During 2001-2002 I lived on Ingmarsö in the arcipelago of Stockholm where I attended a boatbuildning school. Me and my mate Dan builded two boats. He got Ekan - Stjärnan, see further down, and I got Jaktkanoten - Yrla.
Yrla is a so called "hunting canoe" (Jaktkanot). It was used in the arcipelago of Blekinge in the beginning of 1900 for hunting seabirds. It took me and Dan aprox. 1200 hours to get the boat finished. The hull is made of pine, the keel of oak, the mast of spruce and the deck is made of teak and mahogny. The sails I sewed myself on Albatross sailloft. I made the mast a bit higher than the original.
Designers: Mårtensson brothers
Design year: 1977
Builders: Pontus Göransson & Dan Hasselblad
Lenght overall: 4.05 meters, 13,3ft
Length waterline: 3.43 meters, 11,3ft
Beam: 1.15 meters, 3,8ft
Draft: 0.26 meters, 0,85ft
Displacement: approx. 130 kilos, 287 lbs.
Sailarea: 5,5 sq.meters, 59,2 sq.ft.
Here are some pictures of the boat. Click on the thumbs to get a larger image.
Here you find the drawing which we used. They are in PDF-format.
Click on one of the images below to get a full size page(A4).
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NOW FOR SALE!!!
Including oars, sails, cover and a brand new Brenderup-trailer.
The boat is in excellent condition, a pure furniture.
Contact Pontus on +46-70-7505979 for a demonstration.
The boat is lying just south of Gothenburg.
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I have a Laser no 94334. The International Laser Class is huge and there are over 190 000 boats builded! Fun and fast to sail. Small boats are small problems... A new boat today is way too expensive compared to the quality of what you get.
Length overall: 4.23m
Length waterline: 3.81m
Beam: 1.37m
Weight: 56.7kg
Positive flotation: 158.7kg
Sail areas: 7.06m2 standard
Svenska Laserförbundet Swedish Laser Class Association!
International Laser Class Association
In the autumn of 2007 I found a very cheap Minette and couldent resist buying. Its a really small and simple handled yacht with a minimal cabin with two berths. Its light weight of just 600 kg makes the boat easy trailable after a small car. Myn has sailnumber 115 and was likely builded in 1975-1977.
Designer: Bruno Boström
Design year: 1970
Builder: Parca Marin
Lenght overall: 5,72, 18.8ft
Length waterline: 4,8 meters, 15,7ft
Beam: 2,18 meters, 7,15ft
Draft: 1,00 meters, 3,3ft
Displacement: 600 kilos 1320 lbs.
Ballast: 250 kg, 550 lbs.
Sailarea: 17 sq.meters, 183 sq.ft.
Spinnaker: 23 sq.meters, 248 sq.ft.
Lys: 0,91
Minettesidan - Magnus has made a site with lots of Minette-info.
Here are some pictures of the boat. Click on the thumbs to get a larger image.
For this season I have repainted the hull, totally restored the bottom and did sew new sails!
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Dehler 29
In the spring of 2010 I bought a Dehler 29 in Hyeres just east of Marseille in France. During 11 weeks I sailed the boat around Spain up to Sweden. Its was quite a tuff and long journey.. The D29 was first launched in 1998. Until 2009 some 250 boats have been builded. Due to economical problems the yard was overtaken by the Hanse-group in 2009 and is now under their roof. The D29 is still builded as a simpler and cheaper MkII-model. The yacht was (and is) delivered with three different kind of keel-options. The standard-keel have a draft of 1.58 cm, the racing-keel (which I have) have a draft of 1.80 cm. There is also a shallow-keel version whos draft is 1,22 cm.
Designer: Judel/ Vrolijk
Design year: 1998
Builder: Dehler Yachts
Lenght overall: 8.75meters, 28.71ft
Length waterline: 8.00 meters, 26,26ft
Beam: 2.95 meters, 9.68ft
Draft: 1.80 meters, 5,91ft
Displacement: 3000 kilos 6614 lbs.
Ballast: 1120 kg, 2469 lbs.
Sailarea: 49 sq.meters, 527 sq.ft.
Lys: 1.17
Here I have a documentary from the journey in 4 parts:
Click for documentary!
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Starboat
The Starboat was designed in 1911 by Francis Sweisguth. In 1932 it was chosen as an Olympic class and has been ever since except for 1976. The boat has very much sailarea compared to its light deplacement of 670 kg. Me and my friend Per owned the Lillia-Star Ciccolina no 6792 for a couple of years.
Designer: Francis Sweisguth
Length overall: 6,91 m
Beam: 1,73 m
Sail area: 26,5 m²
Displacement: 672 kg
Sveriges Starbåtsförbund
International Star Class Yacht Racing Association
The French yard Chantiers Beneteau is the builder of this 26 footer. Groupe Finot designed the yacht in 1994. When the first boat was launched in 1995 it was called First 260 Spirit. During 2004 the boat changed name to First 25.7 to fit into Beneteaus First-band. 25.7 has a sleek hull, a pivoting keel, twin rudders, a high aspect sail plan (9/10 rig) and inboard diesel-engine. The interior features a spacious saloon with 2 benchseat/berths convertible to double berths on either side of the large table. To port of the companionway there is a galley and to starboard you find the navigation table. There is a independent forward cabin with a separate WC. The woodwork is in pear tinted Mukali. Until today there are 500 260 Spirit built and some 100 First 25.7. With the pivoting keel and liftable rudders the 25.7s draft is reduced to 0.85 m. Perfect to enter small natural harbours in the arcipelago. With a deplacement of 2150 kg the yacht is quite heavy for its size. I owned First 25.7 no 34 during 2005 but due to some problems with the boat I returned to my Västbris.
Designer: Groupe Finot
Design year: 1994
Builder: Beneteau
Lenght overall: 7.70, 25.3ft
Hull length: 7.49, 24.6ft
Length waterline: 7.35 meters, 24.1ft
Beam: 2.76 meters, 9.1ft
Draft: 1.85 meters, 6.1ft
Displacement: 2150 kilos 4740 lbs.
Ballast: 650 kg, 1433 lbs.
Sailarea: 37.2 sq.meters, 400 sq.ft.
Spinnaker: 57.7 sq.meters, 621 sq.ft.
Engine: Inboard Nanni (Kubota) 14 kw
Fresh water capacity: 35 litres
Fuel capacity: 30 litres
Lys: 1.11
Here are some pictures of the boat. Click on the thumbs to get a larger image.
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Ekan
Ekan is a so called "Skärgårdseka". This was the boat we started with on the boatbuildningschool.
Dan and me also had help of Mattias while building this boat. It´s measures 4,30 x 1,45 meters.
Here are some pictures of the boat. Click on the thumbs to get a larger image.
Below is the 3-page building spec. we used, in PDF. (Old...)
Building spec., 3-page PDF-file
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| YACHTYARDS IN THE WORLD! |
| Link | Spec. |
| Naval Structures |
A french yard building the Minitransat Pogo 30, Pogo 10.50, Pogo 12.50 and Pogo 50. |
| Morris Yachts |
Fine semi-custom yachts for crusing, made in USA. |
| X-Yachts |
Famous Danish yard building performance cruisers and one-design. Good second-hand value. |
| Nautor´s SWAN |
Maybe the worlds finest production yachts, made in Finland. Sizes from 42 to 100 feet. Cruiser-racers. |
| Grand Soleil |
Italian yard that has been building cruiser/racers for 30 years. Their yachts range from 37 to 56 feet. |
| Luffe Yachts |
Danish yard building slim and fast sailing yachts. Ranges from 37 to 48 feet. |
| Najad |
Swedish cruising yachts with very high quality. Sizes from 35 to 57 feet. |
| Hallberg-Rassy |
Designed by German Frers the HR are famous worldwide for their high quality. Built on the island Orust in Sweden. 31-64 feet. |
| Baltic Yachts |
Together with Swan the BalticYachts are "Top of the line" among cruiser-racers in the world. Made in Finland. |
| Corby Yachts |
Neat, small, fast and good looking racers designed by John Corby. Check out the Corby 26 & 29! |
| Swallow Yachts |
Swallow Yachts produce a range of dayboats that combine classic looks with very modern performance. Based in UK. |
| Ridas Yacht |
Designed by Dieter Blank these yachts are sweet and small cruisers from 26 to 35 feet. |
| Shearwater yachts |
Pretty production yachts builded in South Africa. The 45 was choosen "Best Overall Cruising Boat of the Year, Best Traditional Voyager" by cruising World in 2000. |
| J-Boats |
Made in USA. Mainly very well performed sailers but expensive! |
| Dehler |
Made in Germany. Now under the roof of Hanse, the new boats has maybe lost some of the high quality which was the ensign of "older" Dehlers. |
| Peter Bruun Bådebyggeri |
The yard has builded many personal and cool yachts from 1968-1977, Marsvin, Spaekhugger, Grinde and Kaskelot. You can still buy a new Spaekhugger from the yard. |
| Sam L. Morse |
Builded two of, maybe the worlds finest, smaller blue water cruisers; the Bristol Channel Cutter 28 and the Falmouth Cutter 22. The yard is no longer active but there are lots of info. here. |
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| FAVORITE SAILING LINKS: |
| Link | Spec. |
| Sailinganarchy |
News, rumours or just fun stories, here you find it all! |
| Pocketcruiserguide |
Lots of info about pocket cruisers! |
| Animated knots |
A very illustrated site about knots. |
| Swedish sailing association SSF |
What is happening in the Swedish sailingworld? |
| Yachtworld |
Buying a "new" boat? Check out yachtworld! |
| Paradox |
Matt Layden´s boats. An American who build small pocket cruisers without keels. Instead he uses so called "shine-runners". |
| Sven Yrvind´s homepage |
My great favourite Sven Yrvind tells here about his boats and adventures. |
| Frances 26 |
Info. about the sweet Chuck Paine design Frances 26. |
| Classemini 650 |
The french classemini650 association. Lots of info. about Minis and the Minitransat. (A Mini is an Open50 in miniformat: Length 6.5m, beam 3m, displac. ca 1000 kg, sailarea 45-50m2, spinnaker 70-80m2! |
| Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut |
Weather for Scandinavia. |
| Volvo Ocean Race |
Volvos official site for the race! |
| Albatross Sails |
The leading sailsewery on the Westcoast. |
| Chesapeake Light Craft |
Based in USA - Maryland, CLC sells boat kits and plans for homebuilders. Some really nice designs. |
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