Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Swede 55 has four separate cabins. A front cabin with double V-berth and a bathroom ahead of the mast. The main cabin in the midship area with a pantry and nav station next to the companionway. Behind the centre cockpit, there is a well separated aft cabin. Accommodation in 3 cabins spread over 43 feet (ca. …
Reading Time: 4 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Besides its elegance and length Swede 55 comes with an introvert Scandinavian shape. The slightly curved spoon bow reminds on the Twenties, when the Square Metre Boat found its final shape for racing in the Skerries, as the archipelago of the Stockholm Skärgård is known. The fine entry separates the water effortless. A closer look underneath …
Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Inspired by Rolly Taskers offshore racing experience with the modified 40 sqm boat Siska in Australia, Fidelis’ success at the Sydney-Hobart race and the popular cruising Skärgårdskryssare S30, the Swede 55 project started in 1974. According to Reimers’ drawings dated March 1974, Swede 55 was first planned as an International One Design 40 m2 Class with …
Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch In 1908, the Square Metre Boat, also known as Skärgårdskryssare was invented for racing in the sheltered waters of the skerries around Stockholm. The original idea for this type of boat was straightforward and simple: Only the propulsion by the sail area was limited. Here you find a closer look at how sail area is measured …
Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Swede 55 half model For dining room, library or guest room. Size, colour, and finish of the carrier plate as you want it. Ideal gift for the Swede 55-aficionado. Here you see the classy version with bare hull and deck. Scale of displayed model 1:15, hull length 43 inch (1.09 m). Other scales and sizes are …
Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Variety of custom Swede 55 parts Sailing the last Fisksätra manufactured Swede 55 since 1980, I gained experience how to keep and repair the boat, how to improve and sensibly upgrade it. So I am offering Swede 55 parts and accessories like: Custom parts based on decades sailing Swede 55 You are welcome to order the …
Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch It is tempting to add nice to haves like a teak deck to a cruising boat, to equip it with a powered capstan, requiring an extra battery in the bow. However, be aware that added weight practically drowns the performance of a slender and sensitive boat like Swede 55. A teak deck, glued on the balsa …
Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch This is the story of a well-travelled, then long decommissioned Swede 55. Follow her wake from Fisksätra Varv in Västervik in Sweden to the island of Guernsey, where her first German owner sold her. She sailed on via southern France to Antigua, crossed the Atlantic several times in American and British ownership, went to Norway and …
Reading Time: 2 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch All data of Swede 55 obtained from brochures and own measurements aboard Gamle Swede: hull dimensions, weight, rig dimensions, nominal sail area and actual sail sizes. Cabin heights, tank capacities, engine and transmission, various international ratings/racing certificates. This information has been compiled from Gamle Swede and other Swede 55 over the past decades. This is just …
Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Sailing Swede 55 for decades, I developed ideas to refine the joy. In short, it would be mostly the same boat better: a new build with a higher ballast ratio, launched with the planned or even less displacement. This would bring Swede 55 back to its origins: as outlined in the article on Swede 55 Forerunners. …
