Nordic Folkboat
The Nordic Folkeboot is a small, simple but seaworthy sailboat, specially designed for the Baltic Sea. It can accommodate a crew of two to four people and is suitable for cruising as well as for sporting regattas.
In Sweden, the Folkeboot will also sailed with a spinnaker, but what influences the life and rigidity of the wooden poles negative. So here is a gennaker is often used.
Method of construction
The Folkeboot is a long keel with an attached rudder and stern - Plattgatt. It has the typical wooden boats S- frame form.
The classic Folkeboot hull is made of wood and clinkered. Originally native woods were used only in Scandinavia, meanwhile, is also typical in the marine mahogany use. Since 1976, also made of GRP hulls are manufactured, even in boats made of fiberglass, however, the class typical clinker planking is mapped.
For Folkeboot consulted in accordance with the Class Rules glued a wooden pole, only since 2001 aluminum poles are allowed.
History
Template for the Folkeboot posts were a competition of the Royal Society sail to Gothenburg from 1939, whose aim has been as gesamtskandinavische unit class, the development of an inexpensive, baltic suitable boat. The new boat should accommodate three to four people and have to build as cheaply as possible in order to make it accessible to a wide audience of owners can.
None of the suggestions could persuade. After the four best proposals designed Torden Sundén the prototype of a new device class that was baptized in the spring of 1942 in the name Folkeboot.
The boat broke completely with the first marked by luxury racing yachts tastes. The high for that time freeboard and the sheer balancing high coaming did not conform to contemporary tastes. The Plattgattheck with attached rudder was a clear visual contrast to the elegant overhanging classic yacht stern.
However, the excellent sailing characteristics of the boat Folke and safety in the deep cockpit even with significant position convinced the same as the price of 3,500 crowns. The first large series of 60 built boats was already sold out through pre-orders.
The Folkeboot served as a template for various reconstructions and modifications that would make the boat more elegant or comfortable. In some copies the clinker planking was replaced by a Karweelverband, for example in the reconstruction of the Potsdamer Buchholz shipyard, which was shown in 1964 for the first time in West Germany and came up with a " cut price " of 19,400 DM.
While hull and cabin were originally built almost entirely of native woods, gained over time mahogany and teak in importance - especially as material for bodies and conversions. Since 1976 Folkboats be built in plastic, the first GRP hulls were produced by the Danish company LM Glass Fiber. For substantial promoters of this Folkboats plastic was Erik Andreasen from Kerteminde in Denmark. Its fast Folkeboot Tibbe convinced the critics ( Andreasen bought " Tibbe " by Thorkild Lind, thus won twice the " Gold Cup " and went with it a name before he implemented the idea of the CSF - Folkes into action ). By 1996 LM glass fiber delivered 850 Folkeboot hulls and then stopped production in favor of wind turbines. In 1997, Erik Andreasen in Estonia his own production company Folkeboat Baltic Ltd.. for GRP Folkboats. In 2004, he was able to deliver the thousandth Folkeboot GRP. The plastic Folke boats weight and weight distribution and shape of the wooden boats have to be respected. Plastic and wooden boats sailing today directly and vergütungslos on racing against each other.
As a further development of the Folkestone boat in 1966 also presented by International Folkeboot healthy, more comfortable and revised version of the Folkestone boat can be considered, which differs mainly by the smooth skin of his role model. The use of the name International Folkeboot was healthy judicially allowed, since the boat in Sweden, and later in Denmark, was logged only as a national class. The reference in the name of an international class was misleading and not permitted. Therefore, the class of boat is called simple IF - boat today.
Since 1994 Folkboats be built in Denmark that have no cabin. As the material of the hull GRP is used exclusively. These open Folkboats or F- boats are usually used because of the good sailing qualities of the Folkestone Boat for training purposes. Her hull is the original form, the Folkeboot Typical clinker planking was shown here in the fiberglass hull.
Folkboats are now being built in Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Great Britain and the United States. After the hitherto leading manufacturers who, goodbye Folkeboot centralen in Kerteminde with hull production in Parnu, Estonia from the store with the sailboat, this division has taken a German investor, and the Folkeboot centralen moved to Hamburg. Erik Schneider is the new contact shipyard Polar Shipyard Estonia and the Folkboat Central FBC GmbH.
Class Association
Class associations for Folkboats come in all Scandinavian countries, Great Britain, the Netherlands, the United States, Canada and Germany. Regattas are held regularly. Folkeboot races are part of major racing events, including the San Francisco International Cup, the Sessan Cup, the Kieler Woche or the Travemünde Week. The most important regatta of Folkeboot class is the unofficial World Championship, the Gold Cup, which is held alternately in Danish, Swedish and German waters. The largest contiguous Folkeboot fleet in the world is based in Berlin.
The sail sign for boats Folkeboot class is an F.
In 2006, the first time a junior training for interested sailors from other classes was carried out with support of the German Folkeboot Association, the age limit was set at 40 years for this.