Engineering:Ohlson 38
The Ohlson 38 is a 38-foot (12 m) cruiser racer sailing yacht designed by Swedish naval architect Einar Ohlson.[1] About 128 of these boats have been built at various boat yards in Europe.[1] The Ohlson 38 is known for its speed, which has been proven in a number of races.[2]
In 1967 the Ohlson 38 was created by Swedish designer Einar Ohlson. It was an extended version of his 36-footer[1] Einar Ohlson was a well-known 5.5 M boat designer in the 1960s like[1] Bill Luders, Ray Hunt or Britton Chance, Jr. His boats are still raced today as classics within the 5.5 M race circuit.[3]
The Ohlson 38 was GRP-produced, in contrast to the 36s, which were built from wood.[1] The GRP hulls for the Ohlson 38 were laminated by the Tyler Boat Company Ltd.[4] in Tonbridge, Kent in the United Kingdom and so were decks including the coachroof. The Ohlson Brothers (Bröderna Ohlson AB) in Västra Frolunda near Gothenburg finished boats primarily for the US market.[1] Other yards finished these boats, including Malö in Henån, Matthiessen und Paulsen in Arnis/Germany, and Alexander Robertsons & Sons in Sandbank, Argyll, Scotland.
Einar Ohlson’s work has been recognized by The Encyclopedia of Yacht Designers.[5]
The Ohlson 38 is an ocean-going cruiser, and many extended voyages have been made with these boats, including Clare Francis's Observer Single-handed Trans-Atlantic Race with 'Robertson's Golly',[6] a woman's world-record transatlantic crossing speed record.[7] and other voyages have been written about by Richard "Jud" Henderson,[8] and Johanna Michaelis and Klaus Nölters with their circumnavigation on Ole Hoop.[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Henderson, Richard 'Jud' (1979). Choice Yacht Designs. Camden, MA: International Marine Publishing Company. pp. 239. ISBN 0-87742-112-9. https://archive.org/details/choiceyachtdesig00hend/page/239.
- ↑
- "OHLSON 38 sailboat specifications and details on". Sailboatdata.com. http://sailboatdata.com/viewrecord.asp?class_id=1817. Retrieved 2013-03-16.
- Yachting. August 1980. pp. 57–. https://books.google.com/books?id=hsN199QM-7MC&pg=PA57.
- San Diego Magazine. San Diego Magazine Publishing Company. May 1972. https://books.google.com/books?id=BQgkAQAAIAAJ.
- Sea and Pacific Motor Boat. Sea Publications. 1972. p. 56. https://books.google.com/books?id=kO61AAAAIAAJ.
- ↑ "Sailboat designs of Einar Ohlson by year". Sailboatdata.com. http://sailboatdata.com/view_designer.asp?designer_id=179. Retrieved 2013-03-16.
- ↑ "Sailboats built by Tyler Boat Co. Ltd. (UK) by year on". Sailboatdata.com. http://sailboatdata.com/view_builder.asp?builder_id=174. Retrieved 2013-03-16.
- ↑ Sol Knight & Mac Naughton, Lucia del & Danoel B (2006). The Encyclopedia of Yacht Designers. New York, NY: W.W. Norton Company. pp. 530. ISBN 0-393-04876-4. http://www.eyd.net.
- ↑ Jennifer S. Uglow; Frances Hinton; Maggy Hendry (1999). The Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography. UPNE. pp. 210–. ISBN 978-1-55553-421-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=zlQKDvU1WV0C&pg=PA210.
- ↑ Clare Francis, Come hell or high water, Pelham Books, London, 1977, Richard "Jud" Henderson with his Atlantic cruise on 'Kelpie'
- ↑ East to the Azores, International Marine Publishing Company Camden MA, 1978
- ↑ Johanna Michaelis & Michael Nölters Der erfüllbare Traum, Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld, 2002
- Dick Durham (17 August 2011). Amazing Sailing Stories: True Adventures from the High Seas. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 146–. ISBN 978-1-119-95262-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=Zn08nyG2d5IC&pg=PT146.
External links
- "Drawings & Plans". Ohlson38.de. http://www.ohlson38.de/Ohlson38%20Documnets/Ohlson38%20Plans/Ohlson38.plans.html. Retrieved 2013-03-16.
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohlson 38.
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