S/Y Linnea

OK, just so you understand why people are intimidated when they ask if the bamboo is a mast and we answer that we use it for battens. Ida got this offcut for making mugs of. But it says something about the size.
Batten waste

My hands are oh so sore. Tying battens to a junksail (actually with these battens it’s the other way around, you tie the sail to the battens) is bloody business. If you can stand the swollen fingers it is great fun to walk around with the bamboo, thicker than my over arm, until someone asks […]

So, my mother and I raised the mast today. It is really easy when noone have to run around deck trying to get those wires attatched.
We changed the halyard from three strand to a braided one for less friction between the parts. And also changed to a wooden block, as you can see. And put […]

Some of the bamboo battens grow mildew last year. Will try some treatment this year.
But what is best?
Paint? Varnish? Cuprinol? Nothing?
Suggestions, please!

I would like to think I know a thing or two about boats. The problem is, as the years go by, people who know stuff tend to become a bit rigid in their beliefs. But not me, you see. I don’t only know a lot about boats. I have also found a way to keep […]

Warning! Old pictures. This is how the mast is reinforced.
Laminated pine for the mast partner under deck. Also works as an oversized backing plate for deck hardware. I don’t understand why some people use grp-tubes or stainless bolted to deck. This is much simpler for a wooden hull, anyway.
Mast partners

The partner knees are epoxied with […]

Today the bamboo for the battens finally arrived. But they are too thin. Obviously there was some misunderstanding in how to measure the diameter.
So we got 26 canes. 5,4 meters long. (That means about a third of the batten will be overlapped and seized in the middle.) At the thick end they were 40-45 mm […]

According to the latest info, the bamboo might arrive at Stockholm tomorrow. Then we might be able to finish the rigging.

The bamboo won’t arrive until next week. So now we work on other stuff. After a couple of rides with our about 20 years old bosuns chair we had to get something new. So I bought a climbing harness a bit extra padded from a rock climbing shop. I also found an emergency break that […]

So at last we could raise the mast. Thank you Ricard for all the seizings etc.

First we moved the heavy thing to the mast crane.

Then we moved the boat.
We just had to take a trip under engine. Here is Ricard at the tiller. I must say that this boat is much easier to maneuver than […]