Ketch · Germany
Alvekongen
A Colin Archer type of 1979 built to an 1898 design. She has sailed as far as Trondheim.
Technical data
- Rig
- Ketch
- Flag
- Germany
- Home port
- Berlin
- Built
- 1979
- Shipyard
- Peter Bieritz, Friedrichskoog, GER
- Hull material
- Wood
- Length
- 17.5 m
- Beam
- 3.75 m
- Sail area
- 120 m²
- Sailing area
- North Sea and Baltic
Built at Peter Bieritz's yard in Friedrichskoog to the drawings of the cutter-rigged yacht Nana, designed by Colin Archer in 1898. The Oslo maritime museum supplied the plans, which were redrawn, and the rig was worked out by the owners after Colin Archer's rescue ketches. The interior was fitted out by hand over winters in Berlin.
She is used entirely privately. Her voyages so far have taken her to Trondheim in Norway, to Scotland and the Shetlands, through the English Channel to Brest, and in the Baltic to Tallinn and the Finnish Åland Islands.