Word comes from Sweden that a new initiative—demonstrating an excellent use of the Internet—is helping to spread the story of Einar and Carl-Eric Ohlson, whose Ohlson Brothers yacht design office attained a global reputation in the mid-20th century. The brothers grew up in Halleviksstrand on the island of Orust, on the Swedish west coast, and apprenticed in the boatyard of their uncle, Hjalmar Johansson, whose yard built the first Dragon boats designed by Johan Anker of Norway. They began designing their own boats in the 1940s and quickly found success with custom sailboats. They won a Royal Goteborg Yacht Club small-craft design contest in 1949 with a pram-bowed skiff, more than 1,300 of which were built. By 1951, the brothers had opened an to-die-for kosterboats, including the K6 of 1944, the brothers' first successful design, which they drew for a sailing club competition.
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