Seidelmann Yachts

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Seidelmann Yachts
Type Privately held company
Industry Boat building
Founded1977
FounderJ. Robert Seidelmann
Defunct1986
Headquarters
Berlin, New Jersey
,
United States
Products Sailboats

Seidelmann Yachts was an American boat builder based in Berlin, New Jersey. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of fiberglass sailboats. [1] [2]

Contents

The company was founded by Bob Seidelmann in 1977. [1] [2] [3] [4]

History

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Bob Seidelmann was a sailmaker and one design sailor, winning championships in Lightnings, Comets and Dusters, as well as several other one-design racing classes. He founded a sailmaking business, Seidelmann Sails, with his father, Joe Seidelmann, in the early 1960s. He was co-designer of the 1972 Hunter 25 with John Cherubini, which became Hunter Marine's first production boat. He began designing his own boats and started Seidelmann Yachts to produce them. [1] [2] [5] [6]

The first designs produced were the Seidelmann 25, Seidelmann 30 and the Seidelmann 30-T, all in 1977. Reviewer Steve Henkel reports in The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats that some Seidelmann 25s suffered from poor construction quality. [1] [2] [6]

Aside from building Bob Seidelmann's own designs, in 1980, the company became the first builder of the Sonar, which had been designed by Canadian naval architect Bruce Kirby, designer of the Laser. The boat sold 60 copies the first month after it was introduced. [1] [2] [7] [8] [9] [10]

Seidelmann also collaborated with Kirby on the 1981 design of the Seidelmann 24 racer-cruiser. [11] [12]

The company went out of business in 1986, just nine years after its founding, in the downturn in the sailboat market following the early 1980s recession in the United States. [1] [2]

Boats

Summary of boats built by Seidelmann Yachts: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 McArthur, Bruce (2022). "Seidelmann Yachts". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 19 November 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sea Time Tech, LLC (2022). "Seidelmann Yachts". sailboat.guide. Archived from the original on 10 February 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  3. ↑ McArthur, Bruce (2022). "J. Robert Seidelmann". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 30 July 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  4. ↑ Sea Time Tech, LLC (2022). "J. Robert Seidelmann". sailboat.guide. Archived from the original on 10 February 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  5. ↑ Browning, Randy (2020). "Hunter 25 sailboat specifications and details". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 30 July 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  6. 1 2 Henkel, Steve: The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats, page 311. International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 2010. ISBN   978-0-07-163652-0
  7. ↑ McArthur, Bruce (2022). "Sonar sailboat". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 18 November 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  8. ↑ McArthur, Bruce (2022). "Bruce Kirby". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 25 August 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  9. ↑ Sea Time Tech, LLC (2022). "Bruce Kirby". sailboat.guide. Archived from the original on 12 February 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
  10. ↑ Sherwood, Richard M.: A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition, pages 120-121. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. ISBN   0-395-65239-1
  11. ↑ McArthur, Bruce (2022). "Seidelmann 24 sailboat". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 12 February 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
  12. ↑ Sea Time Tech, LLC (2022). "Seidelmann 24-1". sailboat.guide. Archived from the original on 12 February 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
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