No question, SNIFIX DRY is really a crazy ship name, but it certainly has one advantage - it is very, very rare. All the ALDEBARAN, ORION and ALBATROS that populate the ports can dream of that. A lock keeper once called us on the VHF “the yacht with the funny name”. And if you just enter “SNIF” at vesselfinder.com, for example, we’re instantly there, unmistakable.

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But that's all just a coincidence and side effect, nobody ever set out to invent the most absurd ship name, because the real story of SNIFIX DRY goes like this:

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It begins in the 1970s with our previous and first owner Fredi Heins and his family in Bremen. They already had a boat before our SNIFIX DRY. And then they were faced with the question of a name. Since ASTERIX & OBELIX was very popular and the children were of the relevant age, the wish arose that it should be a name with the ending "IX". So they simply looked at the family name Heins, took the last three letters from the back, and SNIFIX was born.

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The first SNIFIX was - like ours - a centerboard boat, but it had a small defect: The centerboard case was probably a bit tight, every time the centerboard was fully brought up, it blew up the case a little and she took water - that's what SNIFIX became easily SINKFIX.

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When Fredi Heins commissioned SNIFIX's successorr, everyone had one wish: The new boat should be really dry - and so SNIFIX DRY was born.

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It's obvious that you don't simply rename a boat that has acquired its unusual name when you buy it. Respect was required. And it is there under number 6372 in the eternal building number book from Abeking & Rasmussen.

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So we're also happy about this unusual boat's really unusual, completely stupid name.

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And the design in which it appears on the hull is of course also original 70s. Another reason to leave everything untouched.

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