Introduction:

The Square Meter Rule was developed in the Baltic sea, and then primarly in the archipelago outside Stockholm, Sweden in the beginning of the 1900 century. The typiclal Scandinavian design was made to sail well among all the small islands and being able to catch the winds that come over and around the small "islands" or kobs called "skar" in Swedish.

The design created long sleek hulls, ment for the relativly flat waters between the islands and also so that the yacht would be a ble to maintain its movment when it lost the wind while passing a "skar". Even if they where proved to be best sailed in the flat waters they also had to have the ability to sail in the relativly ruff waters between the islands and take on a good brezze. This resulted in the very long and sleek hulls the so much represent the class.

The Royal Swedish Sailing Association in 1908 but was to be revised in 1925 as the original rule soon lead to extream and fragile yachts that where to be very expensive to build.

Overall one could say that the yacht was very suiteble for racing and at the same time made a lovely pleasure yacht (when looking at the standards of the time).

The Square Meter Rule is a construction rule rather then a design rule, so each boat have there own design and look. This means that each boat has a set amount of sail area acording to some class regulation and messures while the hull can differ in length and width alot wiht in the same sail-area class.

Since 1925, the last revison of the square meter rule, there are nine classes wiht in the class: 15, 22, 30, 40, 55, 75, 95, 120 and 150. Each representing the maximum amount of sail area on the boat.