Cor Caroli (ship)

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Cor Caroli
Cor Caroli in the Naval Museum in Varna
Cor Caroli in the Naval Museum in Varna
Ship data
flag BulgariaBulgaria Bulgaria
Ship type yacht
Great Carter 30
home port Varna
Shipyard Poland
Launch 1975
Whereabouts Exhibit in the Varna Naval Museum
Ship dimensions and crew
length
9.07 m ( Lüa )
broad 3.08 m
Draft max. 1.52 m
displacement 3.32 t
 
crew 1
Machine system
machine Diesel engine
Machine
performance 		10 HP (7 kW)
propeller 1
Rigging and rigging
Rigging Sloop
Number of masts 1
Number of sails 3
Sail area 36 m²

The Cor Caroli is a Built in 1975 sailing yacht , with the Georgi Georgiev 1976/77 first Bulgarian a circumnavigation undertook. Since 1979 the boat has been exhibited as a museum ship in the Naval Museum in Varna .

Construction and technical data

At the request of the Varna Yacht Club , the slup-rigged "Carter 30" boat was manufactured under license in Poland in 1975 . The overall length is 9.07 meters and the width is 3.08 meters. The keelboat has a draft of 1.52 meters. The fuselage is made of fiberglass-reinforced plastic and has a displacement of 3.32 tons. The boat can set a sail area of ​​55 square meters with three sails ( mainsail , genoa and spinnaker ). It is also equipped with a diesel engine with an output of 10 hp .

story

The yacht was named Cor Caroli after the star of the same name Cor Caroli in the constellation Hounds . The home port of the boat was Varna. In 1976 the captain and sailor Georgi Georgiev was the first Bulgarian to take part in the "Ostar 76" regatta. The Single-Handed Transatlantic Race was launched in 1960 as a transatlantic regatta for single-handed sailors , takes place every four years and leads from Plymouth in England to the east coast of the USA (mostly Newport , more rarely New York or Boston ).

Following this regatta, he sailed from Newport to Havana , where he started his one-handed circumnavigation on December 20, 1976. It led through the Panama Canal , across the Marquesas in the Pacific Ocean , Fiji and Suva to the Australian port of Darwin . From there he steered to Cape Town , crossed the South Atlantic and reached Havana again on December 20, 1977. He was the first Bulgarian to sail around the world and wrote Bulgarian shipping history. The trip took him 201 days, 21 hours and 36 minutes, which was also a record for this size of boat.

In 1979 the Cor Caroli was handed over to the Naval Museum in Varna.

Trivia

In 1978 the Bulgarian Post issued a postage stamp with the yacht as a motif; their value was 23 stotinki . In 1992, to promote sailing and to commemorate the first circumnavigation of the world, the international Cor Caroli regatta was launched in Varna, which is held annually in the Black Sea.

literature

  • Florian and Stefan Lipsky: The treasure trove of seafaring - shipping museums, museum ships, traditional ships and projects , Kohlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-7822-0849-8 .

Web links

Commons : Cor Caroli  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lipsky, p. 15
  2. ↑ a b Cor Caroli on the website of the Naval Museum Varna
  3. ↑ Illustration and data on the postage stamp at stampdata.com
  4. ↑ Cor Caroli International Regatta 2021 at visit.varna.bg
  5. ^ Yachts set sail for Cor Caroli Regatta in Black Sea on Radio Bulgaria

Coordinates: 43 ° 12 ′ 2 ″  N , 27 ° 55 ′ 18 ″  E