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PESA, International 10 m
A masterpiece from Max Oertz
PESA fully restored, racing at Brest 1996
GUY RIBADEAU DUMAS
PESA belongs to the 1906 rule
just as CINTRA and TUIGA do in
the 12 and 15 m classes. After
1920, as the rule changed, the
new designs were bigger and
heavier for the same rating. In
a short period, from 1906 to
1914, a lot of metre boats were
built. The 10 m had less activity
than the 8 m, where there were
55 new constructions. In
France, we had five 10 metres
built. It was an Olympic class
and succeeded the 10 tonners
defending "Coupe de France".
The 10 m were different with a
bit more comfort than in any
other class. On WESTA II, Sven
Westerberg had ten berths for
his large family, when the rule
required four. My father had a
10 m and his five sons made up
on average a 15 year-old crew.
The 12 m was considered as
the smallest class with sufficient
accommodation for an ow-
KLASSISKE LINJER NR.10 MAI 1999
ner with crew. But the 10 m
with half displacement was the
maximum size suitable for a family
boat. It was not an ocean
racer with such a low free
board and only pumps draining
the cockpit. Nevertheless, the
Consul of Norway sailed Noreg
right down to Nantes in 1910.
PESA belonged to the German
fleet and raced in Kiel,
Travemünde and Glucksburg.
She raced with Scandinavian
and Russian 10 m competitors.
The name takes the first letters
of the owners von Petri and
Sack. PESA had many owners
and was renamed GUDRUN, GI-
SELA, ODIN, and RAJA V when
the last owner came back to
the original name in 1996. She
is the last and 16th ten meter
designed and built by Max
Oertz from 1906 to 1911.
PESA is a sistership of FEINS-
LIEBCHEN VII with a few modifications
on the keel shape and
deck plan. In 1911 she was
first two times out of three at
Flensburg. The Kielerwoche results
were two first places and
two second. PESA was the best
10 m in the last prewar race :
the 1914 Kielerwoche.
In 1919, Henry Kettle found her
in a shed and sailed her to the
Elbe river, but there was no
more racing and he realized
that a big ketch would be more
suitable for the North Sea. PESA
then returned to the Baltic, but
the German fleet had been disbanded.
FEINSLIEBCHEN VII
went to Holland, ORCHIS to
Great Britain ...
Then PESA took the name of
two owner wives: Gudrun and
Gisela. As ODIN she suffered as
a houseboat in the thirties. She
survived World War II in a shed
at Neustad Holstein. In 1949,
she was still there.
In 1958, Wilhelm Perschmidt
bought her and ordered many
modifications at the Oelhmann
boatyard to make her into a
modern ocean racer with a
marconi ketch rig. Under the
number G 1014, she raced
again in Travemünde and in the
Nordsee Woche.
In 1979, PESA arrived in
France and a second teak deck
was built over the original. All
her old rusty iron frames were
changed to stainless steel.
Max Oertz, the famous German
Max Oertz