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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,
almost exposing the rudder, to lower the waterline length which compensated the "d" penalty. Two key opposing concepts in sailboat design are wetted surface and hull speed In light winds, one wants a minimum of wetted surface. For stronger winds, when the boat reaches full speed, it reaches a limit based on its waterline length (its hull speed). The longer the waterline length, the faster the hull speed. Drewitz designed such a light boat that, if the crew moved forward, the boat tilted forward and its wetted surface was reduced and, if it moved aft, the boat tilted aft, extending its waterline length. It was a remarkable concept for the period. It is now common practice for certain modern racing yachts. Apparently, Collignon rejected the concept after the boat was built. To make her float "normally, he had 120 kg. of the forward part of the ballast moved aft in the form of forty 3 kg. lead ingots, thereby also rendering her rating so that she was no longer a Six. Photo of Michel Selig before launching. The caption in German explains Drewitz's concept of shifting the crew's weight forward and aft, but the boat had already been "adjusted" by Collignon to give it a
Page 1 and 2: Construction of the classic Six Met
Page 3 and 4: a. Slaloming through the knots 26 b
Page 5 and 6: d = a measurement of how much the h
Page 7: As a sop, the conference included a
Page 11 and 12: Michel Selig, then named K 75 Joann
Page 13 and 14: Shored up with movable props After
Page 15 and 16: Establishing reference verticals at
Page 17 and 18: waterlines on a profile view, thus
Page 19 and 20: Holes of rotten wood where the floo
Page 21 and 22: Ribbands of Nirvana - the vertical
Page 23 and 24: Lofting platform for laying off the
Page 25 and 26: Cardinal II, built by the author at
Page 27 and 28: I wanted a light wood which would b
Page 29 and 30: The photos below show the cumulativ
Page 31 and 32: the sternpost c. Drawing station li
Page 33 and 34: emove the drill from the bit. Norma
Page 35 and 36: Gluing the forward part of two half
Page 37 and 38: Aft view of two pairs of half lifts
Page 39 and 40: The use of bridges on the inside of

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