Monarch (boat class)
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| Boat dimensions | |
| Length above : | 5.29 m |
| Length WL : | 4.35 m |
| Width above sea level : | 1.91 m |
| Draft : | 0.97 m |
| Mast height : | 7.55 m |
| Weight (ready to sail): | 390 kg |
| Weight (ballast, keel): | 108 kg |
| Sail area | |
| Sail area close to the wind : | 12.2 m² |
| Others | |
| Rigging type: | Cat |
| Yardstick number : | 117 |
| Class : | national |
The monarch is a type of boat belonging to the sailing boat class . It is an open keelboat with cat rigging that is only driven with a mainsail and is therefore suitable for one-handed sailing . The retractable keel can be locked in any position and can also be trimmed forwards and backwards without the need for a disturbing sword case . The monarch is therefore also called "one-handed lifting keelboat". The boat is very krängungsstabil and capsize . It has a self-draining cockpit .
history
The sailor Horst Schlichting wanted to design a sailing boat together with Heribert Streuer that could be used to set sails and set sail quickly without a jib . In 1968 she developed the rift of the first monarch. The first hulls were built in molded plywood by Edmund Sommerfeld and Hartmut Biewald. Glass fiber reinforced versions were built by the Biewald and Scharping shipyards up to sail number G 110.
From 1974 onwards, the boat was made in double-shell press foam production (depot process) by the plastics processing company Georg Fritzmeier (known, among others, from the two-man dinghy 'Dyas') (sail numbers from G 111 to G 348).
From 1983 the Monarch was manufactured by the Hamburg company Fiberglas Technik Lehmann + Jacob GmbH (sail numbers GER 349 to GER 400).
In 2003 a new production period began. Initially, the Monarch was manufactured by the Linnekuhl Schütze KG shipyard, and continued by the MKS shipyard (sail numbers GER 401 to 405) until production was discontinued in 2006.
After a long search for a new producer, a new edition of the dinghy was developed in spring 2010 by the Schneidereit boatyard in Stade. A modified monarch was created from a new shape with the traditional dimensions, which the class association presented for the first time at the Hanseboot boat fair in Hamburg in 2010.
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