Knud H. Reimers

Bought Estlander's Stockholm practice at twenty-five and three years later drew the Tumlaren — a small, cheap, very fast double-ender that spread to the Baltic, Britain, North America and Australia.

Trained

As a shipwright at Krupp Germaniawerft in the 1920s; apprenticed at Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder

Practice

Joined Gustaf Estlander's Stockholm studio and bought it in 1930, aged 25

Archive

Maritime Museum, Stockholm

• 1933Tumlaren — became an international class
• —Bacchant II — 75 m² skerry cruiser
• —Cohoe — 32-ft large Tumlare; won the 1950 RORC Transatlantic Race under Adlard Coles