She was built in 1938/39 in Sweden by Oscar Schelin at Kungsor, and designed by Knud Reimers.
She’s 43 feet 6 inches long, 7 foot/2.2 metres beam, and draws 5 feet/1.50 metres. The mast is about 42 feet tall from the deck. Sail area (measured) is 30 square metres, but the actual working area is larger than that, and the spinnaker alone is probably 40 square metres. The cabin has about 4 feet headroom, and there’s room for three people to sleep, but the facilities are very basic, no toilet, no hot water. But she is enormous fun to sail, which is the key thing.
We’ve owned her since 1984, and sailed her for many years on the East coast of England, with summers in the Netherlands. In 1998 we decided to sail her to the Baltic, to see the waters she was built for, and we liked it so much that she’s still there, at the moment based in Finland.
Who are we?
There are five of us in the family, here are brief CVs:
Avril Osborne was born in 1944, and is now mostly retired from sailing, mainly because she bought herself a horse in 2014, and that’s taking up a lot of her time. Here’s Avril learning to drive a steam railway engine.
James Osborne was born in 1972, and is busy running a holiday letting business in Glasgow, while also finding time to work with charities and to go to music festivals. He hasn’t had time to come sailing recently.
Helen Osborne was born in 1984, and is the reason we bought Korybant, so we’re very grateful that she arrived. She moved to Malta in 2015, which makes getting to Finland a bit more complicated. On January 1st 2022 Helen married Matthew Farrugia. Matt is a keen sailor, so they have both been sailing on Korybant for the last 7 years. Matt and Helen are part owners of Korybant.
Matthew Farrugia was born in 1982, in Malta. He is a qualified engineer, and 
worked for a yacht service company after leaving university. He left that job to become self-employed in 2021, and now works for a range of sailing clients in Malta. He’s done the Rolex Middle Sea race (600 miles from Malta around Sicily & back) 17 times. Matt has sailed on board Korybant for 7 years now, and 2022 took on the role of skipper when David’s not on board. He’s also a great cook.
Lastly there’s the author of most of this site, David Osborne. I was born in 1944, and am now retired, which allows me to sail for most of June and July. It’s a great life.