Can anybody tell me just what this is?

[bob winter]

I have had this boat for a few years and am slowly working on it. Hope to be finished this summer, maybe. It was built in 1960 in Norway by the same company that built the boats used in the movie "The Vikings" I am wondering if the model had a particular name.




http://i433.photobucket.com/albums/qq58/wintek1/boat/100_0417-1.jpg

[Michael D. Storey]

I think it's name is Bob.

[earlethomas]

http://www.woodenboatrescue.org/Gokstad%20Faering%20Newfoundland.htmhttp://home.online.no/%7Ejoeolavl/viking/norse_faering.htmInteresting, looks like a faering with a whacked off stern. Why don't you contact the builder, or ask someone at http://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/index.php?id=1246&no_cache=1&L=1 or at http://home.online.no/~joeolavl/viking/norse_faering.htm (http://home.online.no/%7Ejoeolavl/viking/norse_faering.htm)

http://home.online.no/%7Ejoeolavl/viking/norse_faering.htm http://home.online.no/%7Ejoeolavl/viking/norse_faering.htm

[bob winter]

The builder is still around but they stopped producing wooden boats years ago and have been absorbed into a larger company. I will see what I can find out on the websites suggested.

[bob winter]

Looked at the websites but didn't come up with anything of much use. Interesting sites, though. It can't be faering with a whacked off stern since it only has one rowing station and the websites say they have two sets of oars,

[esingleman]

That's a sweet looking boat

[Peerie Maa]

Looked at the websites but didn't come up with anything of much use. Interesting sites, though. It can't be faering with a whacked off stern since it only has one rowing station and the websites say they have two sets of oars,

Try a PM to Lagspiller?

[bob winter]

Lagspiller is the guy who sorted me out on the correct name of the builder. I don't think he knows what the name of this particuar model is, or he would have told me.

[Todd Bradshaw]

The basic concept seems to have some history behind it. I found this on the web somewhere a couple years ago and saved the jpeg. It appears to be a modified version of a Bernhard Faeroyvik drawing from some of the work he did documenting the old boats. The book "Inshore Craft of Norway" has a more complete version of the drawing, though it doesn't seem to give the boat type a specific name or say very much about it. This one is from Nordfjord and the Nordfjord boats often seem to have this different sort of planking pattern with a very tapered sheer strake over a couple of strakes with little or no taper forward, rather than having all the strakes taper more evenly as they approach the bow. Aside from that though, it looks pretty similar. It's labeled a "Vengbat" (sorry, I don't seem to have the little circle over the "a" on my keyboard). From what I gather, "Vengbat" basically means "cabin boat" and generally meant that the boat had a small removable cabin/shelter covering part of the stern. There are several boats in the book labeled Vengbats, but most are bigger and don't look a heck of a lot like this one. I didn't see anything that seemed to be a class name for boats with transoms. The small-ish ones included this one, a fairly similar but wider and beefier boat labeled a "Ship's Boat", some Seine boats that had transoms, but didn't look much like your boat and a few flat-bottomed boats that looked like kind of like dories.

http://webpages.charter.net/tbradshaw/VB2.jpg

[bob winter]

According to the bulider's plate, the boat was built by Henfick J. Askvik in Hagavik, Norway. I find it interesting the plate says Norway, not Norge, which would indicate that it was intended for export. The plate is stamped with "AR 1960", which I presume is the year it was built, and "NR2568" which I expect is some sort of hull number. I managed to find the company through Google but it is a pretty sparse site and they don't appear to have an email address and I don't think the mailing address is complete either. A mystrey that will one day be solved, I expect, but not soon, unless I start making better progress.