Around my 50th Birthday I came up with the idea to build a boat. I was thinking of a sailing boat, a nice yacht, not too small - about 10 to 12 meter long. I then began to look into books and studied among others the book "Yachtbau" by Kurt Reinke. The book should be a technical book. It contains much valuable information and I learned a lot from it. But the book is at times also unobjective and even polemical. The reader quickly realize that Kurt Reinke was not a gifted writer but a yacht designer - a self-convinced yacht designer!
His messages are:
- Forget the self-construction of your sailing yacht. Rely on special adapted do-it-yourself constructions of experienced designers.
- A sailing yacht must be made of steel or aluminum and come with ASY-twin-keels.
- A seagoing yacht should not be insubmersibel.
