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Profilen,
S 8971
à jour au: 1988
1981 Plan Norlin, built in aluminium
1981 Gotland
Runt: 1st/??
July, Three Quarter Ton Cup,
Helsinski: 6 - 2 - 3 - 2 - dnf = 11e/30,
L. HYSE
Construit en fines tôle d'aluminium
emboitées article de "Bateaux" de Novembre 1981
1982 Three
Quarter Ton Cup, Denia: 11 - 14
- 20 - 3 - 6 = 9e/30, SUNDELIN
1987 24 August, Three Quarter Ton Cup, Nieuwpoort: 8 - 11 - 16 - 3 - 4 = 9e/16
1988 Gotland Runt, ???
NM: 2e/26 Class 4, Thomas
BLIXT
From https://www.bertoft.com/profilen (January 2023):
Case story: S/Y Profilen was initiated by my first employer. It became a project supported and developed by SAPA – Scandinavian Aluminum Profiles AB. It was the first ever sailboat built entirely of aluminium profiles. Profilen was a fast sailor. She won the Gotland Runt Race and she held second place at the World Championships in Helsinki in the last long offshore race when she unfortunately had to quit in the hard wind due to an accident.
Extreme construction
The hull was 1.8 millimeter thick and the deck only 1.0 millimeter. Glued together
with epoxi from the air plane industry made it lighter, stiffer and more solid
than a comparable yacht in plastic. This created an opportunity to concentrate
the weight in the ballast and keel. Another advantage was the production time:
Just "clicking" profiles together was expected to speed up the production
time. And Profilen – the first ever one-off – was built in three
months from the day the first profiles arrived.
A marketing challenge for SAPA and Peter Norlin
SAPA, Skandinaviska Aluminium Profiler AB saw an opportunity to promote their
techniques, prestanda and competence with this project. Their constructor Anders
Löfqvist and the renown yacht designer Peter Norlin developed the construction
in cooperation with the founder of the idea, Lennart Hyse. It turned into an
exciting marketing challenge and was highly regarded in the business field of
construction, yacht design and sailing. The press event in SAPA on May 12, 1981
was an international success:
Sailing Gotland Runt and two World Championships
Profilen was a fast sailor and I was given the opportunity to participate as
junior crew member at a number of smaller races. But also as a stand-in, coordinator
and racing chef (!) at the World Championships. Wow, was that exciting or what.
Profilen won Gotland Runt 1981 – the largest sail racing
competition in Sweden and the Baltic Sea. She then competed in the 3/4 Ton World
Championships 1981 in Helsinki, Finland and 1982 in Denia, Spain.
Spain was of course a special adventure and a chance to hang with professional sailors. One of my few regrets in life come from the time there. The racing team on iconic 50-footer Big Foot with renown sail racer pro Roger Nilsson onboard, asked me if I wanted to sail Big Foot with a crew to Sardinia after the competition... hm, I had a job meeting booked back home and my loyalty to my clients made me say "no thank you", but I felt in the same moment that it was a huge mistake. Huge. I went home a few days later. The meeting was cancelled... I then promised myself that never again will I say no to an opportunity like that. That incident have in fact changed my perspective on life.
The World Championship in Helsinki the year before was also exciting of course. Profilen did really good and was in the top before the last long offshore race when she unfortunately had to quit in the really hard wind due to an accident, apparently hitting something that made a dent in the port side bow. The wind was around 40 knots and increasing and the crew decided to turn back.
I didn't get to participate in any of the Helsinki races as
everybody in the ordinary crew was ok, but I got to be there... and I was asked
to be in charge of the sailing Profilen back home to Sweden. I grew a lot from
that trust shown by SAPA and the crew that went back home. So I invited my best
buddies Fredrik, Mathias and Kalle and we hade a great and adventurous journey
back to Stockholm..
