Heti (yacht)

Heti

12 mR Heti

Ship data flag  Germany Ship type Classic sailing yacht class 12mR home port Hamburg Owner Hamburg Maritime Foundation Shipyard Oertz shipyard , Hamburg Launch 1912

Ship dimensions and crew length 18.60 m ( Lüa ) width 3.50 m Draft Max. 2.80 m displacement approx. 27 t   crew 6 to 15

Rigging and rigging Rigging Gaff rigging Number of masts 1 Number of sails 6: Mainsail , top, flyer , jib , cutter, gennaker Sail area 230.5, gennaker 200 m²

Others

The Heti is a gaff-rigged classic sailing yacht of the 12mR class . It was built in 1912 in Hamburg by yacht designer Max Oertz , among other things, for Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach the Schooner Germania (1908) and for the German Emperor Wilhelm II. The yachts Meteor IV (1908) and Meteor V constructed (1913).

The Heti is a First-Rule -12mR with mahogany planks on wooden and steel frames .

history

The yacht was commissioned by the Lübeck entrepreneur Hermann Eschenburg , who named it after his daughter Hedwig - Heti. Eschenburg sailing with Heti up to the First World War in regattas . The Heti won the Kieler Woche several times . In 1923 Eschenburg had to sell his yacht for economic reasons.

The buyer was the Berlin industrialist Max Hamers, who renamed the boat in Traum and moved it to the Wannsee . In the 1930s, the yacht came to Kiel , where it was re-rigged to the yawl and used as a cruising cruiser. It was used as a houseboat during and after World War II .

After the war, she was under the name Nathurn owned by the Bremer Heinz Harmssen. Harmsen she sold in 1953 (another source: 1960) to the Hanseatic Yacht School Glücksburg they in tern rechristened. In 1966 she went to Flensburg as Moby Dick .

In 1967 (other source: 1968) the Hamburgers Peter Himstedt and Karl Massberg bought the yacht. The two had the yacht repaired and rebuilt. The bow was given a new shape, the hull was covered with a plastic layer. The boat got an engine and a single- masted high rig . Under her new name Saturn she won regattas again, including the Lower Elbe Blue Ribbon several times .

In 1978 the yacht changed owner and name again: Friedrich Goebel renamed the boat Saturn and moved it to Imperia in northern Italy. However, Hamburg remained the home port. She also took part successfully in regattas in the Mediterranean . On September 12, 1998, the rig was badly damaged in a takeoff accident.

The owner Goebel gave the boat to the Hamburg association Jugend in Arbeit e. V. , from which the Hamburg Maritime Foundation took over in 2001. In 1999 the boat came to Hamburg by ship and was restored as a gaff-rigged yacht from 2002 to 2005.

Web links

• Homepage of the Heti
• Heti at the Hamburg Maritime Foundation
• Directory of 12 meter yachts (12mR)
• Article from the yacht for the 100th birthday of Heti
• Article from the Hamburger Abendblatt about the return of the Heti to Hamburg in 1999

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b} Homepage of the Heti - Historie , accessed on May 10, 2019.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} 12 Meter Class - Heti , accessed on May 10, 2019.
3. ^ Friends of Classic Yachts - Max Oertz (1871 - 1929) , accessed on May 10, 2019.