Fine silver tableware and yachts, this is a well-founded connection. Many of the world’s largest yachts are adorned with silver tableware by Robbe & Berking. The boatyard Robbe & Berking Classics, sister company to the silver manufactory, has made a name for itself, worldwide, with the restoration and new build of classic yachts to original, historic plans – also of the 12-metre class.

On the occasion of the already third classic 12-mR yacht that is being brought back to life here, “Jenetta” from 1939, Robbe & Berking has now created the 12-silver cutlery: “For more than 100 years the 12m yachts have been the epitome of sailing elegance and beauty. The world’s mecca of these more than 20-meter-long icons today is the shipyard Robbe & Berking Classics. To experience their spirit, more than 100.000 people travel to Flensburg every year. High time to unveil a silver monument to them, whose name leaves no doubt about the provenance of its graceful lines: 12. A Robbe & Berking cutlery designed by Daniel Eltner. Its appearance and appeal are not in any way inferior to those America‘s Cup yachts.”

The 12-metre “Jenetta” was conceived in 1939 by the designer Alfred Mylne, for an already then famous yachtsman. Sir William Burton had been, among many other feats, helmsman of the J-class yacht “Shamrock IV” belonging to his friend and business partner, Sir Thomas Lipton, in the 1920 America’s Cup races. With an overall length of 21.75 metres, “Jenetta” is the longest 12-metre ever to be built and very probably also one of the fastest.