The Nordic Folkboat
The Nordic Folkboat was born in 1942 by request of the Scandinavian Sailing Association, which made a competition for a cheap Nordic ‘one design’ sailing boat.
Nobody won the competition, but the five best proposals were joined into one single boat by the naval architect Tord Sunden.
The Scandinavian Sailing Association owned the license to the boat and the first Nordic Folkboat was build in Sweden in 1942.
The Nordic Folkboat is the largest keel-boat-class in Scandinavia and in Germany it is also very popular with a big fleet of boats.
In the U.K. and USA the Folkboat is also a very popular boat - especially San Francisco has a fleet of Folkboats, frequently used for regattas.
So even though the Nordic Folkboat is over 60 years old, it is still a perennially young and popular regatta and touring boat.
The Nordic Folkboat is the obvious sailing boat for the family, as a touring boat and as a regatta boat, because it is a very fine boat for regattas.
The Folkboat has a very simple rigging and it sails prodigiously in all kinds of weather, but best of all by a fresh wind - by hard wind, when all other boats stop sailing regatta, the Folkboat sails out and performs the regatta without any problems.
Through all of its 60 years the Nordic Folkboat has been the type of boat many families started their sailing career in - and later chose to come back to again, if they ever left it - because the Nordic Folkboat goes directly into your heart - you just love it.
The Nordic Folkboat has continuously been optimised and has followed the present trends - without destroying the idea of a simple boat and rigging - an important factor in the popularity of the Folkboat, both in Scandinavia and abroad.
The fact that this Folkboat has conquered hearts as far away as USA, Australia and Japan, tells us a lot about the quality of this special boat.
Brandt-Møller’s Boatyard has built the Nordic Folkboat since 1946 and over 600 Folkboats of wood or GRP have left the boatyard.