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Nini Anker (Johan Anker 434)

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Design 434 of the famous Norwegian designer Johan Anker, dating from 1939, his last 12-metre and his second-last design overall

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Classic International Dragon

• Designer: Johan Anker
• Builder: Camper and Nicholson
• Location: Cornwall
• Length on deck: 29'3"
• Draft: 3'10"

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Classic international dragon yacht for sale, 29 ft sailing boat for sale.

International Dragon was designed by Johan Anker and built by Camper and Nicholson in 1947, yard No.740.

She was one of 4 Dragons built by C&N that year, including Bluebottle, a wedding present from the Island Sailing Club to the late Queen Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Philip.

The Dragon is a Scandinavian design from the pen of Johan Anker and was first drawn in 1929. A fast and exciting boat to sail that has become popular worldwide, with many examples being built not only in Scandinavia but right across Europe.  The Class is still very active today, and the boats are now built in GRP and raced very competitively.

This boat was completely rebuilt by the previous owner between 2000 – 2002, full list of work done below.

Since 2004 she has been sailed by the current owner in and around Falmouth, used for day sailing in the summer and stored undercover every winter.

She has a custom-made road trailer from Tyrone Snell, making her versatile and easy to keep.

Length on Deck                 29’3”

Length Waterline             18’8”

Beam                                    6’5”

Draft                                      3’10”

2000-2002 refit work

• Hull stripped to bare wood and seams splined
• All cracked timbers replaced
• All new bronze screw plank fastenings
• New bronze keel bolts
• New transom
• New teak on ply deck
• Coachroof rebuilt with new deck
• Hull faired and painted with 2 pack polyurethane paint

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Construction

Carvel planked in pitch pine all bronze screw fastened to steam bent oak timbers.  All new screw fastenings in the refit.

Bottom 5 planks each side fastened with copper rivets.

During the major rebuild the hull was splined to give a tight and fair finish.

Heavy sawn timber floors across the centreline with keel bolts passing through them.

External lead ballast keel of 1 ton with bronze keel bolts.  New keel bolts in the refit.

Marine plywood bulkheads fore and aft of the cockpit bonded to the hull with epoxy for added rigidity.

Plywood hanging knees bonded into the hull with epoxy.

Yacht laid teak deck with varnished teak covering boards and king plank.  Teak deck is glued to a marine plywood sub deck that is screwed to the deck beams.

Simple cockpit with varnished bench seat either side and a painted plywood sole boards.

Small coachroof in the Dragon style with varnished mahogany coamings and a laid teak coachroof deck.

Masthead Bermudan sloop rig on a keel stepped varnished spruce mast.

Varnished spruce slab reefing boom.

Stainless steel standing rigging to internal stainless steel chain plates.  These have been fixed to large wooden blocks bonded to the side of the hull which spread the load of the rig down the topsides.

Plastimo roller furling headsail system

Pair of original bronze cockpit sheet winches plus a newer pair of Anderson non-self tailing cockpit sheet winches.

Set of Patrick Selman sails in fair condition including mainsail and genoa, also a spinnaker plus a collection of spare sails which include a set of North Sails.

Tyrone Snell twin axle galvanised road trailer

5hp outboard engine with bracket

Mainsail and genoa by North Sails

Mainsail cover

Spinnaker plus other spare sails

Spinnaker pole

Plastimo roller furling genoa system

Whale Gusher manual bilge pump

Cockpit cover

Warps and fenders

15kg CQR anchor with warp and chain

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Johan Anker (1871-1940) is Norway’s foremost designer of racing yachts. From 1905 to 1940, more than 350 boats were launched from the Anker & Jensen boatyard in Vollen, Asker, Norway.

Johan Anker did not only design stunning boats, he also sailed them to victory in major international regattas. His talent for sailing combined with an artist’s eye for lines and an engineer’s drive to constantly improve things, all merged to produce unique yachts such as ROLLO, APACHE, NORNA, SILJA and the popular Dragon class.

Johan Anker lived through a unique period of Norwegian history and the authors explore Ankers passionate commitment to society and his vast network of contacts – encompassing royalty, politics and industry.

This book gives a profound insight into the life of one of the giants of 20th century yacht design and provides fascinating snapshots of Norwegian life before the outbreak of World War II.

Nic Compton

Johan Anker was one of the most important figures in yachting for much of the 20th century, yet remarkably little has been written about him. Until now. This book gives a lively account of the man who more than anyone else mastered the ‘Metre’ Rule and produced a string of strikingly fast and elegant yachts. Along the way, we delve into a unique period of Norwegian history and meet many of the key players in the country at that time. This is a rich biography which will appeal to sailors and landlubbers alike.

Nic Compton is a former editor of Classic Boat, turned freelance writer/photographer and author of 11 books on maritime topics.

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Boat Details

Designer: Johan Anker 

Builder: Anker & Jensen Yard

Model: 6 Metre

Boat Location: Helsinki, Finland

Price: €35,000 

Length: 37 ft 09 in 

Beam: 5 ft 9 in

Hull Material: Wood 

Description 

Victoria – FIN 76 was designed by Johan Anker and built at his yard Anker & Jensen in 1933.  She has spent much of her life in Norway, but was put back to racing trim in 2003 at the Elephant Boatyard and has been seen racing since. 

In 2014 Victoria was subject of a restoration which took place in Finland for her current owner. This saw her having a ring frame fitted around the mast, broken ribs replaced, considerable work done below the waterline and her deck equipment updated.

Victoria comes with number of racing and cruising sails, along with equipment which makes her race ready. She is an extremely robust and fast in strong winds.

She is currently lying in Helsinki, Finland ready for her next chapter.

Victoria is another beautiful 6 Metre from Johan Anker, designed and built at Anker & Jensen in 1933. Johan is most famous for his design of the International Dragon Class, however he designed a number of 6 Metres. Before designing Victoria (ex Una IV) he had already designed and built his own 6 Metre, ABU in 1930 in which he was successful.  

Victoria (Una IV) was built for Rolf Svinndal in Oslo, she was the second 6 to be built and deigned by Johan in 1933. Rolf commissioned the build of Una IV to take part in the 50th anniversary of the KNS regatta in 1933. He wanted a beautiful yacht which would turn heads and that just what Johan designed and built. 

1935 until 2003 Victoria was based in Norwegian waters, changing hands a number of times and having many different names. In 2003 Victoria was purchased by Argentinian, Martin Belvisi, and shipped back to the Elephant Boatyard in the UK and had a refit undertaken to get her back into racing trim.

Victoria then took part in the 6 Metre regattas in the UK, including the Worlds in 2007 where she placed 15th in the classic fleet. Notably she was helmed by Tim Street in the 2007 British Opens. 

2014 saw Victoria purchased by her current owner and transported to Finland where a 2 year restoration was undertaken at Janne Pettersson’s boatyard (this is where yearly maintenance work has also been undertaken). During this restoration all structural parts were checked and replaced where necessary to ensure that Victoria could take the loads under sail. New stainless ring frame fitted around the mast, along with all broken ribs replaced.

In the current ownership Victoria has taken part in Finnish regattas every summer and in the Worlds which took place in Finland in 2019. A much admired 6 Metre from Johan Anker.

Details of the boat are also recorded on the 6 Metre Archives, which can be found HERE

Recent Works

Broken ribs replaced (2015-2016) 

Keel bolts (2015) 

Stainless steel ring frame (2017) 

Rudder rebuilt (2018) 

Below deck steering linkage system (2018)

Electronics  

Tacktick wireless system - 3 displays (2007)

12v battery with shore power and solar panel charging 

Deck Equipment

Three Lewmar 30ST winches for mainsheet and runners

Two Pontos 46ST winches for genoa (2016) 

One Lewmar 30 winch for halyards 

Genoa lead tracks with adjustable cars

Mainsheet traveler  

Spars/Rigging

Allspars aluminium mast (2007)

Allspars aluminium boom (2015) 

Selden aluminium spinnaker pole (2018) 

Bartel endless furling system (2016) 

Rod rigging (backstay, forestay and shrouds) (2007) 

Dynema runners 

Dynema main and genoa halyards  

Medium / Heavy: North Sails 3DL 600 main (2016) 

Heavy: Quantum main (2007). 

Dacron transfer mainsail with reefing holes 

Light MAXX A15/A06 Black Aramid WB Sails genoa 1 (2018). 

Medium High-Tech Racing Membrane Carbon/ Twaron Black 2x LtSkin Black (2019).

Medium North Sails 3DL genoa 1 (2016). 

Heavy Quantum genoa 2 (2007). 

Assortment of Dacron transfer foresails (from jib to genoa)

Light (0.5) spinnaker 

Medium (0.5 – 0.7) spinnaker 

Heavy (0.6 – 0.7) spinnaker 

Additional  Information

One Automatic electric bilge pumps. 

One Manual bilge pump. 

Fenders and mooring lines

Fully documented history of owners. 

Copies of original drawings available

Current and valid measurement certificate

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Make & Model

MEASUREMENTS

Description.

PANDORA is the only gaff-rigged 9mR now in existence. Designed by Johan Anker and built by the famous Anker Jensen yard, she remains impressively original. Of all the famous designers of his era Anker was probably the best helmsman. It would seem his understanding of what was needed to make a boat go fast and his preoccupation with the subtle beauty of lines revealed a purity - rather understated, which nevertheless can take your breath away

With short Nordic 5 months seasons and wintering in tented storage she has been very well looked after and as important, is a most beautiful classic yacht to the eye of any beholder – and a dream to sail.

Her current owner - for five seasons - has carried out extensive works; all major repairs having been done by a professional boatyard. She has moreover been maintained to a high standard, especially the hull, bright work and woodwork.

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PANDORA is probably the only gaff-rigged 9mR now in existence. Designed by Johan Anker and built by the famous Anker Jensen yard, she remains impressively original. Of all the famous designers of his era Anker was probably the best helmsman. It would seem his understanding of what was needed to make a boat go fast and his preoccupation with the subtle beauty of lines revealed a purity - rather understated, which nevertheless can take your breath away 

Her current owner - for eight seasons - has carried out extensive works; all major repairs having been done by a professional boatyard. She has moreover been maintained to a high standard, especially the hull, bright work and woodwork.

PANDORA is probably the first R boat in the World, built to the first R Rule of 1907. Johan Anker was one of the architects behind this rule, which was agreed upon in London in late 1906 and operating from 1907. During the winter 1906 / 07 the Anker & Jensen shipyard in Norway had 11 big boats built; 8 of them to the new rule. PANDORA was also the first to be completed and was launched in February 1907. During her 100 year – nay 108 year history she has only had 8 owners; one of whom was for 30 years and another for 28! This is probably one of the reasons why she is still very original and in great shape. She was originally gaff rigged, but then rigged as a Bermuda in 1921, and stayed that way for about 80 years, winning several races meanwhile. In 2001 she was re rigged back to gaff, and awarded the special prize for “Best sailing yacht” at Risør woodenboatfestival in 2007. Full historical information including the identities of all her owners, is available as well as historic photographs of the boat.

Construction

Carvel mahogany on grown oak frames (retaining c 80% of original hull frames and planking)

Teak deck planking 10 mm thick on double plywood, new in 1985, mostly on original deck frames

Accommodation and Domestic Equipment

The partly original interior from 1907 is of mahogany and Japanese hardwood.  Modifications were made in the 1960s.  She has accommodation for 6.

Entering via the cockpit through double opening doors the saloon with single settee berths each side and drop leaf dining table between, lies forward. Aft to port and starboard are single pilot berths. Forward to port is the galley with Techimpex gimballed 2 top burner gas hob and oven (new 2008) to port, Fridge and sink to starboard, also with cupboard stowage. Forward to port is the head - refitted from 2008 in the style of original. A corridor leads forward to the fore cabin with single Vee berths with anchor chain container forward.

Rig Spars and Sails

- In 2003 converted back to gaff rig, although boom slightly shorter than the original - All wire, rigging details, wood blocks and ropes new - Original (hollow) mast from 1912 reshaped and restored - New boom and gaff boom - New booms for topsail and balloon sail - All rigging wires / ropes maintained and changed when worn - Sails by Quantum Sails 2002 / 3, maintained and repaired when necessary -  Large jib on roller by Tarpon Seil AS, new 2013 replaces staysail and old jib -  Staysail on roller by Tarpon Seil AS, new 2014 - New sail covers for all sails, also new covers for butterfly hatch skylight 2007

Deck Equipment and Ground Tackle

- Original style bronze windlass, new 2008 - Bruce anchor - 50 metre galvanised 10mm anchor chain

Mechanical Electrical and Tankage

- Vetus M 3.28 3 cylinder 28 HP, new under warranty for 1 year from 1st Qtr 2012 - Bronze 3 bladed propellor and stainless steel shaft new 2008 - Electric cabling, fuse box, lamps new from 2006 - Double battery bank - Start battery - Syrefast stainless steel fuel tanks c 90 litre (2003)

Navigation Communication and Electronics

- GPS / chart plotter / depth sounder, new 2010

- 2 x Separate electric bilge pump systems - Manual bilge pump new 2009

Refit and Restoration

2003 -  Stern / aft restored to original shape and length 2006 / 7 - New wooden keel and keel bolts - Lower parts of 4  sets of frames in area of mast renewed - Mast foot - Wooden structures - Floors over wooden keel; stainless (Syrefast) flat steel from frames to structures / floors - 2 bottom planks each side towards wooden keel - New knee and part of stern 2008 - 3 Planks on port side when new fittings for axle and propeller installed 2010 - Part of fore stem changed and 2 planks on starboard side. - Deck restored and caulked 2013   - Stern / transom restored to original shape and length

Other Equipment

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Displacement(kgs)

ABOUT JOHAN ANKER

The Johan Anker is 52 feet long and has a 9.4 feet beam

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Johan Anker 49ft Q-Class Sloop 1925/2004

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BROKER'S COMMENTS

This thoroughbred sailing yacht continues to turn heads and offer only transom views. At around 50 feet on deck, Q-Class yachts offer fun racing for a bunch of friends in boats that look gorgeous - at the dock or on the water - with performance that lives up to looks. As COTTON BLOSSON II she hit the ground running in her debut 2006 season on the Mediterranean classic regatta circuit with restoring owner America’s Cup legend Dennis Conner at the helm. And back to her original name, LEONORE, her astounding winning ways continue under present ownership, with two Panerai Classic Yacht Challenge overall wins and countless class victories to her credit including at Les Voiles de Saint Tropez in consecutive years 2011 to 2016.

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RESTORATION

During a 2003-2004 second life restoration at San Diego led by Johnny Smullen, she was stripped of non-original and structurally timed-out elements, leaving a remarkable amount of original structure as a sound base to work back up from, with some of the longitudinal backbone saved and about 80% of the original planks. Although she had kept her shape - a huge nod to the quality of the original build in Norway by Anker & Jensen - all her frames required replacing, with laminated oak replacing steamed. Inevitably an 80-year-old boat will need a new deck and probably a new mast, and she got them. Dennis Conner went for a taller rig than class rules on the basis that she'd been a handicap racer most of her life and would continue to be so - and she could stand it. The quality of the work was exceptionally high, with Bill Mahyer commenting in a post-restoration WoodenBoat magazine article: "If they could get her through the doors at Sotheby’s or Christie’s, she’d be right at home among the Hepplewhites and the Chippendales." (WoodenBoat July/August 2005). Subsequently, during a 2007 refit in Tuscany, Italy, at Cantiere Navale dell'Argentario to improve stronger airs performance and to better conform with the CIM rating rule's heavily-weighted authenticity factor, the mast was shortened closer to Q-Class height and a lighter boom fitted. Subsequent race results speak from themselves.

When shipped to North America in 1925 by her Norwegian builders Anker & Jensen, LEONORE’s design and build provenance added Scandinavian finesse to the American Universal Rule of Measurement – the same rule the larger J-Class yachts were and kind of still are built to. Along with build sister SALLY XIII, LEONORE and her commissioning owner, Robert Amory of Boston, joined a Marblehead Q-Class fleet that would peak at 14 boats by 1929; 14 thoroughbred 50-footers coming to the start line would have been quite something. They weren't the only Universal Rule boats designed in Europe for sailing in US waters; around the same time, for example, Scotland's William Fife and England's Charles Nicholson joined Anker in having R-Class designs racing successfully on the West and East Coasts, some built by American yards. LEONORE was born into a fascinating period of truly international yacht design intrigue set around very sporty boats. In 1931 she moved to the other side of Cape Cod and the perfect, breezy sailing waters of Buzzards Bay where, as PALOMA, she became Champion boat and won the Block Island Race during James Jackson's short period of ownership. She then became the second of Walter Wheeler's famous COTTON BLOSSOMS, winning the Astor Cup in 1938 (a later COTTON BLOSSOM would be the 75ft William Fife designed 1926 Fastnet Race winner HALLOWE'EN). Once a thoroughbred, always a thoroughbred: by 1940 she had moved inland to Chicago as SCIMITAR with continued handicap racing success in the hands of William Faurot and Charles Deere Wiman, in particular coming 3rd in the 1941 Mackinac Race, and 2nd in 1942 and 1943. By 1949 she found herself on the US west coast in the ownership (as a gift) of Deere Wiman's daughter Mary Jane Wiman Brinton and regained the name COTTON BLOSSOM II, which she would retain through a succession of west coast owners for over 60 years. These included: Ted Halton, winning line-honours in the 1959 Swiftsure; Ed Turner, who retrieved the prestigious San Diego Sir Thomas Lipton Challenge Cup for the owning club in 1965; the Cole family, with Doug Cole meticulously recording and sharing her history online, for which we are indebted, and, from 2003, America's Cup legend Dennis Conner who gave her a new lease of life through an outstanding restoration. We deal with that elsewhere here, but shouldn't leave California without mentioning that Dennis Conner's link with COTTON BLOSSOM II went back much further than 2003: he was one of the 1965 Lipton Cup-winning crew. COTTON BLOSSOM II's re-christening took place at San Diego YC on 14 October 2004; a remarkable gathering of past owners. Conner shipped her to the Mediterranean in 2006 to join its thriving circuit of classic regattas, where she has enjoyed outstanding success under his and subsequent ownership, racing among more Universal Rule and other American designs than would be possible in their original home waters. In 2007, the taller rig installed by Conner was cut back by Cantiere Navale dell'Argentario to a more authentic length, resulting in the improved stronger winds performance that has helped her recent enviable winning ways, continued under present ownership since 2013 - including: 2011 - Cannes Régates Royales - 1st in Class - Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez - 1st in Class 2012 - Les Voiles d'Antibes - 1st in Class - Argentario Sailing Week - 2nd in Class - Cannes Régates Royales - 1st in Class - Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge - Overall Winner - Vintage Class - Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez - 1st in Class 2013 - Les Voiles d'Antibes - 1st in Class - Argentario Sailing Week - 2nd in Class - Cannes Régates Royales - 1st in Class - Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge - Overall Winner - Vintage Class - Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez - 1st in Class 2014 - Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez - 1st in Class 2015 - Les Voiles d'Antibes - 1st in Class - Vela Clásica Menorca - 2nd in Class - Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge - 3rd Overall - Vintage Class - Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez - 1st in Class 2016 - Les Voiles d'Antibes - 2nd in Class - Argentario Sailing Week - 1st in Class - Vele d'Epoca di Imperia - 1st in Class - Cannes Régates Royales - 2nd in Class - Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge - 2nd Overall - Vintage Class - Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez - 1st in Class 2017 - Cannes Régates Royales - 3rd in Class LEONORE has always been a winner! ©2024 Iain McAllister/ Sandeman Yacht Company Ltd. With thanks to Doug Cole. His history of this special yacht can be found at: http://www.toandos.com/DCole1.html

CONSTRUCTION

- Mahogany planking (c80% original) - Laminated American oak frames - Full length Douglas fir bilge stringers - Douglas fir beam shelf - Additional clamp in way of mast - Double bronze plate hanging knees in way of mast - Bronze deck head to mast step rod tie-bar

DECK LAYOUT, EQUIPMENT AND GROUND TACKLE

Deck - Teak laid deck - Varnished mahogany king plank and covering boards - Raw teak toerails Aft - Ash and bronze leather covered runner blocks and tackles - Ash and bronze leather covered mainsheet blocks - Varnished mahogany lazarette hatch - Raised varnished mahogany cockpit coaming Cockpit 6 x (3 each side port and starboard) bronze winches: - Aft (runners) - Harken 44 - Mid (mainsheet) - Harken 56 - Fwd (jib) Harken - 56 - Engine panel in shallow aft bulkhead locker - Helmsman seats port and starboard aft - Sheet tail bags port and starboard - Trimmer seats port and starboard fwd - Teak sole with teak foot/ kick strip Mahogany cabin trunk - Holly inlay trim - Mahogany sliding hatch with holly inlay - Butterfly skylight - 4 x ports in trunk sides port and starboard - Teak chocks port and starboard for spinnaker pole Foredeck - Varnished mahogany king plank - Raised foredeck hatch with 'lemon squeezer' prism - Stainless steel bow roller - Anchor and warp stowed below - Boat hook - Ensign staff

ACCOMMODATION AND DOMESTIC EQUIPMENT

Down 2 steps to engine box and one more to cabin sole - Varnished mahogany furniture - Teak and holly cabin sole - White painted deck head with varnished mahogany trim - Continuous grabrail moulded carlin - 2 x Deckhead lights - GPS plotter in small starboard locker along with isolator panel - Chart sideboard with holly marquetry compass rose/ to starboard; locker above, drawers under - Quarter berth to port; burgundy Brazilian leather cushion; locker under and stowage - 2 x Long burgundy Brazilian leather settees port and starboard - Burgundy Brazilian leather buttoned back rests - Stowage under and outboard - 4 x ports in trunk sides post and starboard - Butterfly skylight over saloon - 2 x Fiddled top sideboards port and starboard fwd - 2 x mounted bulkhead lights - Lavac manual toilet to starboard - Slatted forepeak sole - Half model at house forward

RIG, SPARS, SAILS AND CANVAS

Spruce mast; two sets spreaders plus diamonds - Topmast backstay added 2007 - 3 x Harken halyard winches - Bronze spinnaker pole track - Original bronze gooseneck - Spruce boom (2007) with 2 x bronze Harken 6 winches for outhaul and topping lift - Leathered oak boom crutch with deck padeyes offset to starboard Sails - Mainsail Light, North 2015 - Mainsail Heavy, North 2013 - Genoa Light, North 2015 - Genoa Medium, North 2016 - Genoa Heavy, North 2013 - Genoa 2, North 2013 - Genoa 3, Olympic 2012 - Genoa 4, Olympic 2012 - Spinnaker S2 Light Runner 0.5, North 2015 - Spinnaker S Zero 0.4, North 2013 - Spinnaker 0.75, UK 2010 - SPI Light Runner, Zaoli 2011 - Asymmetric 1, North 2013 - Asymmetric 2, North 2016 - Asymmetric 3, North 2013 - Asymmetric Zero, North 2013

MECHANICAL ELECTRICAL AND TANKAGE

- Nanni N3.30 29hp Diesel (2018) - 40 Litre Diesel tank under saloon sole - 2 x 12V 108Ah domestic batteries - 1 x 12V 108Ah engine start battery

NAVIGATION, COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS

- Silva steering compass - VHF handheld radio - Tacktick Racemaster tactical compass - Tacktick Mn100-2 wind (wireless) - Tacktick Mn 30 wind (wireless) - Garmin MNI 10 repeater display hub

- "U" lifebelt - Automatic bilge pump - Manual bilge pump in cockpit - EPIRB - Liferaft - Fire extinguisher

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- Main image: Guido Cantini - Other sailing images: James Robinson Taylor - Archive images: WoodenBoat magazine #185 - Hauled out: Facebook, Sailing and Motor Yachts

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This year, the Dragon class is 90. The story of the amazing “dragon” of history dedicated to material that was published in the September issue of magazine Yacht Russia.

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The history of the Dragon class began in 1928, when the owner of a small shipyard and already famous designer Johan Anker decided to take part in the competition of the Gothenburg Royal yacht club. The contest was required to submit the draft budget of the “youth” of the boat that would be comfortable to walk in the skerries and the fjords

Text Anton Shibaeva and Arthur Grokhovsky, with assistance from Fiona brown

Keel yacht with Bermuda weapons, presented by the Norwegian designer, was surprisingly graceful. Long fore and aft overhangs made it elegant and at the same time rapid. In a small cabin had two berths, without special comfort, but still allowed to indulge in Autonomous navigation. This project has been so successful that it became the winner of the competition. The first boat was built in 1929 at the shipyard Anker & Jensen.

The total length of the “Dragon” for the project was $ 8.9 m, but on the waterline all of 5.65 m, width 1.95 m, draft 1.2 m, cast iron ballast keel weighed 1000 kg. Originally the boats were small cabins, but they are “cabin” turned into a simple cabin shelter. First boat had a sail area of 20 m2, and spinnakers were not allowed until 1938, but since then the total area of the mainsail and Genoa has increased to nearly 28 m2. The mast at that time were made of wood, had one a couple of long graspic. In 1945, the mast was changed, there was upper pair of graspic and rombo guys.

About how the boat got its name “Dragon”, I bet to this day. Of the many versions of the most trusted two. The first is that Johan Anker gave the boat this name in honor of the Viking ships, the famous drukarov that ancient navigators were decorated with carved images of dragon heads. The second version claims that all the fault of the case. When the project entered the headquarters of the International Union of sailing (IYRU), which, as the headquarters of the current International sailing Federation (ISAF), was in England, the name Anker English translated as anchor – “anchor”, and in reverse translation into Norwegian “anchor” someone was recorded as a draggen. And then those English “corrected” draggen, turning it into a dragon. Thus, the name of the boat, and then the whole class yachts.

The ascent to the top

It so happened that the clubs Clyde has searched for a suitable boat to replace the large and expensive classes. Despite the lack of interest on the part of the Association of racing yachts and objections of the “old guard” (say, “in good old England can’t be boats of foreign design and foreign production”), j. Howden Hume and George Paisley announced that they have already bought “Dragon” named “Anita”, which and showed at the shipyard of MacGregor in Klindera.

By 1933, the yacht Johan Anker became popular not only in Scandinavia but also in Europe. Including they appeared in UK waters, which is considered a trendsetter in all that concerns the sails. In that year Mr. ball, a member of the Royal Clyde YC, traveled to Scandinavia, where he saw the “Dragon” and was so impressed with them that he had received the drawings and brought them home.

The first six British Dragon was built the same Makhtaaral who took them for 220 ft. article the success of the class in Scotland was stunning and, by 1936, Clyde was already 14 “Dragons”. There was the first of a series of international races, and the conference of yacht clubs of the Clyde in 1937, established the Golden Cup “the Dragon” which to this day remains the most coveted international trophy. Then the Dragon was recognized as an international class.

“Dragon” won the hearts of the yachtsmen not only in appearance but also ease of management, fast. This was a born racer, therefore there is nothing surprising in the fact that in the end the boat got rid of the profession “skerry cruiser”. She was just doomed to participate in regattas, sharp wrestling and to become a monotype.

In 1946, V. M. Mackinlay, the Secretary of the conference of yacht clubs of the Clyde, visited Norway and learned from his son Johan Anker, Erik following. Before his death his father had insisted that in recognition of the fact that the British Navy did for Norway during the war, no British Builder “Dragons” do not have to pay design royalties.

Since 1947 shipyard for the construction of “Dragons” opened in France. In 1948, in a fair competition “Dragon” replaced the more costly 6-, 8 – and 12-Mitrovici with the Olympic waters, having received the status of Olympic class.

After 1948, “Dragon” has participated in six Olympic games, after which he was replaced by the Soling. Then many have decided that the popularity of the class instantly falls, and he gradually die. This did not happen, and now many yachtsmen believe that this class is generally better to be outside the focus of attention and fierce competition for those fighting for Olympic medals. Sailors-drakonita enough awards without them.

International Association “Dragons” (IDA) have always been vision and in 1957 was allowed to use synthetic sail cloth, and in 1971 the metal stringers. Meanwhile, Berg Borresen, winner of the Gold Cup 1967, in collaboration with Lloyds Register of shipping has developed a specification, which in 1972 was “legalized” and became the basis for the even more fateful decision – the construction of the “Dragons” made of fiberglass. The rules demanded that the boat was entirely built of plastic. However, it later became clear that many owners prefer the idea of easily maintained hull combined with attractive wooden deck and superstructure, and the rules have been amended accordingly. What has remained unchanged – the all-new “Dragons” to pass the test inclining test to prove that the construction was carried out in accordance with the specification. But what old wooden boats? Not all of them were scrapped in the scrap, many sailors continue to care and cherish, and sometimes win them the prestigious competition. Such is the power of beauty.

“Dragon” in the Soviet Union

The first “Dragons” appeared in the USSR in the early 1950-ies. The country was intended to enter the arena and defeat her. Of course, on the sail too. Therefore, attention to “Dragon” as one of the most popular classes of yachts, it was understandable.

Appearing in the Union, the boat caused real furor. Her perfect body, light trim by the stern, a little overwhelmed mast is delighted. Loved literally everything! A special appeal to sailors found even in the inscription of the Latin letter D on the grotto, which after the number of the ship was complemented by the letters SR (Soviet Russia).

Already in 1952, it established its own production of “Dragons” and after a few years the yachts of this class became the basis of the fleet of many yacht clubs. Over 20 years in the USSR were built more than 1000 “Dragons”, and they were all in demand. Even when the boat was finished “athletic” career, it’s not meant her sailing life ended. “Dragons” was altered to “cruiser”, and natural seaworthiness allows these yachts to successfully cope with their new role. And remember – Johan Anker conceived the “Dragon” it is like a skerry cruiser.

The class has evolved steadily and successfully until 1972, when “Dragon” was removed from the Olympic games. The construction of the “Dragons” in the USSR was immediately discontinued. Prospective riders move on “perspective”, that is the Olympic classes. Sports management has ceased to support the organization of racing the non-Olympic class. At the yacht club blazed the fires of the Dragons. Where the hand does not rise to burn this beauty, boats were left to rot in the rain and snow.

Fortunately, not all “Dragons” were to suffer the same sad fate. Sailors liked these yachts to so simply and fearlessly to part with them. And yet many thought that the class was doomed, that the revival is impossible. They were wrong.

The revival in Russia

By the beginning of 2000-ies of the boat, ready to go out on the water were one. To prevent the death of the “Dragon” as a class came from enthusiasts Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Sergei Ivanov (Director of the Moscow yacht-club “Neptune”) and Sergey Bogdanov (photographer and designer) to assemble the fleet and continue to chase the “Dragons” was organized by the Moscow “Dragon club”. Twenty-first of may 2003, held its first meeting. The year before, began the project to restore miraculously surviving old buildings, and renovated in the summer of the first “Dragon” can be seen on championship of Moscow on Pestovskoe reservoir. In 2003, was completed on the second case, and, characteristically, yachts are not just repaired, they are returned to their original look, the former beauty of lacquered wood.

At the start of the first championship of Russia in a class “the Dragon”, held in 2003, there were five yachts. Then everything was on the rise. After five years, the fleet of “Dragons” consisted of more than fifty yachts, the Championships became an annual event, the Association was established. This was made possible thanks to the sailors of the yacht club “Pirogovo” Alexander Ikovo, Arnold Sternberg, Anatoly Karachinsky enthusiasts also obsessed with the dream to revive the Dragon class in Russia.

Muscovites supported the St. Petersburg yachtsmen. In 2006, Igor Frolov, Sergey Jazykovym and Vladimir Loginov was created by the West shipyard Project. For the construction of boats from a British shipyard Petticrows was acquired by the matrix Dragon. By 2013 the shipyard was built seven yachts that now make up the backbone of the modern Navy the “Dragons” of St. Petersburg.

Today overseas sailors from Germany, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Ukraine and even Hong Kong come to Russia to our water to converge in a fight with the Russians. In turn, the Russian draconity participate in all the major international regattas, as formidable rivals in foreign yachtsmen and consistent favorites of the competition.

In any areas are increasingly sailing close to the traditional letter D you can see the letters RU. And it’s not revival, that’s life.

“Dragon” today

Since 1990, the world’s Dragons ‘ undisputed leader was the shipyard Petticrows under the direction of Paul-Ricarda hoy Jensen. Since the founding of the shipyards in 1988, it was released almost 800 boats, and recently the number of yachts built by Petticrows shipyard exceeded Børresen.

It should be noted that in 1990-x years the yacht has undergone a number of changes (in particular, have changed the wiring gear), carried out under the close supervision of the Technical Committee of the IDA. It was a difficult time when EU regulations required buoyancy improvements for all pleasure craft.

Along with the development of new boats guide IDA has actively implemented a strategy to support national associations in marketing and promoting new countries to increase the fleet of Dragon class. This carefully selected venues for regattas, was also improved control of the race with the introduction of the regulations of the championship, which was the starting point for the development of many other classes. And the result is obvious: on the major Championships going more than 75 boats.

In the new Millennium the most striking event was the 75th anniversary of the class. In 2004, on the French Riviera gathered 275 “Dragons”. All the big names of the sailing world consider it an honor to arrive in Saint-Tropez. All sailors, celebrated their participation in the race, the anniversary of the “Dragon”, still talking about this event, and best of all it says on the start line with a length of over 2.5 km!

Today Petticrows (now shipyard in the ownership of Tim Tavinor, one of the most successful builders of boats of the Olympic class) has attracted designers of America’s Cup to improve the shape of the hull. What is the evidence? The constant effort to improve the boat that is balanced by the mandate of the IDA to control development, which ultimately does not lead to an immediate obsolescence of the previous models.

This is the key to the success of the “Dragon” today: although he was 90 years old, he is still developing.

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