cruiser of 1918. How Gun keeps eight caregiving sailors happy (and busy) while thrilling spectators on Lake Constance. And finally, the question of who will continue this fabulous story. Let’s start with an almost forgotten detail, this arched coach …
Reading Time: 6 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch For decades, the largest contiguous fleet of 40 Square Metre Boats has been sailing on Lake Starnberg. An afternoon aboard Aphrodite, launched in 2005 to a Gustaf Estlander design of 1923 by Munich boat builder Helmut Fischer, explains why. Bavarian singer-songwriter and cabaret artist Georg Ringsgwandl once named ‘watching television, drinking, and playing golf’ as the …
Reading Time: 7 minutes→ Article in German This 13-metre racer is an important boat for the Skerry Cruiser scene in Northern Germany. With Aurora, Georg Milz brought his idea for a sailing event from the 2008 centenary of the Square Metre Class from Stockholm to Fehmarn. She gifted fans of true and classic Skerry Cruisers and their successors, the fabulous Schlank & Rank …
Reading Time: 5 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Advantages and disadvantages of the long and slender Square Metre Boat, the development of the so-called Skerry Cruiser, and how beam is measured since 1925. A brief look at the compromise between minimal water resistance in light wind and the ability to carry sail in a fresh breeze. Rapid Skerry Cruiser development in the 1910s The …
