2025 – United

What made this year special was the fact that it was the very first time Frank, Jens, and I sailed together on Rolling Stone. The last time the three of us brothers sailed together was on Jens’s quarter-tonner Haiopei. That was back in 2009 (!!). And 16 years later? It was another incredibly harmonious get-together – with not too many hours of sailing due to the weather, but still a great and wonderful experience. Of course, we don’t want to forget Rainer, who’s always there anyway as a sort of permanent crew member. Check out the galleries.

 

 

2023 – Deck finalized

The past years we worked very hard on the deck project starting from the bow. Now the stern was the only area left and 2023 we finalized it – yeah (click here). The whole deck now consists of mahogani plywood as the base material, 2-4 layers of glass fibre in epoxy resin, epoxy fairing compound, epoxy primers and at least 3 layers of PU deck paint, everything 2K of course. Brand new toe rails, cleats and other fittings give the deck a shiny and simply great appearance.

 

Rolling Stone goes 3D-Printing

The time was ripe to add a new and powerful tool to optimize our workshop and greatly improve our engineering capabilities. The combination of powerful 3D-CAD and subsequent 3D-printing makes it possible to design & produce tailored components for almost every application in a top quality. Although our first prints (covers, boxes, supports,..) are kind of techical gadgets as you see below, the possibilities are almost endless. Of course you must consider strength, durability, fatigue, resistance and other requirements, but that is exactly what I deal with daily in the course of my work :-).