Yacht Horizonte close up.
Horizonte under mizzen,main and spinnaker
Horizonte on the wind
A chap named Bogdan contacted me some time back,having seen the Astra restoration job done here,he wanted to know if I was interested in a restoration job for himself?He had approached a number of brokers,put out his request for suitable older style wooden yachts and came up with some quite remarkable designs,this was one such offer,its a design by Frers senior,built and raced in Argentina I am sure you will agree its a very nice boat.
Words taken from a book by Barry Pickthal, Passion for Design.
unashamedly to fuel the desire to own - or to dream of owning - a beautiful boat. The yacht design heritage spans three generations of the name German whose designs have generated more than 10,000 boats, from dinghies to day-sailors; distinctive cruisers and racers, to power boats and superyachts.
During the origins of the yard in the 1950's and 1960's good yacht design as practiced by the master - German Frers senior - was largely intuitive. Today those traditional skills remain and are mixed with the precise demands of structural analysis, aerodynamics and hi-tech engineering.
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