for wi-tom

[Paul Pless]

what traditional small open boat sailing looks like in poland

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[Breakaway]

^ Stosh! Get the keilbasa out of the bilge!

[Hugh MacD]

WOW! Look at the bend on that boom! And lee helm?!?

[gypsie]

Its got a Norwegian Snekke look to it.

[WI-Tom]

WOW! Look at the bend on that boom! And lee helm?!?

Lee helm, or just starting a tack?

I like it. No PFDs, and dark clothes, so when you fall overboard, no one has to waste time looking for you. I admire the inherent self-sufficiency.

But "small" is stretching it. That would be a big boat by my usual standards. A very big boat. Probably doesn't row all that well, either.

Thanks, though!

Tom

[Dan McCosh]

Bare feet?

[Edward Pearson]

Seems he fixed his lee helm. WTF. No. No. and No.

4-Galeria

More Tom stylee...

[Keith Wilson]

Well, that's one way to hang an outboard on a double-ender . . .

[LeeG]

Bare feet?

gotta keep shoes dry for land.

[WI-Tom]

More Tom stylee...

Oh, yeah--I like that a LOT.

Tom

[Hugh MacD]

I was thinking about that "starting a tack" thing, too, but I figured the "rail bait" probably would have his feet inboard at that stage On the 2nd shot with the white sails is there a guy behind the main on a "trapeze"?

[WI-Tom]

I was thinking about that "starting a tack" thing, too, but I figured the "rail bait" probably would have his feet inboard at that stage On the 2nd shot with the white sails is there a guy behind the main on a "trapeze"?

And here I thought he was probably getting ready to abandon ship! (Good catch on the trapeze--I missed that).

Tom

[stromborg]

I'm looking at the way the water is coming over the lee rail and thinking he's trying to luff up so they can put a reef in.

[Edward Pearson]

Interesting...lapstrake but not built over molds (Western) or from a centreline and sticks (Norwegian). Right way up, sawn frames. Just a centreline string.

















http://struckboat.pl/4-Galeria

[Osborne Russell]

Roman Polanski shooting his movie Knife In The Water, about a Polish guy who goes sailing in his bathrobe. Are they about to tack?

[Paul Pless]

my favourite pic of his build

[leikec]

Paul, is that the build shown in Edward’s pictures?

Jeff C

[birlinn]

what traditional small open boat sailing looks like in poland

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3 seconds later it sank.

[Edward Pearson]

There's a choice of 4 sizes...

15k euros gets Tom a new 20ft European lover. That's bargainacious.



http://struckboat.pl/12-Budowa_lodzi_drewnianych

From Gdansk it'd be a drive or sail north to the Stockhom archipelago (30,000 islands).

[Edward Pearson]

Video of the big one...

[Paul Pless]

Video of the big one...

it seems like you are becoming a fan of these boats

[Peerie Maa]

IIRC they are built on a wideish flat keel plank to suit the skinny waters. That is why the dagger board.

[Paul Pless]

post 16 does not look like a wideish flat plank keel

[WI-Tom]

There's a choice of 4 sizes...

15k euros gets Tom a new 20ft European lover. That's bargainacious.



http://struckboat.pl/12-Budowa_lodzi_drewnianych

From Gdansk it'd be a drive or sail north to the Stockhom archipelago (30,000 islands).

Jeez, that's both a huge bargain, and impossibly too expensive for my budget. Unless I could sell it at not too big a loss--from $15k to $10k, maybe? A nice dream that I will ponder on, though my head says "not gonna happen" right now.

I've been eyeing up the Swedish archipelagos and the Finnish coast for a long long time. A boat like this would be great. Though of course I'd need a few changes:

1. Make it cartoppable
2. And capable of carrying up to 6 passengers/crew
3. And sleep 4 comfortably
4. Make it row easily, solo, with minimal wetted surface and a nice lean slippery hull
5. With enough beam to stand up to a whole mess of sail area

How'd I do?



Tom

[Peerie Maa]

post 16 does not look like a wideish flat plank keel

OK this one is not so wide, but still flat, and unlike Scandi boats, flat floors and little/no hollow in the garboards.


I wonder what part of the hull he was adzing out.

[Ted Hoppe]

Ever watch Knife in water?

[Edward Pearson]

Ness Yawl fixer upper...on ebay £600 (Essex England). Prolly won't get any bids (pictures are pretty poor and needs bits making. Cheap stuff comes up now and again Tom.




https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255547656...YAAOSwEYJiinGd

[Peerie Maa]

Ness Yawl fixer upper...on ebay £600 (Essex England). Prolly won't get any bids (pictures are pretty poor and needs bits making. Cheap stuff comes up now and again Tom.




https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255547656...YAAOSwEYJiinGd

The mast needs attention, but the rest of it looks not too bad.

[WI-Tom]

Ness Yawl fixer upper...on ebay £600 (Essex England). Prolly won't get any bids (pictures are pretty poor and needs bits making. Cheap stuff comes up now and again Tom.




https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255547656...YAAOSwEYJiinGd

Awesome! When can you have it ready for me to pick up?

Sadly, I won't likely have access to a shop, nor any tools, for at least the first year. Looking at the apartment we've reserved, I'm not sure I'll even manage to fit my clothes and shoes in.

But I have some hopes that I'll manage some sailing. Likeliest option will be to buy something in sail-away condition, and sell when I return to the U.S. Even selling at a loss, it'll be like a cheap lease that will get me to some European waters.

Something with decent rowing capacity, as I hear Europe has canals...

Tom

[Peerie Maa]

Something with decent rowing capacity, as I hear Europe has canals...

Tom

Yep, big busy ones.

• Augustów Canal
• Bachorze Canal first mention 1297
• Bydgoszcz Canal
• Bystry Canal
• Danube–Oder Canal
• Elbląg Canal
• Finow Canal
• Gliwice Canal
• Jagiellon's Canal near Elbląg, built in 1494
• Kłodnica Canal
• Łączański Canal near Cracow
• Masurian Canal
• Młynówka Malborska or Jurand's Canal, built in 1320
• Mosiński Canal
• Notecki Canal
• Piast Canal
• Przekop
• Szlak Batorego
• Ślesiński Canal
• Żerański Canal
• Wołczkowski Canal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_canals_in_Poland

[WszystekPoTrochu]

Yep, big busy ones.

Your map only shows classified waterways, options for small craft look more like this:

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[Edward Pearson]

https://woodenships.co.uk/small-craft/norwegian-sjekte/


Based on Jan. The first was built in New York!

Her story...

Jan-Story.pdf



Check out the Maine built 12ft Whitehall and the Anonio Dias Marsh Hawk too, for sale...

small-classic-boats-for-sale

[Joe (SoCal)]

WOW Edward that is a spectacular boat, well done.

[WI-Tom]

Oh, geez. Now you've got me all caught up on that website, Edward! (When I should be working on filling that dumpster...) I love the Antonio Dias lug-rigged dayboat, myself.

Dias lugger.jpg

I could be happy in the Baltic, along the coast of Finland, for quite a while in a boat like that. If my realtor pulls off a miracle and sells our house for what she thinks she can, it might even be doable.

Tom