Joachim Harpprecht
Joachim Harpprecht (* 1953 ) is a German boat designer and boat builder , primarily of sailing dinghies, and a successful regatta sailor . He is also a doctor of biology . Harpprecht lives and works in Kiel .
Success in boat building
His greatest achievement is the construction of the Musto Performance Skiffs , one -handed - Skiff with trapeze and gennaker . In 2000, the boat in Quiberon , France , sailed by Gabriel Wicke , Contender World Champion from 2000, won the ISAF test runs for a new Olympic one-handed class. The English company Ovington Boats has taken over the license to build the Musto Skiff. Based on the knowledge of the construction of the Musto Performance Skiff designed Harpprecht the Light Skiff , a one-handed - Skiff with trapeze and gennaker suitable for sailors from 40 kilogram body weight.
Since 1970 Harpprecht has been sailing the single- handed Contender designed by Ben Lexcen in Australia in 1967 . Since 1975 he has been building plastic contender dinghies himself . The Y-shaped bulkheads under the mast and transverse ribs to stabilize the area around the sword case were new . From 1982 to 2002, Harpprecht Contender built from plywood. Since then he has been producing plastic contenders for the international contender scene. To this end, he works with the Polish boat builder Henrik Chalupka. A Harpprecht plastic Contender, sailed by Jan von der Bank , became world champion in Travemünde in 2005 .
The IORchen was also a Harpprecht design . From 1979 to 1986 he did his own construction not only on the Kiel Fjord . During this time, he took part in the annual miniature world championships with the distinctive plywood hard chine .
Success as a regatta sailor
With the prototype of its plastic Contenders Harpprecht in 1976 before Hayling Iceland , England , European champion ; In 1979 he reached 3rd place at the European Championships on Lake Silvaplana in Switzerland . With the plywood prototype, he became Vice European Champion in 1983 in Porto Sant'Elpidio . In 1985 and 2004 he was German champion at Lake Constance . With his self-made trimaran fly swatter , Harpprecht won the 1998 regatta around Zealand in Denmark . In April 2012, Harpprecht won the North American Contender Championship , which was sailed as Pre-Worlds off St. Petersburg , Florida .
dissertation
Harpprecht was in 1987 at the University of Kiel in biology to Dr. rer. nat. PhD. The title of the dissertation is: Investigations on histocompatibility antigens with the help of monoclonal antibodies .
literature
David Henshall: Hooked On! The International Contender Story . Troubador Publishing Ltd., Leicester 2010, ISBN 9781848763180 .
Web links
- Musto Skiff - Website of the licensee of the Musto Skiff
- German Musto Skiff information page
- Website of the German Contender Class Association
- Homepage of Harpprecht Boat Building Kits
Individual evidence
- ^ National "Hall of Fame" of the German Contender class . German Contender Association. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
- ↑ Inspire skiffs . boat economy 3-2011. Archived from the original on December 5, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 26, 2011.
- ^ Result list Pre-Worlds 2012 . St. Petersburg Yacht Club. Archived from the original on April 30, 2012. Retrieved on April 24, 2012.
- ↑ DNB 890770964
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Harpprecht, Joachim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German boat designer and sailor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |