Tumlare

Development
Designer Knud Reimers
Boat
Draft 1.30 m (4.3 ft)
Hull
LOA 8.30 m (27.2 ft)
LWL 6.65 m (21.8 ft)
Beam 1.95 m (6.4 ft)

The Tumlare (lit. Porpoise) is a class of canoe-sterned (or 'double-ended') yacht designed by Knud Reimers. The design dates from the early 1930s (1933 from a majority of sources; No. 1, Aibe was built the next year for Bengt Kinde).[1] The Tumlaren is 8.30 metres (27.2 ft) overall;[2] the design was strongly endorsed as a 'very advanced type' by Uffa Fox who was especially interested in the composite method of construction employed, with metal frames interspersed between the timber ones.[3]

The class became popular worldwide. Examples are to be found all round the Baltic, in the UK, North America and Australia.[4] The total number built is given variously from 'At least 200'[5] to 'Some 600',[6] with '660' given in Vanessa Bird's 'Classic Classes'.[3]

As standard, the class carries 20 square metres (220 sq ft) of sail,[5][7] however a variant known as the Hocco is a class with the same hull but 28 square metres (300 sq ft) of sail, conceived for sailing on inland waters, specifically Lake Geneva.[8]

The larger sister class, the 32' Large Tumlare, Stortumlare, or 'Albatross' class is a related design.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "AIBE, S1 TUMLAREN". woodenboat.com.
  2. ↑ Bremberg, Fred; Seth, Staffan (1965), Segelbåtstyper: kortfattade beskrivningar med igenkänningstecken och dimensionsuppgifter för svenska segelbåtar (in Swedish) (2nd revised ed.), Stockholm: Aldus/Bonnier, p. 51
  3. 1 2 Vanessa Bird. Classic Classes. p. 150.
  4. ↑ "Startsidan/Home - Reimers Tumlaren". Reimers Tumlaren.
  5. 1 2 "TUMLAREN sailboat specifications and details on sailboatdata.com". sailboatdata.com.
  6. ↑ "Tumlare Owners Group". tumlare.org.uk.
  7. ↑ "HOME - Classic Boat Classes". classicboatclasses.co.uk.
  8. ↑ "Saint Bonaventure - Hocco (1934) - Atelier des Voiles d'Antan du Léman (AVAL)". Atelier des Voiles d'Antan du Léman (AVAL).
  9. ↑ "Celeste - Wooden Boat". woodenboat.com.au.
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