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 plastic with little wood on deck. Just the tiller, the cockpit benches and the teak grating …
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: 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: 10 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch 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: 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: 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: 8 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch This website focused on beautiful yachts has been around for a while. Occasionally, I am asked what kind of boat I am sailing. Now I am taking the liberty to introduce Gamle Swede: Daysailer, cruiser, occasional racer, floating retreat and boat office. Some day, she may be for sale – in case an experienced and care …
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 …
