Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Timpe Te"
Photos of the sailing ship:
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Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Rum-Regatta 2019,
05/2019
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Rum-Regatta 2023,
05/2023
Technical data of the sailing ship:
| Name: | Timpe Te |
| Registered port: | Flensburg |
| Nation: | GER |
| Type of rigging: | KUTTER |
| Year built: | 1946-48 |
| Yard: | Husumer Schiffswerft, GER |
| Overall length: | 9.50 m |
| Length (hull): | 7.00 m |
| Breadth: | 2.30 m |
| Draught: | 1.20 m |
| Sail area: | 45 m2 |
| Ship's hull: | Holz / Wood |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 08 Mar 2022
- built 1946-48 at the Husum shipyard/GER, wedding gift to the daughter of the shipyard owner, hull shape and construction according to the fishing vessels of the German Baltic Sea coast, cast-iron keel should give more stability.
- used in the North Sea, at times as a teacher's service boat on the Halligen/GER.
- after change of ownership and relocation to Borsfleth/GER change of rigging from a Bermuda rig in a gaff cutter.
- used in the 1980s for the film series "The Mystery of the Sandbank" (1985), in the film under the name "Dulcibella".
- then owned by the restorer Reiner Boje for a long time, but he did not use the ship.
- 2017 taken over by new owner from Flensburg, restoration of the boat by young people, then sailing trips with young people in their free time.
Contact:
Website (deutsch, 08 Mar 2022):http://timpe-te.de/new
Timpe Te: website of the owner about the ship, main technical data, some history, photos, contact