Tumlare

{{Short description|Yacht class}}

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The Tumlare (lit. Porpoise) is a class of canoe-sterned (or 'double-ended') yacht designed by Knud Reimers. The design dates from the early 1930s (1933 from a majority of sources; No. 1, Aibe was built the next year for Bengt Kinde).{{cite web|url=http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?13680-AIBE-S1-TUMLAREN|title=AIBE, S1 TUMLAREN|work=woodenboat.com |access-date= 4 February 2018}} The Tumlare is {{convert|8.30|m}} overall;{{citation |last1=Bremberg |first1=Fred |last2=Seth |first2=Staffan |title=Segelbåtstyper: kortfattade beskrivningar med igenkänningstecken och dimensionsuppgifter för svenska segelbåtar |edition=2nd revised |year=1965 |publisher=Aldus/Bonnier |place=Stockholm |language=sv| page=51 }} the design was strongly endorsed as a 'very advanced type' by Uffa Fox who was especially interested in the composite method of construction employed, with metal frames interspersed between the timber ones.{{cite book |title= Classic Classes |author=Vanessa Bird |page = 150 |isbn=9781934982075}}

The class became popular worldwide. Examples are to be found all round the Baltic, in the UK, North America and Australia.{{cite web |url=http://www.tummelisa157.dinstudio.se/ |title=Startsidan/Home - Reimers Tumlaren |work=Reimers Tumlaren |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004213950/http://www.tummelisa157.dinstudio.se/|archivedate=2013-10-04}} The total number built is given variously from 'At least 200'{{cite web |url=http://sailboatdata.com/viewrecord.asp?class_id=6505 |title=TUMLAREN sailboat specifications and details on sailboatdata.com |work=sailboatdata.com |access-date= 4 February 2018}} to 'Some 600',{{cite web |url=http://www.tumlare.org.uk/history.html |title=Tumlare Owners Group|work=tumlare.org.uk |access-date= 4 February 2018}} with '660' given in Vanessa Bird's 'Classic Classes'.

As standard, the class carries {{convert|20|m2}} of sail,{{cite web|url=http://www.classicboatclasses.co.uk/#/tumlaren/4563508404|title=HOME - Classic Boat Classes: Tumlaren|work=classicboatclasses.co.uk|access-date= 30 May 2018}} however a variant known as the Hocco is a class with the same hull but {{convert|28|m2}} of sail, conceived for sailing on inland waters, specifically Lake Geneva.{{cite web |url=http://www.voilesdantan.org/index.php/saint-bonaventure-hocco-1934 |title=Saint Bonaventure - Hocco (1934) - Atelier des Voiles d'Antan du Léman (AVAL) |work=Atelier des Voiles d'Antan du Léman (AVAL) |access-date= 4 February 2018}}

The larger sister class, the 32' Large Tumlare, Stortumlare, or 'Albatross' class is a related design.{{cite web |url=http://www.woodenboat.com.au/register/listing.asp?boatid=14477 |title=Celeste - Wooden Boat |work=woodenboat.com.au |access-date= 4 February 2018}}