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[servus]

Hello to everybody and thanks for permitting me here.
I have been lurking in the past and joined now to be able to ask and answer.
My boat is a 1989 steel hulled, Koopmans designed, Dutch made 39 1/2 "slutter".
Don't want to bore you guys with my personal details.... started young as dinghy sailor, chartered with sporty crews and not so fast ones, took a longish break from sailing, some while ago bought my boat by coincidence.
More later,
Fair winds to all, G.

[jeanathon]

Welcome aforum.

[servus]

Thank you sincerely, jeanathon,
Sweet boat that one which you show as your avatar (if that is the correct word for the introductory pic).
Mine is a longkeeler too and a bit underused.

Cheers, g.

[Pete7]

Originally Posted by servus

Hello to everybody and thanks for permitting me here.
I have been lurking in the past and joined now to be able to ask and answer.
My boat is a 1989 steel hulled, Koopmans designed, Dutch made 39 1/2 "slutter".
Don't want to bore you guys with my personal details.... started young as dinghy sailor, chartered with sporty crews and not so fast ones, took a longish break from sailing, some while ago bought my boat by coincidence.
More later,
Fair winds to all, G.

Welcoe That's different from the normal European Bavaria, Beneteau or Jeanneau yachts. Do you have any pictures?

[servus]

Hello Pete7,
Thanks for your interest. Yes she is bit different. Like a UK yachtie put it, looking at the hull on the dry, the rig, the cockpit and the deck layout: "...nice boat you have there, bad good-weather-boat, good bad-weather-boat."
The concept is actually based on the conservative principles of seakindlyness and what have you.

I do have very few pictures because when on the water I am mostly on my own.
I will have to find out how to put photographs on this medium.
This might sound a bit retarded, but I am not at all good with any sort of electronic gadgeds.
If I have a pic on my smartphone - yes, I do have one - I have to ask how to transfer it to the computer. Reformatting a photo so that it fits here is a serious enterprise for me. I guess, I just lack the digital gene in my little spiral....

But I will make some efforts.

Cheers, g.

[jeanathon]

Servus, The camera angle on my avatar picture makes it look like a long keel, but it is actually a fin albeit shoal keel with spade rudder. Minimal wetted surface and she would sail with just a breath of air, but stiff and went to weather like she was on rails. I regret selling that boat. Hull #7 C@C Redwing 30.
Re: Pictures. You could just get the cruisersforum app on that smart phone, and upload the pics from the phone to the forum. I believe you have to have a couple more posts before you can upload.

[servus]

Hello Jeanathon,
Whatever the keel and rudder configuration, if she sails well she does so. Various concepts have various advantages.

Thanks for the hint with the app. I will look at that.
It is all not rocket science. I just get annoyed when I have to become familiar with a menue to do something that is the equivalent of turning a page, setting an aperture aso. I will - eventually - better myself.

Cheers, g

[JPA Cate]

Welcome aboard CF from me, too. I, too, am pretty hopeless electronically speaking. You are not alone!

Here's a link about posting images here, hope it helps:
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...st-133457.html

We've a friend with a 40 ft. aluminium Kloopman's cutter: Susanne Cuber-Hurphy, an absolutely super sailor.

Fair winds, mate.

Ann & Jim

[Don C L]

Welcome aboard servus!

[jeanathon]

Servus,
I hear you... I do not have a smart phone. In fact when flip phones got "smart" I went to a bar phone that cannot be hacked because there is nothing to hack. Do it your way, and F the corporations!

[servus]

Originally Posted by JPA Cate

Welcome aboard CF from me, too. I, too, am pretty hopeless electronically speaking. You are not alone!

Here's a link about posting images here, hope it helps:
https://www.cruisersforum.com/forums...st-133457.html

We've a friend with a 40 ft. aluminium Kloopman's cutter: Susanne Cuber-Hurphy, an absolutely super sailor.

Fair winds, mate.

Ann & Jim

Thanks for the lead and the welcome. I do appreciate.

My boat is a steel hulled, Koopmans designed "Hutting 40", named "SERVUS".
Will post some pics once I have mastered the technology.

Cheers, G.

[servus]

Originally Posted by Don C L

Welcome aboard servus!

Thanks, Much appreciated.

Cheers, G.

[servus]

Originally Posted by jeanathon

Servus,
I hear you... I do not have a smart phone. In fact when flip phones got "smart" I went to a bar phone that cannot be hacked because there is nothing to hack. Do it your way, and F the corporations!

Jeanathon, exactly my feelings. capital F.

Cheers, G.

[Adelie]

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