Characteristics of Zeewind

Boats can be built for speed, for comfort, and for price. If you want speed, a boat is constructed as light as possible, so it will plane or half-plane easily. One has to give in on accommodation, livelihood, and equipment. All reqs, that ultimately have to result in far less displacement.
Building for comfort, entails quite the opposite - much attention is paid to accomodation, and space for stocking up, while a propensity to restricted draught favors sailing in a coral environment. Enough equipment and spares need to be on board, to deal with long periods of staying 'out there'.
Costs are usually related to labor costs, and saving these costs by building yourself, used to be an option. However, nowadays saving should be more related to low cost countries, than to building costs in wealthier ones.
Considering Zeewind, the boat is obviously of the 'comfort' breed, as she is not intended for racing, but for living aboard, laying at anchor most of the time, and traveling long distances in-between. This type of boat was a usual appearence in the fifties and before, but largely replaced by better racing qualities and finishing standards of later years. They were, and are a bit less vulnerable to floating objects, such as dead heads, and drifting containers. Zeewind has less draught, and being slower and heavier, has a slight edge of offering more seakindliness.