Sailing Yacht Peter
History
Conception & Launch
Finnish naval architect Jarl Lindblom drew PETER with the same long, fine ends and narrow beam that had brought him success in the Metre classes.
She was built in mahogany on oak frames at the Åbo Båtvarv yard in Turku, Finland, and launched in the spring of 1939. Length overall is 14.88 m (48 ft 10 in) with a 3 m beam and 2.4 m draft, originally carrying a Marconi cutter rig (later re‑configured as a yawl)
Immediate impact
Commissioned by a Swedish owner, PETER went straight into competition and won the Round Gotland Race in her maiden season, 1939a remarkable debut given that the race, founded only two years earlier, was already the Baltic’s blue‑riband offshore event.
Keeping a low profile through the warWorld War II curtailed Baltic yachting just months after her triumph. Records suggest PETER survived the conflict unharmed, but like many Scandinavian racers she spent the 1940s in quiet northern cruising rather than organised sport.
New owners, new waters
Through a succession of private owners in Sweden, France and Britain she gradually migrated south.
Around 2005 she reached Italy for a structural refit at Cantiere dell’Argentario, Porto Santo Stefano, emerging with renewed frames, a rebuilt mast step and freshly faired topsides yet still true to Lindblom’s original scantlings.
Recent Regatta Results
Guided by Italian ex‑America’s Cup sailors, PETER was optimised and skilfully sailed, becoming a benchmark performer and consistent podium‑finisher on the Mediterranean classic‑yacht circuit from 2009 to 2014.
Year | Regatta | Result |
|---|---|---|
2009 | Panerai Classic Yacht Trophy (overall) | 1st overall |
2009 | C.I.M. Cup | 1st overall |
2011 | Puig Trophy, Barcelona | 1st overall |
2011 | Trofeo Islas Baleares, Palma | 1st overall |
2011 | Trofeo Conde de Barcelona, Palma | 1st overall |
2011 | Panerai Trophy, Mahón | 1st overall |
2013 | Puig Vela Clàssica, Barcelona | 1st overall |
2014 | Puig Vela Clàssica, Barcelona | 1st overall |
Key Specs & Information
Designer Jarl Lindblom
Builder Åbo Båtvarv, Finland
Built Year 1939
Length overall 48 ft 10 in / 14.88 m
Length deck 48 ft 10 in / 14.88 m
Engine Nanni Kubota 40 HP Diesel (2010)
Length waterline 32 ft 2 in / 9.8 m
Beam 10 ft 0 in / 3.05 m
Draft 6 ft 7 in / 2 m
Displacement 11.7 Tonnes
Capacity Water 100L / Fuel 80L
Construction Carvel mahogany on oak frames
Registration, Yacht Club & Port
Registration Port
Guernsey
Member of
Royal Thames Yacht Club
Rigging, Spars & Sails
Rigging & Winches
Marconi Yawl
Sitka spruce masts and spars
Stainless steel standing rigging
Dyneema running rigging
3 x halyard winches main mast
2 x halyard winches mizzen mast
2 x reefing winches boom (reefing)
2 x primary winches cockpit
2 x main winch cockpit / coachroof
2 x runner winch cockpit
Wooden Spinnaker Pole
Steel Spinnaker Jokey Pole (Guy)
Sail Inventory
Crusing & Racing Full Mainsail
Shortened Delivery Main Sail
Light Genoa No. 1 (overlapping)
Medium Genoa No. 2 (overlapping)
Jib No. 3 - Inboard Battened
2 x mizzen sails
Mizzen staysail
Reaching Spinnaker
Downwind Spinnaker
Sail Areas
Mainsail: 543 ft2 / 50 m2
Genoa: 323 ft2 / 30 m2
Mizzen: 2 86 ft2 / 8 m2
Spinnaker: 969 ft2 / 90 m2
Accommodation & Equipment
Sleeping Capacity
6 Crew
2x Bunks Aft Cabin
2x Bunks Salon
2x Cot Berths Forepeak
Day Capacity
8 Guests
2 Crew
Racing Capacity
6-8 Crew & Professional Crew
Equipment & Amenities
12v Electrical System
100L Fresh Water Capacity
Fridge
Gas Burner & Oven
Manual WC
Safety
10 Person Liferaft
Manual & Electric Bilge Pumps
Full compliance with
MCA Commercial Code for Small Vessels
Though registries may fix her to ink on paper, true possession dissolves the instant her canvas harnesses the wind; from that breath onward one is only a transient custodian, bound by time and tide to tend her soul and pass her — improved, yet unchanged and unchained — to the helms yet to come.