The Boats
Traditional wooden sailing craft

Born 1973 in the German port city of Hamburg, I've always been passionate about ships and wooden sailing boats in particular. 

To me, sailing is not so much a competitive sport, and rather the connection to nature and its laws. As engineer I might be fascinated by the carbon foiling monsters of the America’s cup. But my true passion were always the working boats made of wood, and built for seaworthiness and for blue water cruising. I love their aesthetics, their evolutionary development over many centuries to end up with timeless beauty, ruggedness and proven utility.

2 types stand out. Many true boat enthusiast might know these ancestors of the modern cruising yachts:

 

1. The Colin Archer type rescue boats

2. The Bristol Channel Pilot cutters

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Today, I own and sail Gaviria II, a 30 foot Tahiti Ketch, which is a 1923 scaled down version of the Colin Archer type. 
I am also member of the association for Madcap 1874, the oldest Bristol Channel Pilot cutter still afloat.