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: 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 …
Reading Time: 4 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch The modern cruising version of the Square Metre Boat of the seventies, also known as Cruising Skärgårdskryssare, is a clever merge of agility afloat, elegance, and comfort for a family or friends. The S30 and Swede 55 are long-lasting thanks to their robust GRP construction and easy to keep. When the good times of Swedish boat …
Reading Time: 3 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Since the early 20th century, the Square Metre Boat is admired for its beauty, speed, and joy to sail. Inspired by the elegance of the Skärgårdskryssare, it was time for a good-looking and well sailing one-design suiting better to the requirements of a family in the early seventies. So Swede 55 was conceived in 1974-75 by …
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: 6 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch An overlooked and notoriously underestimated topic is the weight of the boat. How heavy and thus under-rigged is it? Will it sail in light winds at all? And how much extra load, provisions, and luggage can it handle? Five examples. Cement mixer or sailboat? Today, cruising boats are considered as floating weekend flats. Whatever we appreciate …
Reading Time: 5 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch At the end of a busy week, it is nice to visit the weekly market with your loved one and a pretty raffia basket on Saturday. On the way, you have your first or second coffee and find out what the weekend will bring. This is something for the cold months in our latitudes. The other …
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: 2 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Are you still bobbing around or sailing already? Easygoing Square Metre Boats answer this question in their way. These beautiful light air windmills make something out of nearly nothing. About thirty boats, from classic 15 square metre boats to a modern cruising 55 are sailing the Slim & Tender Race (Schlank & Rank Regatta) off Fehmarn …
Reading Time: 4 minutes→ Artikel auf Deutsch Can you design, build and sail a 49-foot boat offering just stoop height below deck? Yes you can, if you are a Swede and more focused on sailing than amenities below deck. And what a pleasure it is edging this 55 m2 Skerry cruiser windward, sitting on the ergonomically shaped coaming with small deflections on the …
