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- Captain Ludwig Schlimbach
(born 18th of september, 1876 München, passed away 13th of january, 1949 Hamburg)
- Captain with a lot of blue water experience in commercial cargo and passenger shipping, interned in USA during WW1, retired in 1929
- Passionate and acknowledged good sailor and yachtsman, sailed to New York in record time with STÖRTEBEKER I in 1931,
- took part in the Newport-Bergen regatta in 1935 with STÖRTEBEKER II,
- led the HAMBURG in the so-called Olympic regatta from Bermuda to Cuxhaven in 1936;
- is regarded as an experienced pioneer of ocean sailing in Germany, also thanks to his good international contacts in the sailing world.
Captain Ludwig Schlimbach, a prominent founding member of the “Hamburgischer Verein Seefahrt” and a member of the Yachtclub “Nordwest”, was looking for a new challenge in 1937: he wanted to sail east-west across the Atlantic all by himself. His friend of many years, Henry Rasmussen, built him the handy yawl “STÖRTEBEKER III” (launched in Bremen/Lemwerder 3.6.1937) for this venture. The captain had his ship brought to Lisbon on deck of the Hamburg-Süd steamer “GENERAL OSORIO”, from where he set sail on 19.6.1937. After 58 days, it reached New York via the Azores. Calms and strong winds had prolonged the voyage. In the USA, he once again enjoyed the attractive sailing area and the contact with his old friends. It was not until 18.10.1937 that he handed the boat over to the crew of the steamer “BERLIN” (Norddeutscher Lloyd), who brought it to Cuxhaven as a deck load. The city of Kiel honoured Schlimbach for his – by the standards of the time – spectacular voyage with the Golden Crown Compass (Schlimbach Prize), which he later bequeathed to the Yacht Club of Germany, now the Kiel Yacht Club (KYC), as a challenge trophy for special sailing achievements.
(p.112, “Einhundert Jahre Hamburgischer Verein Seefahrt 1903-2003”, HVS e.V. 2003)
Crew and companions during sailing sections 1937 from Hamburg to Lisbon and after arriving in New York during his good six-week summer voyage in Long Island Sound to Newport are only partially known. Schlimbach had numerous guests, visitors and friends on board, including sailing celebrities of the time such as Herbert Stone, Cruising Club of America and George Roosevelt, cousin of US President Roosevelt.
2. Henry Rasmussen
the boat’s owner and designer, took advantage of the boat’s notoriety and exhibited it on A&R’s stand at the Great Water Sports Exhibition in Berlin in April 1938, which was very well received. Rasmussen sailed the 1938 season and competed in several sailing events including “Nordseewoche”, “Jade Woche” and “Deutsche Ostseeregatta”. He also lent the boat to Christian Wilkens, whose brother Henry Wilkens commissioned the first sister ship PIRAYA before the war.
3. Carl-Otto Bohnenkamp
acquired the ship from Rasmussen in September 1938 through broker Adolf Fricke, Hamburg. Before the transfer to the river Rhine, A&R converted the boat according to the wishes of the new owner from a “deep-sea experimental vehicle” to a comfortable touring boat. Amongst other things it received a 2-cylinder 10 HP Penta engine with wave exit on the port side, some upgrades of the interior to increase comfort as well as a skylight in the saloon. The mast which had been put through up to now was converted against a mast which is upright on deck. 1939-1942 the boat was mainly used as a touring boat on the Rhine with a pennant of the DYC. During the war years, the boat was moved along with other boats to Balduinstein on the upper river Lahn for protection from the effects of war. In 1946, Bohnenkamp sold the boat 1946 to
4. Captain John Seward Roe
who had the boat brought from Balduinstein across the Rhine to Rotterdam and then as a deck load to Torquay, UK. He overhauled the ship, lived on the boat near London for a year and sailed in southern England. Due to ill health, he sold the boat to the British military doctor in early retirement in 1949
5. Dr. Ivor John Franklen-Evans
(*23.11.1904 Great Chesterford/UK, passed away 02/1989 Auckland/NZ)
- Medical studies Cambridge 1924-1927
- UK military doctor in Pakistan
- founding member of the Ocean Cruising Club London 1950
- member of the Royal Cruising Club London
- member of the Achilles Club of Cambridge University
- relatives in Southampton Medical doctor Mary Ursula Franklen-Evans (Fareham Hampshire, UK; passed away in april 2004)
- passionate ocean sailor, settled in Auckland/NZ (Descendants and contacts urgently sought)
(crew Frank Jensen left, Dr. I.J. Franklen-Evans right)
Dr Franklen-Evans sailed by boat via Norway, the Cape Verde Islands to the Caribbean, then through the Panama Canal to the Pacific. Destinations there were the Marquesas to Auckland/NZ (arrival 8.12.1950, crew Frank Jensen from Norway).
After a comprehensive overhaul including “new” Monel keel bolts, he sailed in 1953 via the Marquesas (“the real paradise”) via Hawaii to Victoria B.C., where he sold the boat in autumn 1954 due to enlargement to
6. Sylvia Magaret Rose und Dr. Theodore Rose (Ted)
Sylvia Magaret Rose
They sailed the boat with their three children for many years and removed the copper sheets glued with tar on the hull in the underwater area. They had contact to A&R and sold the boat in 1973 to
7. Dr. John Harvey
Neurosurgeon, violinist and photographer who maintained the boat with his son Brian and friends.
He had the coated original softwood deck covered with a teak deck. John Harvey sold the boat 1979 to friend
8. Christopher Grant Denny
(born 1947 in Victoria BC., passed away 3thrd of june,2011, launching date of SIII)
“face toward the ocean, teeth to the wind and heart full of love”
“Chris was a renaissance man – off-shore sailor, artist, inventor, architect, philosopher, lover, father, friend. He had a ruthless eye and ear for detail, entertaining many with his impressions of characters, real and imagined. He loved to laugh, most of all at himself. He was a truly uncomplicated man, sensual and infinitely kind. Born in Victoria in 1947, he spent much of his life cruising the BC coast and some of his happiest times were spent aboard his (always) wooden boats. Whether cruising or tinkering, he was most at home on the water. In 1981, he sailed to the South Pacific, heading out with crew and returning one year later single-handed. His stories of that journey were among his proudest, funniest and most often repeated. He loved food, wine, a good story, the company of good friends and anyone who could make him laugh. “ (Excerpt from the book of condolence, www.mccallgardens.com)
Chris carried out various repairs and modernisations at Bent Jespersen’s (Jespersen’s Boat Builders, Sidney/Vancouver Island) in 1980/1981 . Together with his brother-in-law Kaspar Schibli, he prepared the boat for its long voyage on the Pacific. The journey began on 2 September 1981 on Daphne Island – Saanich. In Neah Bay he took his sister Trisha and Kaspar on board (passionate long distance sailors from Vancouver Island, winner Far Horizons Award, CCA; SY STARFIRE from Kent). Together they sailed along the west coast via San Francisco to San Diego. After changing crew, they went via Baja California / Mexico to the Marquesas and Tahiti; the return trip from Tahiti via Hawaii to Victoria was single-handed.
Chris met the love of his life in 1994 and sold the boat a year later to
9. Robert Rogers
who used the boat as far as he knew as a daysailer in Victoria. Rob sold the boat on 13 July 2000 to
10. Edward Perry Louchard
from Port Townsend, Washington D.C. / USA. Ed, a gifted passionate woodworker with his own workshop, also used the boat as a family boat and participated in the famous Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend until 2007. A long-time crew member, along with the family, was Sean Rankings, local sailmaker and friend. In 2013, he sold the boat for family reasons to
11. Andreas Reuner
from northern Germany, who is gradually restoring the boat.
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