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  1. YachtForums

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    Abeking & Rassmussen Yachts are built in its yacht building center at Lemwerder, Germany. Yacht builders Georg Abeking and Henry Rasmussen founded the Lemwerder yacht-building shipyard in 1907 and have produced over 6,400 sailing yachts, motor yachts and mega-yachts since that time. Abeking & Rasmussen feature environmentally friendly workshops containing high-yield production facilities for yacht and boat construction. Abeking & Rasmussen yachts generally start at a minimum of 98 feet in length. SWATH ship technology is adapted for efficiency, speed and comfort, while the use of varied materials such as wood, aluminum, steel, non-magnetizable steel, or fiberglass is used in construction. Abeking & Rasmussen's technical perfection is shown in the motor yacht; Excellence III, a 185 foot mega-yacht launched at the end of 2001, which won the 2001 Superyacht Award for Best Power Interior.

    Since the opening of its first yacht building yard on the Weser River, Abeking & Sasmussen yachts has grown into a large complex housing five halls for ships and yachts up to 72 meters, as well as office buildings on a convenient inner harbor equipped with a synchrolift.

    Abeking & Rasmussen shipyard, as a specialist in yacht building, professes a policy that no other ship is so charged with emotion as a yacht - so personal that it stands for an owner’s dream come true. On that basis it is the yacht builder’s task to transform the dream into reality, with a functional and reliable outcome, without aesthetic compromises. Each new yacht is unique, made to mirror the style and philosophy of its owner. Refitting of yachts is also a specialty of Abeking & Rasmussen, offering expert craftsmanship and technical service through total yacht reconstruction.
  2. atlas

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    schwalbe 2

    Hi trying to find the story of schwalbe 2 1937 building history & story in germany before being shipped to sydney nsw in 1947
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    Hi,

    Do you have any other info about it such as size,rig style, hull no etc?

    If it were built in '37 and then not shipped till '47 it would have probably been used by the occupying forces for some R & R as many yachts that were left in the area were.

    It may have even just been taken by a returning military figure who had the ability to get such a large piece of "baggage" onboard for the trip.
  4. AMG

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    The build nr is 3118 and she was built for Schütte & Bübemann in Bremen. This is from an A&R book and it only says Motorboot, not the size.
  5. Rene GER

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    The online Database of A&R has a column "LOA". Normally it says in our business "Lenght over all". There is the number 9.
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    schwalbe 2

    Hi schwalbe 2 is a 30 sq meter boat .was gaff rig later changed and told was built for the german navy. it would be good to get the boats early story and what the boat looked like .I forgot to say length of hull is 34 feet overall.atlas
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    Hi,

    I have talked to a guy I know at the yard and he said there are a couple of old blokes who have all then knowledge there is so now I see the hull no and description I will run it by him and see if he can come up with anything useful.
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    OK, now I found another Schwalbe from 1937, this is the 30 sqm sailer and she is build nr 3189. (The following year saw yet another Schwalbe, a smaller 12 sqm sailer).
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    Hi is there news on the yacht schwalbe 2 I have started to build framesfor a modle and would be nice to get info on the deck and rig atlas