Seidelmann Yachts

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Seidelmann Yachts was an American boat builder based in Berlin, New Jersey. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of fiberglass sailboats.{{cite web|url = https://sailboatdata.com/builder/seidelmann-yachts|title = Seidelmann Yachts|access-date = 10 February 2022|last= McArthur| first = Bruce |work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2022|archive-url= https://archive.today/20201119005933/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/seidelmann-yachts|archive-date= 19 November 2020|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboat.guide/seidelmann|title= Seidelmann Yachts|access-date= 10 February 2022|author= Sea Time Tech, LLC|work= sailboat.guide|year= 2022|archive-url= https://archive.today/20220210191315/https://sailboat.guide/seidelmann|archive-date= 10 February 2022|url-status= live}}

The company was founded by Bob Seidelmann in 1977.{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/designer/seidelmann-j-robert|title= J. Robert Seidelmann|access-date = 7 February 2022|last= McArthur| first = Bruce |work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2022|archive-url= https://archive.today/20200730191122/https://sailboatdata.com/designer/seidelmann-j-robert|archive-date= 30 July 2020|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboat.guide/j-robert-seidelmann|title= J. Robert Seidelmann|access-date= 10 February 2022|author= Sea Time Tech, LLC|work= sailboat.guide|year= 2022|archive-url= https://archive.today/20220210192553/https://sailboat.guide/j-robert-seidelmann|archive-date= 10 February 2022|url-status= live}}

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.{{cite web|url = https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/hunter-25|title = Hunter 25 sailboat specifications and details|access-date = 10 February 2022|last= Browning| first = Randy |work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2020|archive-url = https://archive.today/20200730181104/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/hunter-25|archive-date = 30 July 2020|url-status= live}}Henkel, Steve: The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats, page 311. International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 2010. {{ISBN|978-0-07-163652-0}}

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.

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.{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/sonar|title= Sonar sailboat |access-date= 10 February 2022|last= McArthur| first= Bruce |work= sailboatdata.com|year= 2022|archive-url= https://archive.today/20201118192737/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/sonar|archive-date= 18 November 2020 |url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/designer/kirby-bruce|title= Bruce Kirby|access-date = 10 February 2022|last= McArthur| first = Bruce |work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2022|archive-url= https://archive.today/20200825141144/https://sailboatdata.com/designer/kirby-bruce|archive-date= 25 August 2020 |url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboat.guide/bruce-kirby|title= Bruce Kirby|access-date= 12 February 2022|author= Sea Time Tech, LLC|work= sailboat.guide|year= 2022|archive-url= https://archive.today/20220212162444/https://sailboat.guide/bruce-kirby|archive-date= 12 February 2022|url-status= live}}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}}

Seidelmann also collaborated with Kirby on the 1981 design of the Seidelmann 24 racer-cruiser.{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/seidelmann-24|title= Seidelmann 24 sailboat |access-date= 12 February 2022|last= McArthur| first= Bruce |work= sailboatdata.com|year= 2022|archive-url= https://archive.today/20220212162015/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/seidelmann-24-1|archive-date= 12 February 2022|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboat.guide/seidelmann/24-1|title= Seidelmann 24-1|access-date= 12 February 2022|author= Sea Time Tech, LLC|work= sailboat.guide|year= 2022|archive-url= https://archive.today/20220212162137/https://sailboat.guide/seidelmann/24-1|archive-date= 12 February 2022|url-status= live}}

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.

Boats

Summary of boats built by Seidelmann Yachts:

References

Category:Seidelmann Yachts

Seidelmann Yachts

History

Boats

See also

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