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Yacht Designer Knud Hjelmberg Reimers

Reading Time: 9 minutesRhetorical skill, talent, and luck made the Dane, born in Aarhus in 1906, to Sweden’s mostly acknowledged yacht designer. A portrait of the unwavering representative of the elegant and sleek Scandinavian line. 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. Aboard Agneta in the Solent: In …

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Håkan Södergren’s most beautiful boat

Reading Time: 4 minutesCan you design, build and sail a 49-foot boat with stoop height below deck? Yes you can, if you are a Swede and focused on sailing. What a pleasure edging windward, this 55 sqm boat sitting on the ergonomically shaped coaming with small deflections on the tiller. The sensation of dinghy feeling aboard a 15 m racer. The nearly forgotten …