Essentials
Designer | Sebastien Schmidt (SUI) | |
Builders | Josi Steinmayer, Meilen, ZH, Steinmayer Bootswerft, Meilen, ZH (SUI) | |
Material | Sandwich glass epoxy PVC foam | |
1st certificate issued | 1995-06-02 | |
Original boat name | Ali-Baba | |
Original country | SUI | |
Original sail number | 193 | |
Current location | Kanton Luzern, Sempachersee (SUI) |
Notes
- Project story - 15.04.2014 by Sebastien Schmidt
- SUI-193 was a brand new and fresh hull design built by Josi Steinmayer during winter 1994-1995. The fundamentals have been studied together and in the same time with SUI-190 design, but while SUI-190 design was searching polyvalence and all around abilities, SUI-190 took another exclusive route (request from the client) to be focused to very light air.
One unit only has been built from this design.
This boat was distinguished by a very low area fin-keel fitted with a trim tab with very long passive fairing strips that was able to reconstitute efficient asymmetrical thick laminar wing sections studied by aero-hydro engineer Remi Laval-Jeantet (see picture).
A funny (but sad) story from the first regatta : the boat has been sailed with the trim tab set to the wrong direction during all the week end, apparently due to a misunderstanding on the ergonomics of the trimming device. On Monday, Josi received the order to change the keel immediately for a classical one, without any further tests of validation with trim tab st in the appropriate direction... Too frustrating after all of these efforts.
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Ownership history
Sail# | Boat name | Owner name | |
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SUI-193 | "Ali-Baba" | Bruno Marazzi (1995-?) | |
SUI-193 | "Nina" | Heinz Saurer (1999-?) | |
SUI-193 | "Nina" | H.P. Scherer (?-?) | |
SUI-193 | "Joker" | Not disclosed (?-?) |
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