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July 2024 Ilvy By Paul Schnabel Ilvy is a Maxi 77, designed by Pelle Petterson, built over 45 years ago. This Swedish design was quite ahead of its time, with spacious, open interior with a lot of storage capacity, yet showing quite a fast hull design with fin keel, keel bulb and appended, big, balanced rudder. I read that the Maxi 77 is the most built keel yacht of the world, which gave her the nickname “Volkswagen of the Baltic sea”. She is lively to steer, easy to handle (even with pointy rig), simple yet robust in her outfitting and constructed sturdily. A good boat. ![]() We bought her 2 years ago, and since then we have coast-sailed her extensively, with her then Bermudan rig. Ilvy is the actual climax of our boat wishes, gathered over the last years with several other designs. Important for us was: being really sturdy built (hull with thick, full grp), appended rudder, no inboard diesel engine, spacious interior (flush deck), equipment being as simple as possible, electronics as simple as possible, rather small for ease of maintenance – the KISS principle. Except for the fin keel being a bit too vulnerable when grounding, Ilvy suits us quite well.
![]() Besides the junk rig conversion, we worked 6 months full time on an almost complete refit of Ilvy. We stripped out everything except for the galley, painted the ceiling and some furniture, removed the cabinets to lengthen the v-berth (I chose the wrong hobby for my body length…), stripped and rebuilt all electrics, removed and close-laminated all seacocks, installed mobile separating toilet, built seaweed-stuffed mattrasses, sewed a lot of hatch covers, sun covers, mosquito covers, etc, rebuilt and strengthened all windows, installed an ethanol-evaporating stove (HPV Samba), insulated relevant hull areas, installed storage nets and a sliding storage-box system. After we started the work, it escalated quickly… Since May we have been cruising the Swedish east coast, and do not need to be back in Kiel until October. We aim for Stockholm and the Ålands/ Finnland, but are not fixed on this. Let’s see to where the wind blows us! For more detailed stories, have a look at our blog: fiery-sails.de [And for those unfamiliar with the achievements of the designer, Pelle Helmer Peterson, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelle_Petterson Ed,] Our "Boat of the Month" Archive is here, and the forum discussion for comments and candidate suggestions is here |
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