Risør wooden boats festival (Norway), pictures

[Franta]

Hi folks,
as a thank-you to the people answering my questions over here I thought I'd share some pics I took yesterday at the Risør wooden boats festival. Unfortunately the harbour was packed and I could not get a clean view of the boats. Anyhow, here it goes and I hope you like them:

Let's start with the boat of the king of Norway (the Danish flag is from another boat):


Then some double ended boats and one flat-ended:


There was a half-dozen of beautifully slender and polished sailing boats from the 1930s:

This one was outstanding:


A bunch of Colin Archer(ish) designs:

(The first four from the left are actual "Colin Archer" lifeboats that were in service for the Redningsselskap).


Enjoy!

[Peerie Maa]

Excellent, keep them coming if you have more.

[JimD]

(The first four from the left are actual "Colin Archer" lifeboats that were in service for the Redningsselskap).

Some very special boats there. Thanks.

[Gerarddm]

Wow. Nice show.

[The Bigfella]

Excellent. Thanks

[wizbang 13]

Crikey, they got fine boats there!

[peter radclyffe]

thanks

[James McMullen]

I want to go to Norway in the worst way! Boat heaven!

[Franta]

here's the rest.

There was a replica of the Gokstad ship sailing about:


A few runabouts:


They were all dressed in their finest, love the leather seat:

another fine one:


Another fine double-ender:



And finally, any wooden boat needs a blacksmith:



That's all, the festival is every year on the first week end of August.
For the Europeans: Risør is only one and a half hour drive from Torp airport (Ryanair!), worth the visit.

[Franta]

The biggest surprise was a bluegrass band, the singer was extremely good:

[Larks]

Great stuff Franta, thanks for posting them, any more?

[Champagne]

Just a bit of interesting (IMHO) info about the King of Norway's "Stjernen" the 60ft Furuholmen motor cruiser you see in Franta's first picture, the boat is manned by the Navy, 1 officer (the captain) and 2-3 conscripts. They have up until now logged 3500 Nautical Miles so far this year.
Given that this boat is laying indoors between October and April I think that distance is quite something for an old lady like Stjernen. Tough old girl that they sail in almost any weather up here.

Brgds

Kim

[Annie]

Hello everyone, I am new to this forum and would like to introduce myself. My name is Ann-Marie and I live along the western seaboard of Ireland. I was given a present of and old 'wreck' for my birthday last week. However I am madly in love with my present to the point it is taking over my life (could be worse!!). I was told by the previous owner that she was an old Irish working boat, but I really don't think so. She has a diesel engine fitted at the moment but she was gaff rigged and we have the masts and fittings and she used to have a bowsprit but we don't have the original.

She is 19' from bow to stern posts and 5'10'' across the beam. We don't know what her keel is like yet. BUT she has vertical bow and stern and is double-ended. I have spoken to a man in england who suggested she may be of norwegian design.

Could anyone help please? Or could someone direct me to another thread for this kind of advice?

Thanks a million. Slan

[peter radclyffe]

Cruinniu Na MBad on facebook or hegarty's yard near roaring water bay may be able to help you

[Annie]

Thanks, I have already been on to them and it was they who suggested she wasn't a work boat but possibly a victorian gentleman's yacht. Also going on Hegarty's boat building course next month! Cannot wait!!

[Clan Gordon]

Annie

your boat may be a DRONTHEIM (derived from Trondheim, Norway).

These Norwegian infliuenced boats were the workboat of the North of Ireland including the Ulster Coast. They were also used in the SW of Scotland and its islands. She is a totally different type of boat to the Galway hooker or pucan.

A drontheim is long, low and slim, double ended (vertical stem and stern), clinker built, no deck (originally), thwarts for rowing and slots for one or two masts in the thwarts. No keel like a modern yacht. More like a big rowing dinghy or small ship's lifeboat. Designed to be used in places with no harbours, so built light so she could be hauled up the beach.

If your boat is a drontheim, you could get her restored by Macdonalds of Moville. This family was a famous builder of the old drontheims and still has the old skills. There is recently something of a small revival in these boats.

[peter radclyffe]

http://www.ilen.ie/ilen-ak-ilen-workshops.php

[Peerie Maa]

Hello everyone, I am new to this forum and would like to introduce myself. My name is Ann-Marie and I live along the western seaboard of Ireland. I was given a present of and old 'wreck' for my birthday last week. However I am madly in love with my present to the point it is taking over my life (could be worse!!). I was told by the previous owner that she was an old Irish working boat, but I really don't think so. She has a diesel engine fitted at the moment but she was gaff rigged and we have the masts and fittings and she used to have a bowsprit but we don't have the original.
She is 19' from bow to stern posts and 5'10'' across the beam. We don't know what her keel is like yet. BUT she has vertical bow and stern and is double-ended. I have spoken to a man in england who suggested she may be of norwegian design.

Could anyone help please? Or could someone direct me to another thread for this kind of advice?

Thanks a million. Slan

Anything like this?

and look here: http://www.ccmhg.org/Drontheims/DrontheimFrameset.htm
and: http://www.robin-ruddock.com/trad_boats.htm

[Annie]

Thank you all for your information. I am trying to upload some photos from my mobile but it keeps coming up that I've exceeded my limit?! Heliios is carvel but does look very like the photo in the last post. She also has a cabin at the moment with arched coachroof that seems to go through to the bow and stern. They are covered in horrible plywood at the moment. I'll keep trying with the photos

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Wow, great thread, thanks for sharing your pics!!!!!!

[Annie]

Hello, I am back again - still no luck uploading pictures don't know what I'm doing wrong!!

Anyway if anyone is interested at looking at some pictures they are on facebook under Helios Boat.

Thanks a million.

[snow(Alan H)]

Hello, I am back again - still no luck uploading pictures don't know what I'm doing wrong!!

Anyway if anyone is interested at looking at some pictures they are on facebook under Helios Boat.

Thanks a million.

There u go

[Annie]

Thanks a million!