After editing the post with Bavaria and Southerly yachts, a few days before, I have promoted the article a bit, and I received more or less indirectly some comments, like: "Nothing compares with a Swan or a Hallborg Rassy, they are expensive but you may throw any storm on them and have still a good day"[sic], in facing Bavaria yachts, considered in America "cheap Euro trash"[sic]. I don't comment a lot on this, there were opinions of Bavaria being actually good for the budget. I can't say that. I think they're not cheap, but you don't think I'm gonna promote what comes next, the mentioned "Swan", more precisely, Oy Nautor Ab founded in 1966 by Pekka Koskenkylä, in Finland, whose intention was to build the first yacht over 10 meters in history, capable both of cruising and racing. And so the story begins about Nautor's Swan, a company with quite a visited site (see the link). The pictures, the specs and almost all the info presented below, are borrowed from their site. I'm not going to show here all the pics, they have a very nice and almost exhaustive catalog on the site, I'll just present a few models from the rich spectrum. The company evolved fantastically after the sixties, German Frers has been put in charge with the design. Through the eighties, Nautor held … [Read more...]
