FOLKBOAT. Photo by The Jerners, courtesy Solar Boat Co. 



family sloop suitable for 'round-the-cans' competition during the season as 

 well as for family cruising, KGSS, the Royal Goteborg Yacht Club, held a 

 designing contest. Over sixty designs were submitted and a Danish and 

 Swedish proposal split the price. Tord Suden, Goteborg naval architect, 

 was selected to combine the two. In 1941 the first Folkboat shd down the 



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