Eva Biederbeck
Jan Bruegge test-sailed his brand-new first WOY 26 daysailer on the Schlei, a northern German inlet, in October 2024. While WOY stands for “wooden yachts” in the design name, the first boat was also named WOY.
Through the open barn door, foliage was visible on the shore of the Schlei, a 20-mile inlet leading into the Baltic Sea. This area—around the town of Kappeln and the historic village of Arnis, which with a population of 260 is the smallest city in Germany—is second only to the Lake Constance area bordering Switzerland as a center of German wooden boat building.