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PERFECTION IN PERSPECTIVE
Rodger Witt, editor of "Wessex Magazine", has kindly given me permission
to reprint the article he wrote for the Winter 2022 edition of "Wessex
Magazine".
Who designed the Folkboat? Was it Tord seven of them, then charged Sunden
Sunden, the Scandinavian Yacht Racing with completing the final construction
Union, or God? Fact that this exquisite drawings. The process that should have
blend of aesthetics and efficiency created a camel, instead came up with a
emerged from a botched Swedish design swan – which was why the SYRU took the
competition in 1941 is nothing short of credit – as well as the royalties.
miraculous.
The judges merely wanted a simple Nothing special
‘people’s boat’ but, unable to pick a Even so, the result was greeted with a
winner from the 58 entries, asked three limp round of applause and that, it
designers to combine the best bits from seemed, was that. Except that it wasn’t.
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