S/Y Linnea

As you can see the bow is really high in Linnea. We need to use some sort of ladder to board her when laying at a jetty like this. As you can see the bow is floating really high. The mast will lower it significantly. But I think we need to put some ballast there […]

So here it is. She is floating really high at the bow because we haven’t stepped the mast yet and we also have a big empty stowage compartement at the bows.
The bleeding of the diesel took a couple of hours, as allways. I opened the wrong bolt and let some air in at the wrong […]

She floats, doesn’t leak and the engine needs a bleeding. Hopefully I’ll publish some pictures tonight.

Now we try to cut back on things that are not really needed to do trial sails. And we try to find stuff that really needs to be finished before we can sail. So the sail itself has quite high priorities. So after giving the mast some more Owatrol we brought out the sail to […]

On this picture the tiller looks a bit slim but in reality it is quite hefty. It is laminated from ash.

We planned on launching the boat today. My father waited for the guy with the crane while I was at work, but he didn’t have time to do it, since he had to fix some motor boats. So, maybe monday, since tomorrow is midsummer.

This is pictures of Samson. A Norwegian ferro cement boat from Stavanger. It is a great boat of with a pig fence as stanchions and Ikea stuff in the cabin and you can sit in chairs on deck, while sailing insore in the beutiful Norwegian inshore waters. I sailed with it a couple of years […]

We have this German bamboo place. They can supply any bamboo we want at a much lower price than any other battens. The problem is that the 60-80 mm battens we want to use for the uppermost battens are only available by September. So maybe we will double up 45-50 mm battens until then. One […]

We made some really nice plugs to forge the port hole frames in the deck house from bronze. Found a nice place where they made sculptures our of silicon bronze. They recently made a nice one of Astrid Lindgren. They understood what we wanted, 12 really simple frames of bronze. Everything seemed ok. … until […]

Ok, it wasn’t really a thriller. I just thought it sounded funny. Today we finnished the routing and sanding of the laminated ash tiller. Now comes a couple of coats of epoxy and then clear polyurethane.
We will bore the rudder head from the top down through the tiller to be able to be able to […]