March 1926: Competition for the drawing of 30 and 45 square-metre spidsgatters
held by J.S.U. The winners were decided upon in September: Utzon won in the 45
class and placed second after Berg in the 30 class. Berg placed second in the 45 class
together with A. Witt.
January 1927: The delegates at "Sejlerdagen" decides to establish 30 and 45 square-metre spidsgatter-classes.
January 1928: Scantlings for 30 and 45 square-metre classes are agree to.
1931: J.S.U.1 is launched at Georg Andersens boatyard in Horsens as the first
spidsgatter built to the rules ..... the question is: is this the first class-spidsgatter? The
answer must be no because S45 D1 Bjørn is built already in 1927 (according to an
interview with Georg Berg in "Sejlerbladet" no. 6, 1946) even before the question
about scantlings is settled! It is not clear how the boat could be classed, but the only
likely answer is that the boat was built according to Bergs drawing to the 1926
competition. It is mentioned by the comittee who were in charge of the scantling-question, that the limits had to be quite large because the drawings of the 1926
competitors were very different and boats already had been built after the drawings.
S45 D1 Bjørn must be one of those and can be considered as the first class-spidsgatter built.
1933: 20 square-metre class decided to.
1935: 26 and 38 square-metre class decided to.
1936: 55 square-metre class decided to. Upon request it is discussed if oregon pine
should be alloved for the building of masts. The request is not complied with and it
was stressed that it was alloved to use built masts (instead of grown masts) but that
the material had to be Scandinavian conifer.
The building of boats to the classes mainly took place in the period 1930 - 1950 with
the majority built before WWII. The last one built and classed (to my knowledge)
was S30 D50 "Toy" (1963), a Naval-boat. At least 12 Naval-boats were built in the period 1943 - 1963 which makes that design the by far most popular class-spidsgatter.
In total the following number of boats were built:
20 sqm.: 4
26 sqm.: 18
30 sqm.: 48
38 sqm.: 24 (perhaps 26?)
45 sqm.: 15
55 sqm.: 2 (perhaps 3?)
The graph below shows all class-spidsgatters sorted by designer and building year. It is based on the 111 boats known to have been built and classed. Go to
register
for more graphs. Noteworthy is the high number of Utzon-boats, especially after WWII - most of them are Naval-boats.
