5.5 Inventory: details of a boat

Boat details (n°225)

SUI-32

Essentials

Designer

Henri Copponex (SUI)

Builder

Louis Plojoux, Corsier-Port, Genève (SUI)

Material

Mahogany, carvel planked

1st certificate issued

01-01-1959

Original boat name

Ylliam XIII

Original country

SUI

Original sail number

Current location

5.5 G-7 "Bronia" - making the front pages in 1960 : Training for the Olympics
(credits : "Der Blaue Peter" / DHH, Hamburg)
Added by Kaspar Stubenrauch
on 2009-09-18

Photo Gallery (4)

Notes (4)

5.5 SUI 32 - The search is on

01-05-2023

by Kaspar Stubenrauch

by Kaspar Stubenrauch, 01-05-2023

Last located on one of the Northern Italian Alp-Lakes. Who can contribute with info on her current fate?

5.5 G-7 - making front pages in 1960

11-03-2021

by Kaspar Stubenrauch

by Kaspar Stubenrauch, 11-03-2021

Herbert Scholl (NRV) had won the elimination races in Germany with 5.5 G 6 "Hojwa", but then got G 7 (Z 32) from A. Firmenich, named her "Bronia" and sailed for Germany in the 1960 Olympics.

Correction : SUI-032 is "Ylliam XIII" , not "Ylliam VIII"

28-04-2008

by Site Administrator

by Site Administrator, 28-04-2008

"Ylliam VIII" was not a 5.5.
See specific note about Ylliam numbers succession.
Ownership corrected 28.04.08 / Seb.

The "Ylliam" 5.5's

28-04-2008

by Site Administrator

by Site Administrator, 28-04-2008

There has been seven 5.5 named "Ylliam" (the other numbers of the dynasty are other metrics or multihulls). "Ylliam" is the anagram of "Mailly", which is the name of the domain owned by the Firmenich family near Versoix, on the Leman lake.
"Ylliam X" is Z-11 (see SUI-011) Copponex/Corsier Port 1955 believably immediately sold to Charles Stern and become "Antiope VII".
"Ylliam XI" is Z-15 (see SUI-015)(and not XII as mentionned by mistake in the rating certificate), Copponex/Corsier Port 1956.
"Ylliam XII" is Z-23 (see SUI-023), Copponex/Corsier Port 1957.
"Ylliam XIII" is Z-32 (see SUI-032), Copponex/Corsier Port 1959.
"Ylliam XIV" is Z-36 (see SUI-036), Ohlson/Kungstor 1960.
"Ylliam XV" is believably Z-39 (see SUI-039), Copponex/Corsier Port 1960.
"Ylliam XVI" is Z-66 (see SUI-066), Hunt/Vator OY 1964.
Story reconstituted together with Pierre Girard and Noël Charmillot at the Musée du Léman on 03.11.06.

Document library (5)

Document

Size

By / When

5.5 SUI 032 rating certificate
Joker, 1963

514 Kb

François
Bouvier
08-04-2009

Henri Copponex - biography
Biography kindly provided by the Henri Copponex Archive

49 Kb

Kaspar
Stubenrauch
05-03-2015

5.5 GER 7 "Bronia" - MC
The G 7 certificate

795 Kb

Kaspar
Stubenrauch
26-12-2021

5.5 G 7 "Bronia" - GL
The Class certificate issued by Germanischer Lloyd

704 Kb

Kaspar
Stubenrauch
26-12-2021

5.5 G 7 "Bronia" - MC page 2
Boat data

736 Kb

Kaspar
Stubenrauch
26-12-2021

5.5 G-7 "Bronia" - making the front pages in 1960 : Training for the Olympics
(credits : "Der Blaue Peter" / DHH, Hamburg)
Added by Kaspar Stubenrauch on 2009-09-18