The Dragon
The Dragon was the result of a competition held by the Royal Gothenburg Yacht Club (RGYC) in 1927.
The RGYC wanted to find a boat that young people could afford and which could be used as a weekend cruiser on the lakes and fjords in Scandanavia. Johan Anker’s design was a Bermudian rigged keelboat with long overhangs and a short coach roof. The boat had two berths and it was possible for the crew to live onboard for several days. This winning boat was the original Dragon and was first built in 1928.
When the design was submitted to the then IYRU (now ISAF) he or someone else translated his name “Anker” into Norwegian language “Draggen” and the English, being reluctant to speak other languages, made out of “Draggen”, “Dragon”, probably thinking that this Norwegian did not even know how to spell Dragon.
