Romance (yacht)
 Cruiser racing yacht Romance
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The Romance is a German cruiser racing yacht that was designed by the shipbuilding engineer and yacht constructor Paul Böhling and built in 1950/51 at his shipyard in Hamburg-Harburg . She sails under the German flag with her home port in Hamburg and has covered over 50,000 nautical miles since 1951 .
construction
The ocean-going yacht was as hochgetakelter ketch - long keel with a length of 15.24 m overall (LOA), V-frame shape with Spitzgatter -Heck and spoon bug and positive coverings lowered into the water after completion in June 1951st The deck, i.e. the side view of the ship, is a common expression of "classic lines" in sailing yacht construction and underlines the elegant appearance of the sailing yacht.
Paul Böhling designed the yacht, built as Ursula II , for possible regatta use according to the cruiser racing measurement formula (KR) applicable in Germany from 1949 as a KR-10 yacht as well as for international sporting use according to the Royal Ocean Racing Club -Formula (RORC).
The Siemens-Martin steel hull was fully welded in favor of weight and lower travel resistance, instead of being riveted using the conventional method, and all seams were leveled. In 1950 the process was still a novelty in private yacht building.
The deck (bar deck ) and the superstructure (solid wood) were made of teak, masts and trees made of Nordic spruce, rigging screws and fittings made of bronze. Shrouds and stays are made of stainless steel .
history
The 50-foot yacht Ursula II was commissioned by the transport company Heinrich Peill from Stade at the newly founded Böhling yacht and boat yard in Hamburg-Harburg on the Elbe and individually designed and built by Paul Böhling. Heinrich Peill, himself coming from commercial shipping and ambitious yachtsman, was at the time of contract in the final negotiations of the sale of its bus-route operation of the former Kehdinger orbit to the German Federal Post and imagined a comfortable, classic ocean-going yacht, the addition in the regatta used to sail should be.
For Paul Böhling, this order was not only a substantial boost for the further development of his shipyard, but also a project with high prestige value, and all of his knowledge and skills flowed into this yacht building (construction period 1950–1951). On October 20, 1950, the first self-designed and built Böhling cruiser racing yacht was laid down and in June 1951 she was launched under the name Ursula II . Since this could only be done with the help of a floating crane, the local press addressed the event editorially and with a picture as a stacking flight at Paul Böhling . At the end of June of the same year, the trim trips on the Elbe took place and in July the maiden voyage successfully took the sailing yacht to the Great Belt .
A year later, Heinrich Peill sold the yacht to the Munich engineer and patent attorney Egon Prinz, who renamed it Barbara IV , for economic reasons . The main berths at the time were in Travemünde (summer) and Hamburg (winter).
In 1989, reasons of age prompted Prinz to sell the car to a five-person Hamburg community of owners. Since 1990 the yacht has been sailing under the registered ship name Romance . In 1995 the Romance changed hands again. The new owner had them moved overland to the port of La Rochelle by heavy haulage. From there, the cruiser racing yacht sailed across the Bay of Biscay through the Strait of Gibraltar to the eastern Mediterranean , where she drove in the charter business for five years.
In 2002 a Hamburg advertising salesman bought the Romance and carried out a refit on the classic yacht between 2005 and 2012.
literature
- Frank W .: creative genius with Sturkopp. Look astern. In: Classic. Friends of Classic Yachts (ed.). Kiel March 2011. No. 1, pp. 20–33.
- Tom Körber: Topos of the locus amoenus. The search for a lovely place. In: Sailing Journal , March 2012, No. 48, pp. 12–34, Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Yacht Archive Friends of Classic Yachts . Database of classic yachts existing worldwide. Keyword yacht: Romance . Retrieved November 15, 2015.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Paul Böhling Biography Look achteraus in the "Klassiker", the quarterly trade journal of the "Freundeskreis Classic Yachten e. V. ". No. 1, 2011, pp. 20-33.
- ↑ a b c d e f Jump in time - The designer Böhling. The shipyard . In: Sailing Journal , bimonthly sailing magazine, No. 48, 2012, pp. 26-27.
- ↑ What was built 1952–53 - shipyard survey . In: Yacht , No. 6, 1953, p. 128; Retrieved November 3, 2015.
- ↑ Overview of sports boats built at the Böhling shipyard 1950–1956
- ↑ a b Stacking flight with Paul Böhling - Ursula II goes to water . In: Harburger Nachrichten , June 16, 1951 (with picture).