Reading Time: 6 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch The Square Metre Boat cruising variant Swede 55 is delighting sailors all around the globe. Although series production ended in 1979, with Gamle Swede as hull number 27 launched by Fisksätra Varv, 18 more boats followed. One of them, technically and in terms of sailing the most interesting, is Cheyenne. Göran Lindgren got his dream boat …
Reading Time: 2 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch The cruising versions of the Square Metre Boat such as the Knud Reimers designed S30 and Swede 55 from the seventies have successors. Here you see some Videos of Swede 41 Classic named Sleipnir launched 2018 and the Swede 55 successor named Cheyenne launched 2002. Swede 41 Classic Sleipnir The helmsman with the hat is Stockholm …
Reading Time: 5 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch In the 1970s, admirers of the beautiful Johan Anker keelboat Dragon, the classy 30 Square Metre Boat, the Swiss Lacustre or the Folkboat had a problem. A wooden boat needs a lot of attention, time, and skilled craftsmanship. And it is expensive to build new. That’s why they have been built in plastic ever since. At …
Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Based on decades of sailing and boat maintenance, repair jobs and boat sales, I am helping prospective owners regarding boat selection all the way up to finally offering the boat. Having serviced my clients, I am occasionally asking to drop some notes regarding my job. Here is an extract of references from clients I have advised …
Reading Time: < 1 minute→ Artikel auf Deutsch Sign up for the free Swedesail newsletter, and I will occasionally make you aware of articles on interesting boats, sailing, yacht design, and construction covering Relevant information on what matters I will not bother with industry gossip and spare you of special offers, references to volume models, and so-called world premieres being out-of-date tomorrow. The articles …
Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Due 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 …
Reading Time: 6 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch As the drawing reveals, this 79-footer had an owner’s cabin with an en suite bathroom, a saloon, and even a small kitchen next to the mast. Floorboards placed deep midships, the Skerry cruiser provided full headroom. The largest Skärgårdskryssare ever built was almost 11 feet wide. Of its 79 feet (24 metres), that third shown above …
Reading Time: 8 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Finally located in a former match factory in Västervik on the Swedish east coast from 1968 to 1979 and in Gränna near Lake Vättern, Fisksätra built motorboats and vessels for customs, the navy and nautical survey. Then, from the sixties onwards, sailboats, cosy double-enders and popular cabin cruisers. In the seventies, the S30 and Swede 55 …
Reading Time: 4 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Buying a boat is a risky step. Dreams, emotions, the desire to do something really different are big, fuelled by a kind of midlife crisis and some money. Some even do it without a midlife crisis and little money. So let’s look at the knockout criteria when buying a boat. A boat is perceived as promise …
Reading Time: 5 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Headsail furling has obvious advantages. For cruising, where comfort is paramount, the cloth is removed from the cockpit when wind picks up, before mooring, or in case of an emergency. Further, this winding technique, which is in use now for decades, conveniently adjusts the sail area. This is interesting for charterers, all new to the sport, …
