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Recently I read at the 'Götheborg' site (http://www.soic.se, nice videos...), the East India ship replica that is now nearing Hongkong, that they were visited by some chinese who are building a...

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In the http://www.realclimate.org site there's somewhere in archives a good explanation why Europe probably won't freeze even if the Gulf Stream would slow down some. IIRC something to do with...

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I'm mostly lurking here... but when it's something about something that I know something about, cannot help myself... that wasn't too clear...

Anyway, the brig Unicorn is originally a...

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I've now used Tonkinois on my boat for 4 years and intend to use it still... (just doing the spring varnishing etc now...)

One product that they have is a sort of paste in a 'toothpaste...

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I've now used Tonkinois on my boat for 4 years and intend to use it still... (just doing the spring varnishing etc now...)

One product that they have is a sort of paste in a 'toothpaste...

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I've now used Tonkinois on my boat for 4 years and intend to use it still... (just doing the spring varnishing etc now...)

One product that they have is a sort of paste in a 'toothpaste...

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doesn't the Lord Nelson have roller reefing upper square sails (the ship for disabled in UK); perhaps they can help you some? See http://www.jst.org.uk/

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Seppo

ACB,

as a Finn I must take some exception to your mention about the finnish boat flags.

They are officially sanctioned (mentioned in the lawbooks etc) and actually are older than the official...

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thanks for the compliments... the groundwork was done well when I bought her so perhaps that helps. I've now used Tonkinoise and it seems to keep well here, perhaps the short season has also...

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thanks for the compliments... the groundwork was done well when I bought her so perhaps that helps. I've now used Tonkinoise and it seems to keep well here, perhaps the short season has also...

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thanks for the compliments... the groundwork was done well when I bought her so perhaps that helps. I've now used Tonkinoise and it seems to keep well here, perhaps the short season has also...

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I'm mostly lurking here and following the more interesting discussions; there are so many better comments and answers to many questions that I have not felt any great urge to add to the...

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I'm mostly lurking here and following the more interesting discussions; there are so many better comments and answers to many questions that I have not felt any great urge to add to the...

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I'm mostly lurking here and following the more interesting discussions; there are so many better comments and answers to many questions that I have not felt any great urge to add to the...

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in the 18th century the ship definitions went mostly by their hull form; a good selection is in example in 'Architectura navalis mercatoria' by Chapman from 1768. You could access the drawing...

Paul,

I have a 1963 built 28-footer in mahogany, finished bright... also she doesn't leak at all when moored - sailing her is then a different matter; probably some seams have dried a bit so that...

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AFAIK there is no collection of finnish boat pages in english... but at least if you have time to browse the www.puuvene.net (that happens to be 'wooden boat' in finnish) you can find some...

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it's just a triangular transom... perhaps the camera wide angle is distorting it a bit so that it looks odd.

A rather usual configuration in lake rowing boats. That one is on a big side for...

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Well, this is maybe the worst time to visit Finland for wooden boats - they are (or should be, I've seen couple of bad examples...) under cover, waiting a more clement weather for owners to...

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...and russians are building 4th or so oil harbour near Petersburg, among some of the navigationally most difficult skerries in world, and now there is about 40 to 50 ships sitting in the ice...

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A good book on the issue and also generally managing a sailing ship is the 'Seamanship in the Age of Sail' if you can get your hands on it. Different methods of anchoring, using several...

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Just remembered that in some book about British maritime history was mention that about 1420's they had at least one ship built in lapstrake, about 150 feet or so; some remains have been found...

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I do not speak swedish or so too well but here's an attempt at it...

Pilot boat "Foam" from Kalmarsund. 20.5 feet. Length 6190, breadth 1800 mm. Built in 1910's by Pelle Fräsare in Kalmar,...

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Sometime in '70s and/or '80s some people over here built quite a few folkboats in cold molded way, so keeping the hull shape etc but having no lapstrake structure... I have no idea how the...

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Eye of the Wind was sold some time ago to Denmark; I haven't found info about her current whereabouts or so..

Saw her in Helsinki several years ago, discussed with somebody the yards in the...

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just read at the BBC website that Icelanders have problems with their fishery; seems that they made some poor choices earlier and now the catch has fallen badly... something like two thirds of...

literal translation: Hunting canoe

literally, Pilot boat

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Seppo

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Would it be possible to involve EU, as in the case of the Feta cheese, where the use of the 'Feta' was recently forbidden to all others but to those that 'originally' make it, like Greek...

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Just some practical happenings that I've had and heard about concerning this goop stuff...

I've put some goop called 'Proof' into the underwater seams and that seems to work ok, it's pushed...

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The June Classic Boat has a story about a restored 1902 Scots herring drifter Reaper, a short sail and general info, if you can find it... (has a picture of Lutine on the cover)

Those french...

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there are a lot of them around here still, a few new (wooden) ones built now and then. - There is also a gl****e version... Hai 2000 it's called...)

There is also a class association - no...

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there are a lot of them around here still, a few new (wooden) ones built now and then. - There is also a gl****e version... Hai 2000 it's called...)

There is also a class association - no...

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there are a lot of them around here still, a few new (wooden) ones built now and then. - There is also a gl****e version... Hai 2000 it's called...)

There is also a class association - no...

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The Maritime Museum in Stockholm seems to have some drawings by Reimers; you might ask them...

look at http://www.sshm.se/sjohistoriska/Eng/libraryarchives.html - they do not list Reimers on...

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AFAIK the Owatrol = Deks Olje

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Seppo

(ha, my boat is in water, mast is up; perhaps getting a sail in a few days...)

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In the olden days they had these hooks on the opposite side of the mast to a shroud or stay or anything so that the pull didn't try to separate the part from the mast...

If your local store...

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(had a short vacation, no computer in sight! nice...)

The black stuff is tar, with caulking.

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Seppo

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He builds traditional boats; in a couple of pics you can see molds so it isn't quite by the eye. Nice boats...

BTW, I visited the Finnish Boat Show that ended last weekend - there was a...

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Have you asked the NMM in London... I'd guess they could have a few...

I've been wondering going a bit more backwards, something like 1768 http://media5.hypernet.com/~dick/ubb/smile.gif the...

there is another thread on this on

http://media5.hypernet.com/~dick/ubb/Forum2/HTML/001309.html

if you haven't taken a look for a while...

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Seppo

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just partially connected with the matter, in the German Yacht magazine was a story (some time ago) about a couple that went around the world with a sailing boat with electric motor in...

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you might look at the electric boat association's web pages at www.electricboat.com. Here in Europe, in Britain, is one electric (boat and other) engine maker at www.lynchmotors.com (if I...

Here (in Finland) I have heard of one about 30-35 footer that was sheathed so; also a 3-masted schooner that I've seen myself (a long story cut short: a group of eager people wanted to save that...

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Take a look at

http://mongbat.helsinki.fi/tuoppi/english.htm

if you like to see a summary of an annual happening here in Finland. At best more than 200 boats.

I hope to participate...