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T&T - News"Vision" boat portrait

Fridtjof Gunkel

 · 20.12.2005

T&T - News: "Vision" boat portraitPhoto: YACHT
Stöberl's new one should be the ship of the future

Designer Helmuth Stöberl is very modest: "The Vision should go higher into the wind than any other ship." And this with a draught of just 1.10 metres and a length of 12.50 metres. His latest creation is unique thanks to its seven partially adjustable underwater appendages.

The two fins of the tandem chimney keels can be turned on, which should generate fabulous cruising characteristics. Other features of the vessel, which resembles a Libera: Double rudder system, canard centreboard in the forecastle, shroud ears on the hull and rotating wing mast.

Vision or reality? We tried it out and were on board for the first test drives.

You can read about it in the new YACHT 1/06 (on newsstands from 21 December).
The boat can be seen at boot Düsseldorf (Hall 17, Stand C 55).

www.stoeberl-sailing.de

Fridtjof Gunkel

Fridtjof Gunkel

Deputy Chief Editor YACHT

Fridtjof Gunkel was born on Helgoland in 1962; he started his sailing career there in the Opti and quickly switched to keelboats. North Sea Week, Cowes Week and Kiel Week were early stops, followed by many years in the Admiral's Cup scene on the cuppers “Container” and “Rubin” World Championships and international regattas in the Starboat, with the mini-maxi “SiSiSi” and various tonner yachts as well as participation in the Whitbread Round the World Race were further formative stations, flanked by extensive cruising trips. Fridtjof Gunkel joined YACHT back in 1985 as part of a traineeship, where he later became Head of the Test & Technology department and then Deputy Editor-in-Chief around 25 years ago. He is also responsible for the regatta and sports section. Fridtjof Gunkel privately sails a performance/cruiser moored on the Baltic coast, his favorite areas are the eastern Swedish archipelago and Brittany.

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