Seidelmann Yachts was an American

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s. The company was founded by Bob Seidelmann in 1977.

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Bob Seidelmann was a

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and one design

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, winning championships in Lightnings,

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and Dusters, as well as several other one-design racing classes. He founded a sailmaking business, Seidelmann Sails, with his father, Joe Seidelmann, in the early 1960s. He was co-designer of the 1972

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with

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, which became

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's first production boat. He began designing his own boats and started Seidelmann Yachts to produce them.Henkel, Steve: ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'', page 311.

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, 2010. The first designs produced were the Seidelmann 25,

Seidelmann 30 The Seidelmann 30, also called the Chesapeake 30, is an American sailboat that was designed by Bob Seidelmann as a cruiser and first built in 1977. Production The design was built by Seidelmann Yachts and also by Dickerson Boatbuilders, both ...

and the Seidelmann 30-T, all in 1977. Reviewer Steve Henkel reports in ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'' that some Seidelmann 25s suffered from poor construction quality. Aside from building Bob Seidelmann's own designs, in 1980, the company became the first builder of the

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, which had been designed by

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Bruce Kirby, designer of the

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. The boat sold 60 copies the first month after it was introduced.Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition'', pages 120-121. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. Seidelmann also collaborated with Kirby on the 1981 design of the Seidelmann 24 racer-cruiser. The company went out of business in 1986, just nine years after its founding, in the downturn in the sailboat market following the

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Boats

Summary of boats built by Seidelmann Yachts: * Seidelmann 25 - 1977 *

- 1977 * Seidelmann 30-T - 1977 * Seidelmann 299 - 1979 *

Seidelmann 37 The Seidelmann 37 is an American sailboat that was designed by Bob Seidelmann as a Sailing (sport), racer-Cruising (maritime), cruiser and first built in 1980.Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition'' ...

- 1980 *

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- 1980 * Seidelmann 24 - 1981 * Seidelmann 34 - 1981 *

Seidelmann 245 The Seidelmann 245 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Bob Seidelmann as a cruiser and first built in 1981. The designer was well known as a champion one design sailor and also as a sailmaker.Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Fie ...

- 1981 * Seidelmann 295 - 1982

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