160817 Peter Shepherd combined toc & text

and fell in love with the class. I then decided to look for a
wreck of a Six, which I soon found in Cornwall, which I could
restore in our garden in Saint-Tropez. She was K 75 Joanna, ex-
G 24 Michel Selig and Avalun VIII.
D. Michel Selig
1. History
Michel Selig at the Ocean Yacht Co. boatyard in
Cornwall at the time of purchase
First her name: G 24 Michel Selig, G 24 being her sail
number.. It remains an unknown. Literally, it means
Michael the Blessed. No German speaker I've met has
come up with an explanation.
She was commissioned by Hans Collignon, a prosperous
printer and active yachtsman who sailed on the Wannsee, a
lake on the outskirts of Berlin. He intended to enter her in
the June 1936 German elimination trials for the upcoming
Olympic Games, whose sailing activities were located at
Kiel, just to the east of Denmark.
For some unknown reason, he commissioned Reinhard
Drewitz, probably the world's best designer of sailing
dinghies of the period, as architect. Drewitz must have told
Colllignon that he was no match for successful 6mR
architects like Anker, etc. (see above). He may have
convinced Collignon to make a bet on the weather.
The Berlin boatyard of Wilhelm Buchholz built her. She is
the only Berlin built Six.
In June, the weather in Kiel is usually quite windy. There is
a 10% chance that the Scandinavian high will descend to
Kiel bringing calm breezes. Drewitz may have said that he
could design a Six optimized for low wind speeds and thus
perhaps faster than the other Sixes with their general
purpose all weather design.
His design was a Six that resembled a centreboard sailing
dinghy. In the formula of the International Rule above, the
variable "d" corresponds to a penalty for having a wineglass
shaped cross section, rather than a rounded one. Drewitz's
centreboard shape resulted in a severe penalty. To
compensate for it, he designed the boat to float bow down,