Germania IV
| Germania IV | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Technical data (overview) | ||||
| Rigging : | Sloop | |||
| Sail class: | 8mR | |||
| Sail number: | 8 G12 | |||
| Constructor: | Henry Rasmussen | |||
| Construction year: | 1939 | |||
| Shipyard: | Abeking & Rasmussen | |||
| Shipyard location: | Lemwerder | |||
| Build number: | 3340 | |||
| Building-costs: | 24,000 RM without sails | |||
| Length over all (Lüa): | 14.89 m | |||
| Waterline length : | 9.40 m | |||
| Width over all (Büa): | 2.30 m | |||
| Draft : | 1.99 m | |||
| Displacement : | 9 tons | |||
| Ballast: | 5.75 t | |||
| Mast height: | 17 m | |||
| Sail area: | 77 m² | |||
| Mainsail : | 60 m² | |||
| Jib / Genoa I : | 28 m² / 46 m² | |||
| Spinnaker : | 100 and 120 m² | |||
| Flag: | Germany | |||
| Use: | Regatta yacht | |||
| Team strength (crew): | 6 persons | |||
The Germania IV is an 8mR regatta yacht (figure eight) in the meter class , which the Essen industrialist Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach had built in 1939 at the renowned Abeking & Rasmussen shipyard in Lemwerder .
History of Germania IV
With this yacht he wanted to build on the regatta successes that he had achieved with the Germania III at the 1936 Summer Olympics off Kiel . He narrowly missed the silver medal (tied). At the next Olympic Games in 1940 off Helsinki, he wanted to fight for the gold medal with his team. They had come up with some technical innovations. The yacht was equipped with wire rungs and particularly large winches , which were operated by handwheels mounted below deck as well as the backstays .
Wartime
At Kieler Woche 1939 the Germania IV (G12) ( helmsman Walter von Hütschler ) was completed and only met the two opponents Germania III (G9) (helmsman Felix Scheder-Bieschin and the sister ship of the new Germania, the Windsbraut III (G11) of the Berlin private banker Fritz Sponholz. Each yacht won a race. Then it was to go to Sandhamn / Sweden and Helsinki to familiarize themselves with the future Olympic sailing area for 1940. During the journey, the Second World War began . The team managed the return journey and the Germania IV was stored in a boat shed near Potsdam . Because of the war, the Olympic Games in Helsinki did not take place until 1952, but without the participation of the 8mR yachts. Krupp had already sold Germania II in 1936 to Hans Howaldt , who had it in Inga VIII renamed and relocated to Berlin after conversion to a touring boat.The yacht burned in a boat shed in Potsdam towards the end of the war, probably by B edge foundation . The Germania IV was sold to a Berlin sailor during the war and was in the lock port of Brunsbüttel in 1945 . Henry Rasmussen , who was held here, provided the British crew officers who wanted to sail the Germania IV with the reserve mast of the yacht from Lemwerder and so came back to his shipyard.
post war period
When the English released the yacht in an almost rotted condition in 1948, the Flensburg sailor and boat builder Jacob Staats bought the Germania IV , restored it from scratch and sailed it as Gunna IV with a white hull as a touring boat, primarily on the Flensburg Fjord . He sold it to a doctor from Lüneburg who renamed the yacht Rasmus IV . He passed the yacht on to Cecil Lefen, the commodore of the Belgian Yacht Club. His widow sold the ship to the metalworker Pierre Hauwaerts in 1969. After a mast break, he rebuilt the yacht according to his needs. He shortened the hull by 80 cm, installed an 18 hp Yamaha diesel and converted the yacht into a significantly heavier, top-rigged cruising ship. With the ship, renamed Baltic , Hauwaerts undertook extensive trips to the North Sea and North Atlantic . A trip takes him to the Gulf of Bothnia .
In 1998 Rolf Rathcke and his son Philipp Rathcke acquired the yacht in Zeebrugge von Hauwaerts in order to restore it and, if possible, to bring it back to its original condition from 1939. The restoration lasted until the summer of 2007, as they did not want to seek outside help from a shipyard. Since Philipp Rathcke carried out most of the restoration, he received the "Blue Ribbon" from Prime Minister Carstensen during the Kiel Week 2007, which is an award for special achievements in the maritime sector.
Yachts with the name Germania
- Germania , 1908, Germania shipyard
- Germania II , 1934, A&R , 8mR yacht hull number 2856
- Germania III , 1935, A&R, 8mR yacht hull number 2974
- Germania IV , 1939, A&R, 8mR yacht hull number 3340
- Germania V , 1955, A&R, 13 KR-Yacht hull number 5025
- Germania VI , 1963, A&R, 16 KR-Yacht hull number 5895
literature
- Svante Domizlaff, Alexander Rost: Germania - The yachts of the house of Krupp . Delius-Klasing Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7688-1840-7
- Hella Peperkorn: Germania IV - The sailing legend awakes from a long slumber . In: Klassiker Heft 1, 2007, pp. 10–16.
- Erdmann Braschos: Verborgenes Juwel, In: yacht classic Heft 1, 2007, pp. 74–83
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Yacht classic, issue 1 (2007), p. 74 ff
- ↑ 8mR Yacht Windsbraut. Accessed January 11, 2009
- ↑ Svante Domizlaff, Alexander Rost: Germania - Die Yachten des Haus Krupp, p. 202 ff
- ↑ Svante Domizlaff, Alexander Rost: Germania - Die Yachten des Haus Krupp), p. 203
- ↑ Svante Domizlaff, Alexander Rost: Germania - Die Yachten des Haus Krupp, p. 204
- ↑ What became of the "Germania" yachts . Hamburger Abendblatt. January 28, 2007. Retrieved January 3, 2009.