Nordic Folkboat

Some history

The Nordic Folkboat filled 50 years a while ago! It was born as a result of a Scandinavian planning competition, and the results were published in 1941. There were 59 participiants, and no first prize was given. An swedish engineer, Tord Sunden, then was given the work to combine the two second prize takers to a final design. Nowadays there are perhaps 4000 folkboats sailing in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Britain and USA.

Measures

• length 7.64 m (25 ft)
• width 2.2 m
• displacement 1960 kg
• depth 1.2 m
• length of waterline 6.0 m
• keel weight 1000 kg
• sail area 25.4 sq. m
• mast height 10.5 m
• wet surface 17.5 sq. m

Pictures

This a new boat from Sandell & Mäntymäki, exactly like mine. The photo is probably from the '60s.

As you can see, the grounding capabilities of this boat are good... To be sure I test about once a summer :) The long keel also makes it very nice to steer, it keeps it's direction well.

3 july 1998