This is true love - more important to the owner of the V 25 than the purchase price is that someone is found who will not only take the boat, but also maintain it professionally and sail it. He writes about his historic dinghy:
"The boat was built between 1933 and 1935 by a boat builder on the Steinhuder Meer. He enlarged a racing H dinghy for the crack. Hull 8.0 m, therefore renamed from W dinghy (dinghies with more than 30 square metres of sail area) to V. The ship has been in our possession for 30 years, it was completely renovated from 1990 to 1994 - 90 frames, floor poles in the open area, 2 bulkheads installed, new floor boards, new profile rudder blade, V4A centreboard, new mainsail with old batten guide, traveller installed, etc. We would be delighted if someone would finish it and sail it again!"
Dimensions of the V 25
Length 8.00 m
Width 2.48 m
Draught with centreboard 1.3 m
Weight 0.5 tonnes (hull), ready to sail 0.75 tonnes
Mainsail 26 square metres
Genoa 12 sqm
All dimensions without guarantee
V-dinghies - a rarity with history
The Hamburg shipbuilder Hein Garbers, who later became a well-known designer, ran a yacht shipyard and sailed across the ocean in the service of the Abwehr agents during the war, built himself an eight-metre-long, completely over-rigged dinghy in 1929, which he marked with the sail mark V2 - why is still a mystery today. However, several Hamburg sailors followed his example. The only requirement for such a "V dinghy" was a hull length of exactly eight metres.
You can read the entire history of the V-dinghy in our special edition YACHT classic, issue 2/2019, which you can download here. reorder here free of shipping costs can.
