Folk boat
| Notation | |
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| Boat dimensions | |
| Length above : | 7.68 m |
| Length WL : | 6.00 m |
| Width above sea level : | 2.20 m |
| Freeboard : | 0.568 m |
| Draft : | 1.20 m |
| Mast height : | 11.0 m |
| Weight (ready to sail): | 1,930 kg |
| Weight (ballast, keel): | 1,000-1,050 kg |
| Sail area | |
| Sail area close to the wind : | 24 m² |
| Mainsail : | 17 m² |
| Jib : | 7 m² |
| Others | |
| Rigging type: | Sloop |
| Yardstick number : | 114 |
The Nordic Folkboat is a small, simple but seaworthy sailing boat , specially designed for the Baltic Sea . It offers space for a crew of two to four people and is suitable for cruising as well as for sporty regattas .
In Sweden, the folk boat is also sailed with a spinnaker , but this has a negative impact on the service life and rigidity of the wooden masts. That's why a gennaker is often used here .
Construction
The folk boat is a long keeler with a Bermuda rig . It has the S-frame shape typical of wooden yachts and a flat stern with attached rudder.
The classic folk boat hull is made of wood and clinker . Originally, only native woods were used in Scandinavia, but now mahogany , which is typical in boat building, is also used. Since 1976 hulls have also been made of GRP , but the clinker planking typical of the class is also shown on these boats.
According to the class regulations, a glued wooden mast belongs to the Folkeboot; aluminum masts have only been permitted since 2001.
history
The folk boat was based on entries from a competition organized by the Royal Sailing Society in Gothenburg in 1939, the aim of which was to develop an inexpensive boat suitable for the Baltic Sea as a unit class for all of Scandinavia. The new boat should offer space for three to four people and be as inexpensive to build as possible in order to be able to make it accessible to a wide range of owners.
None of the suggestions were convincing. The Scandinavian Sailing Association therefore decided to mix up the best proposals. Prof. Ljungberg, Baron Wedell-Wedellsborg and Ing. Stenbäck were commissioned to develop the plans for the required people's boat. The final design could not be associated with the name of a particular designer, so that the legal ownership of the Nordic People's Boat would remain with the Skandinavisk Seijlforbund. This was the only way to freely dispose of the building licenses, to pass the plans on to interested parties at low cost and to modify the boat class if necessary. The construction drawings were made by Tord Sunden according to the specifications of the tripartite commission. Sunden was then an amateur yacht designer and technical draftsman at the Ericson shipyard. Here he was primarily concerned with the construction of propellers.
For the newly created Nordiska Folkebåten, the Plattgat trumpet of the 2nd prize winner was taken over and proportionally extended. The shape and the angle of the stern were largely retained. The sturdy stem was given more overhang in accordance with the crack of the 3rd prize winner and was designed to be more pleasing. The clinker construction of the hull was also determined by the Scandinavian Sailing Association in order to obtain a boat that could be built as cheaply as possible.
The boat initially broke and a. with the high freeboard for the time and the high coaming that compensated for the deck jump, completely with the taste of the time, which was shaped by luxurious racing yachts. The flat stern with attached rudder was also a clear visual contrast to the elegantly overhanging classic yacht stern.
The excellent sailing characteristics of the Folkboat and the safety in the deep cockpit, even in a considerable position, were just as convincing as the price of around 3,500 kroner. The first large series of 60 built boats was already sold out due to pre-orders.
While the hull and cabin were originally built almost exclusively from local woods, mahogany and teak gained in importance over time - especially as materials for superstructures and extensions. Folk boats have also been made of plastic since 1976; the first GRP hulls were made by the Danish company LM Glasfiber . Erik Andreasen from Kerteminde in Denmark became the main sponsor of these plastic folk boats . His fast folk boat Tibbe convinced the critics (Andreasen bought Tibbe from Thorkild Lind, won the “Gold Cup” twice and made a name for himself with it before he put the idea of GFK folk into practice). LM Glasfiber delivered 850 folk boat hulls until 1996 and then stopped production in favor of wind turbines. In 1997 Erik Andreasen founded his own production company Folkeboat Baltic Ltd. in Estonia . for GRP folk boats. In 2004 he was able to deliver the thousandth GRP folk boat. In the case of plastic folk boats, the weight and weight distribution as well as the shape of the wooden boats must be observed. Plastic and wooden boats still sail directly against each other in regattas without compensation.
Folk boats are now being built in Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Great Britain and the USA. After the hitherto leading manufacturer, Folkebåd Centralen in Kerteminde, with hull production in Pärnu, Estonia, said goodbye to the sailing boat business, this division was taken over by a German investor and the company moved to Hamburg.
variants
The folk boat served as a template for various replicas and modifications that should make the boat more elegant or more comfortable. In some replicas, the clinker paneling was replaced by a Karweel association, for example in the replica of the Potsdamer Buchholzwerft, which was shown for the first time in West Germany in 1964 and came up with a "competitive price" of 19,400 DM.
They were built for the Hanseatic Yacht School as training boats with a smaller cabin and a particularly large cockpit.
The international folk boat , also presented by Sundén in 1966 , a more comfortable and revised version of the folk boat, which differs from its model primarily through its smooth outer skin, can be regarded as a further development of the folk boat . The use of the name International Folkboat was forbidden by a court of Sundén, as the boat was only registered as a national class in Sweden, and later also in Denmark. The reference in the name to an international class is misleading and not permitted. The boat class is therefore now simply called IF-Boot .
Since 1994, folk boats have been built in Denmark that do not have a cabin. Only GRP is used as the material for the hull. These open folk boats or F-boats are mostly used for training purposes due to the good sailing properties of the folk boat. Her hull corresponds to the original shape, the clinker planking typical of Folkeboats was also shown here in the GRP hull.
Class association
Class associations for folk boats exist in all Scandinavian countries, Great Britain, the Netherlands, the United States, Canada and Germany. Regattas are held regularly. Folk boat regattas are part of important regatta events such as the San Francisco International Cup , the Sessan Cup , the Kiel Week or the Travemünde Week . The most important regatta in the folk boat class is the unofficial world championship, the gold cup , which is held alternately in Danish, Swedish and German waters. From August 14 to 18, 2018, the first international German / Danish championship was held on the Flensburg Fjord . The multiple Danish gold cup winner Søren Kæstel with the folk boat DEN 873, Cirkeline , (Hellerup Sejlklub) became the international German champion and Danish champion. The largest coherent fleet of folk boats in the world is based in Berlin.
The sail sign of boats Folkeboot class is a F .
Cruising sailing
The folk boat sailors use their sailing boat intensively as a cruise ship despite the narrow cabin. The Briton Leo Goolden even crossed the Atlantic in 2015 on a Swedish folk boat from the 1940s.
The Austrian Johann Trauner was the first Austrian to sail around the world with his folk boat "Lei Lei Lassen" from 1966–1968.
See also
Web links
- International Folk Boat Association
- German Champion in Nordic Folk Boat (since 1973)
- German class association
- Folkboat Central, manufacturer / shipyard
- Brandt-Moeller's Boatyard, manufacturer / shipyard
- Classic Sailboats: Nordic Folkboat , English
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g International Class Rules of the Nordic Folkboat International Association, accessed on January 7, 2018
- ↑ Dietrich Kralemann: Yardstick numbers 2019 (PDF; 984 KB) German Sailing Association , December 10, 2018, accessed on September 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Klaus Kramer: The history of the Nordic folk boat - Part 1: The history of the Nordic unit class . At folkeboot.de, accessed on Apr. 18, 2009
- ↑ Fleet - Folk Boats . From dhh.de, accessed on Feb. 17, 2015
- ↑ folkeboot.de: German Masters in Folkeboot (1973-2016) , accessed on June 26, 2017
- ↑ Kieler-Woche.de: Kieler Woche winner in the Folkeboot class (1987-2016) , accessed on June 26, 2017
- ↑ Welcome to Flensburg-Fahrensodde for the Folkeboot-IDDM 2018, accessed on August 21, 2018
- ↑ Yachting World (October 2, 2015): 'Did you sail that thing here?' - solo across the Atlantic in a Folkboat , accessed January 15, 2017
- ^ Yachting , Yachting Publishing Corporation, 1967. Vol. 121, p. 175; via Google Books