Hansa dinghy
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| Boat dimensions | |
| Length above : | 5.85 m |
| Length WL : | 4.85 m |
| Width above sea level : | 1.65 m |
| Freeboard : | 0.68 m |
| Draft : | 0.5 / 1.0 m |
| Weight (ballast, keel): | 150 kg |
| Sail area | |
| Sail area close to the wind : | 14 m² |
| Mainsail : | 9.95 m² |
| Jib : | 4.05 m² |
| Others | |
| Rigging type: | Sloop |
| Class : | national unit class |
The Hansa dinghy was presented in 1947 by Henry Rasmussen , the founder of the renowned Abeking & Rasmussen (A&R) shipyard , based on a first design from 1920. At that time, Henry Rasmussen built a small dinghy called the Viska for two friends in Copenhagen , with which one-handed long journeys in the Scandinavian Baltic region were made. The particularly good experience with the dinghy encouraged the shipyard to start over after the war, as the regulations of the occupying powers meant that larger boats were not allowed to be built. The Viska design got more freeboard and draft and above all a fixed, lockable cabin superstructure .
Abeking & Rasmussen built this dinghy under the name "Hansa-Jolle" for around 20 years in large numbers. Due to its particularly good sailing characteristics, it was soon to be found in many areas. In 1960 it was recognized as the national class of the DSV . The A&R shipyard, which previously had the monopoly for the construction of the Hansa dinghy, released the plans for construction by other boatyards .
The name dinghy is actually misleading, because the Hansa dinghy is a keel sword with its fixed fin and its depth of 50 cm . The ballast keel of 150 kg and the width of 1.65 meters give the sailboat stability. The Hansa dinghy is unsinkable thanks to the buoyancy tanks that are sealed off and filled with solid foam .
The Hansa dinghy became known to a wider public through two now famous sailors:
- Rollo Gebhard (triple circumnavigator ) sailed in 1959 with his first Solveig , a Hansa dinghy from Abeking & Rasmussen, across the Mediterranean to Tunis and with this boat again spectacularly in 1960/61 across the Mediterranean, through the Suez Canal over the Red Sea to Mukalla in the Gulf of Aden .
- In 2003, the German one-handed circumnavigator Wilfried Erdmann undertook a 144-day sailing trip (1268 nautical miles ) with a Hansa dinghy ( Kathena Gunilla ) built by A&R in 1954 through the northern German coastal waters and the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania lake district .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilfried Erdmann: A German sailing summer . Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2007