German Dinghy Identification - Berlin 1948

[Ed]

Anybody got any ideas on this one?

Taken in Berlin in 1948:

Alan & Molly Berlin 1948-small.jpg

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Note Molly is wearing what looks like some kind of trapeze harness, with wires on the boat.

1st suggestion would be a Korsar - round bottomed, 5m and uses trapeze.

Thought of the Pirat, but that is hard chine I think. What other possibilities?

cheers

eib

[davidh]

Ed...already replied to this is a PM..... my guess too was a Korsar, possibly a Pirat.

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[Brookesy]

Looks like an early FD to me.
But now I come back to it again the freeboard area is too full, so not sure...

[Rupert]

But then the people would be really big?!

Korsar pics here

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ ... 8dinghy%29

But it looks wider to me. Deck layout changes could cause that illusion, though?

[Michael Brigg]

Berlin Jollen,



Or perhaps a "Wanderjollen"



But a wiser owl than me has told me it is an early FD.

[Ed]

Brooksy got it in one!

Apparently it is Mckinny and Emma Moller in an early FD from 1954.

Apparently our cages were rattled unnecessarily....an April Fool's.

eib

[neil]

and I thought this was an April Fool's joke

http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news/Ma ... ticle.html

Nice to see it in the Westcountry

[Rupert]

Good to see that whatever muppet pulled the picture out of the photo library hadn't actually read the article, and just saw a sail with America's Cup on it!

[Nessa]

I grew up in Berlin in the mid sixties and I used to love our family picnics by the lake where we would watch people sailing....I blame them for my current obsession.