Knud Reimers

Knud Reimers (1906–1987) was one of the most important Scandinavian yacht designers of the 20th century. He was born in Denmark and educated as a shipwright in Germany at Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in the twenties, a yard building large sailing and motoryachts at the time. He worked as apprentice at Abeking & Rasmussen in (Bremen-)Lemwerder under the supervision of Henry Rasmussen.[1][2] His first employment was in Stockholm at the design studio of the famous naval architect Gustaf Estlander. When Estlander suddenly died at the age of 54 in 1930, the 25-year-old Reimers bought his design practice. He promptly sold six 22m² Skerry cruisers to the Detroit Yacht Club. He later drew plans for the great 75m² Skerry cruiser Bacchant (II) that furthered his reputation as a designer of fast cruisers and racers.

Reimers most celebrated construction is the Tumlare which was designed in the early 1930s (1933 from a majority of sources; No. 1, 'Aibe' was built the next year for Bengt Kinde), and became a popular class worldwide. Examples are to be found all round the Baltic, in the UK, North America and Australia.[3][4] After owning the Tumlare Zara, Adlard Coles bought a 32' Large Tumlare Cohoe, with which he won the Transatlantic Race of 1950.[5]

Reimers went on to design cruisers, offshore racers and a large number of exclusive sailing and motor yachts. Reimers boats are available in numerous countries worldwide and boats are still built to his designs. His drawing archives are at the Maritime Museum in Stockholm.[6] Reimers also designed Motor yachts, e.g. Orwell Class, 25’, (Yachting World 1938)[7] and Swedish Express, 50’. (Yachting World 1938)[7]

Reimers was also a lecturer, and produced films of races like the Tall Ships Race, Bermuda Race, Fastnet Race and Atlantic Race. Knud Reimers argued that in offshore race sailing, the final test is to create boats that can travel at sea in any weather, and said (loosely translated): "The boat is the means to reach the treasure beyond the horizon".[8]

List of Knud Reimers yacht designs

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Reimers designed numerous yachts for the metre Rule and square Metre or Skerry cruiser rule classes; they are known variously by length in metres or (more often) feet, and also often by their square metre rating etc. which together with the re-use of several names may justify this table as an attempt towards clarifying the confusing variety of naming conventions…

Year Class or Boat Name LOA Ft Beam Ft Builders Name Number Built Notes
1933 TUMLARE 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Various "At least 200"[9] "Some 600"[10] [11] 20m²
1934 SCHARENKREUZER 30SQM 40 ft 0 in (12.19 m) 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) Various [12]
1934 HOCCO 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) [13] 28m² on a Tumlare Hull for sailing on lake Geneva
1934 5½ S9 Blåsut 35 ft 2 in (10.72 m) 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) Williams, Motala [14] Nordisk Kryssare 5½ S9 Blåsut

[15] Swedish Maritime museum

1936 Bacchant (II) 62 ft 0 in (18.90 m) 9 ft 10 in (3.00 m) [16] (cf 1937 ‘Bacchante’ 42’6”;[17] cf also[7]);( “75m²” [18]) -original Bacchant an Estlander 30m², 1928
1937 STORTUMLARE ("Large Tumlare") aka ALBATROSS [19] 32 ft 0 in (9.75 m) 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) (2.3m given at[20]) – Numerous Examples on the web; 30m²
1937Havsornen52 ft 0 in (15.85 m)11 ft 0 in (3.35 m)Holms Batvarv
1939 Siska 50 ft 6 in (15.39 m) 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) – Knud Reimers 40m² boat modified for the Sydney-Hobart Race [18][21]
1941 Onwards SCHARENKREUZER S22 37 ft 0 in (11.28 m) 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) [22] – 36’ given in[7] 22m²
1948 Agneta 82 ft 0 in (24.99 m) 13 ft 9 in (4.19 m) Yawl[16]
1955 UDELL one design 36 ft 3 in (11.05 m) 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) Raymond Cheekmore [23] Note: a one design sub-class of the 22m² class [24] for Chicago YC?[25] 1953
1955[7] C(H)AMELEON CLASS 29 ft 0 in (8.84 m) 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) Various ‘2 dozen built for 1956’ [26][27] cf forum on classicboat.co.uk
1960 BACCHANT IV 35 ft 10 in (10.92 m) 9 ft 0 in (2.74 m) Vasteras Fiberplast ca. 100 [23] BACCHANT III a one design yawl
1964 Bijou 40 ft 9 in (12.42 m) 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) e.g. I. Beck & Sohne, Bodensee classic 30 m²[16] southern Germany. cf Bijou II in N America[28]
1964 FINGAL 27 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) 28’ given in[29] 7 ft 10 in (2.39 m) Fisksatra Varv ca. 200
1972 S 30 cf also S30-93 41 ft 0 in (12.50 m) (40’/12.3m in [17](???)) 8 ft 2 in (2.49 m) AB Fisksatra varv, Sweden; Crown Yacht, Sweden 305 according to;[29] 111, built between ‘30s and ‘90s listed at [12] 30 sqm The project name was originally Gota 30 which was later changed to O 30 and finally to S 30. types A30 and S30;[12] Sometimes Swede 41/ S30: aka Skerry41 30m²/ 41ft Loa
1975 SWEDE 55 52 ft 6 in (16.00 m) 53’[7] 10 ft 0 in (3.05 m) Crown Yacht, Sweden designed at request of some of Stockholms Royal Swedish Yacht Club members[30] 55m² aka SWEDE 52 (52' 6" loa)
1982 JUBILEE S40[23] 47 ft 3 in (14.40 m) 8 ft 10 in (2.69 m) Tufa Marin.[31] 9 designed to celebrate Remiers' 50th anniversary as a yacht designer, 4 boats in Germany and 5 in Sweden.[32] 40m²
1986[29] SK 30/40 40 ft 0 in (12.19 m) 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) Jansson & Zarin 7[29] 30m²/ 40 ft Loa
1993 (posth.) S30-93 41 ft 0 in (12.50 m) (40’/12.3m in [17](???)) 8 ft 2 in (2.49 m) AB Fisksatra varv, Sweden; Crown Yacht, Sweden 305 according to;[29] 111, built between ‘30s and ‘90s listed at [12] 1993 updated version of S30, with increased sail area by extending the boom and increasing the foretriangle: at this stage the original was termed 'S30 classic'[17] -see also sv:S 30

Further notes: Sensa is given as a 5m class; 6m designs are mentioned; a number of individual boats to Reimers' designs are listed on the Australian square metre association website,[17] e.g. Wings 44’, 1938/ Joyous- plans 1958/ Lady in Red: similarly, Jibslist[26] mentions the 41' GOTA (original project name for the S30) and the 42'8" SCHARENKREUZER 40S.


References

  1. ↑ Classic Yacht info – reimers
  2. ↑ http://www.pia.hostoi.com/Knud_Reimers.html
  3. ↑ A web site for Tumlaren
  4. ↑ http://www.pia.hostoi.com/Knud_Reimers_2.html
  5. ↑ Erroll Bruce: DEEP SEA SAILING http://archive.org/stream/deepseasailing030367mbp/deepseasailing030367mbp_djvu.txt
  6. ↑ http://www.sjohistoriska.se/en/Collections/Archives/
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 http://www.nmmc.co.uk
  8. ↑ Sonja Herlin, Blå Horisont (Blue Horizon), Rabén och Sjögren, Stockholm 1983.
  9. ↑ http://sailboatdata.com/viewrecord.asp?class_id=6505
  10. ↑ http://www.tumlare.org.uk/history.html
  11. ↑ http://www.classicboatclasses.co.uk/#/tumlaren/4563508404
  12. 1 2 3 4 http://www.30er.com/yachtregister/index.html?fuseaction=suche&suchwort=Knud+H.+Reimers&suchen=suchen
  13. ↑ http://www.voilesdantan.org/index.php/saint-bonaventure-hocco-1934
  14. ↑ http://blåsut.com
  15. ↑ http://www.sjohistoriska.se/sv/Fordjupning/MarketStore/Ritning/?msobjid=0005669&Origin=SM
  16. 1 2 3 http://www.swedesail.de/en/knud-reimers
  17. 1 2 3 4 5 http://www.asqma.com
  18. 1 2 http://www.Swedesail.de
  19. ↑ http://www.woodenboat.com.au/register/listing.asp?boatid=14477
  20. ↑ http://www.ihamn.se/bat/stortumlare
  21. ↑ http://www.asqma.com/yacht%20profiles/Siska.html
  22. ↑ http://www.sk22.se/p/jaktregister.html
  23. 1 2 3 http://sailboatdata.com/view_designer.asp?designer_id=51
  24. ↑ http://www.22squaremeters.com/html/boat_list.HTM
  25. ↑ http://classicsailboats.org
  26. 1 2 http://jibslist.com/BoatlistDes.aspx?Design_Id=599&Fullname=Reimers,%20Knud
  27. ↑ http://www.jibslist.com/Specifications.aspx?boatid=15543&boatname=CHAMELEON+CLASS&builder_id=1904&frompage=BoatListBld.aspx
  28. ↑ http://www.woodenboat.com/bijou-ii
  29. 1 2 3 4 5 http://www.maringuiden.se
  30. ↑ http://www.swedesail.de/en/swede55/
  31. ↑ http://www.segeln-magazin.de/jubilee-s40/2723
  32. ↑ http://www.sailguide.com/Reimers_jub40.htm
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