What boat is this?

[travelnodes]

I have a friend who have a Swedish boat that was built in the late 60's and he thinks that it is a Norrland brandname. I have searched the web and can not find any such brand name. He says that some Swedish people have called it a Loren brand sailboat. Here is a photo. Does anyone know what kind of boat this is? It is a double ender.

[JohnRPollard]

That's an interesting looking boat, and it looks vaguely familiar, but I can't place it.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if Faster or JeffH recognizes it, or one of the our european members.

[Faster]

It looks like it could have been the inspiration for the "Nordica" line of small double enders. Definitely has that Scandinavian look.

I don't recognize it as a production boat - looks like a heavy duty little cruiser, though! Searching for "Loren" I found out that the designer of the Lord Nelson 41 was a Loren Hart... perhaps that's a connection?

Sorry, can't help you.....

[LarryandSusanMacDonald]

That exhaust port looks a little over-excited. And those dock boxes strapped to the life lines are a great innovation. Does it have pop-outs?

Seriously, where is this boat? I could swear I've seen it somewhere.

[LiamM]

Arvid Laurin was a fairly prolific Swedish designer who was working in the 60's.

[travelnodes]

Arvid Laurin built a 28 foot fiberglass boat in the sixties. It was called the L28 and it looks just like the one my friend has. His is called a "Norrland" and was built in the late sixties. It is a double ender with similar lines as the L28 but it is different in a few areas as well. Most of the information about the L28 is in swedish and so I don't know if I will be able to track down the maker of the "Norrland" if it isn't just a modified L28. Thanks for your help.

Here are some links:
www and l32.jbrems. and dk/

www and laurinkoster.just. and nu/

[LiamM]

yachts.apolloduck.com/feature.phtml?id=55879 has three LaurinKoster 32's for sale and one of them gives the name of the builder. Some of these sellers just might be willing to help you.

However, as I said in my earlier post, Laurin designed quite a few boats and they were built in quite a few yards, some as far away as England.

On www .laurinkoster.just.nu/ if you scroll to the end of the page there is an 'In English' option.

My own interest - I had a look at a sweet little wooden 30' Laurin a couple of years ago but I decided I would use more varnish than diesel in a season.

Good luck with the research.

[sailforeverwithme]

I believe she is called a 26' Storfidra check it out on google and you will find some info on the Midget.nl club website about her

[Faster]

Originally Posted by sailforeverwithme

I believe she is called a 26' Storfidra..

Good find, Sailforever, but I'm not too sure about that.

here's the OPs original mystery boat:



And here's the Storfidra 26



Plenty of similarities, to be sure, but a very different deck plan as you can see....

[Xosh]

I have no idea what it is...but a dark grey deck. Sun=OUCH!