Reading Time: 2 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Skerry cruisers are slim, long, light, and correspondingly sensitive boats, picking up speed even in light winds. This is why they have always been popular in sheltered waters such as the Swedish archipelago, especially in eastern Sweden, and in light wind areas such as the lakes of southern Germany and Switzerland. Even the slightest breeze that …
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: 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: 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: 11 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Cleverness, rhetorical skills, talent, and luck made the Dane, born in Aarhus in 1906, to Sweden’s mostly known naval architect. A portrait of the unwavering representative of the elegant and sleek Scandinavian yacht design. The following four anecdotes describe the self-made man who came from modest circumstances, the passionate sailor, the sales-minded and also self-confident Dane. …
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: 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: 5 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Inspired by Rolly Taskers offshore racing experience with the modified 40 Square Metre Boat Siska in Australia, followed by Fidelis’ success at the Sydney-Hobart race and the popular cruising Skärgårdskryssare S30, the Swede 55 project was started in 1974. According to Reimers’ drawings dated March 1974, the first step towards Swede 55 was an International One …
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 …
