Tumlare

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 Tumlare 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]

Tumlare
Development
DesignerKnud Reimers
NameTumlare
Boat
Draft1.30 m (4.3 ft)
Hull
LOA8.30 m (27.2 ft)
LWL6.65 m (21.8 ft)
Beam1.95 m (6.4 ft)
Rig
Sails
Total sail area20 m2 (220 sq ft)

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. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
  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. Vanessa Bird. Classic Classes. p. 150.
  4. "Startsidan/Home - Reimers Tumlaren". Reimers Tumlaren. Archived from the original on 2013-10-04.
  5. "TUMLAREN sailboat specifications and details on sailboatdata.com". sailboatdata.com. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
  6. "Tumlare Owners Group". tumlare.org.uk. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
  7. "HOME - Classic Boat Classes: Tumlaren". classicboatclasses.co.uk. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
  8. "Saint Bonaventure - Hocco (1934) - Atelier des Voiles d'Antan du Léman (AVAL)". Atelier des Voiles d'Antan du Léman (AVAL). Retrieved 4 February 2018.
  9. "Celeste - Wooden Boat". woodenboat.com.au. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
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