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: 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: 8 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch The experience with Swede 55 inspired sailors, designers, and boat builders in Europe and the United States to develop the type in various directions. Here you find eight derivates triggered by the svelte Knud Reimers design. Boats thought-out, designed and built in Sweden, Tunisia, the eastern and western seaboard of the United States. Most of them …
Reading Time: 5 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch This registry assigns boats to construction and sail numbers, also to known or probable years of construction. Sail numbers were assigned consecutively international by the first builder, Fisksätra Varv. Identified sail numbers are marked bold in this overview. Some information is current, others is based on old sources and rumours. In case you know more, please …
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: 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: 4 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch I have been sailing since childhood in the sixties, beginning with dinghies like Optimist, Europe, 420, Pirat. Since the mid-seventies open keel boats such as Dyas and Cruising Square Metre Boats type Lotus, since 1980 Swede 55. At the end of the eighties, I specialized professionally in boating topics, in the early nineties focused on classic …
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 …
