Swedish Tall Ship

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Gotheborg of Sweden. World's largest wooden sailing ship.

In town for the 402nd anniversary of the city.





Kevin


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Edited to correct text.

[lupussonic]

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[GregH]

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Whenever I see a ship like this, the first thing that come to mind is - "How many miles of rope does it take for the rigging???"

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Nice image, Lupo!

Do you know the guys in the rigging?

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[lupussonic]

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Hi Kevin, no I do not know them.. it was a ship in Stockholm about 10 years ago. I'm sorry but I have forgotten the name of it.

Shot on an iphone 4 no less. Terrible quality but I'm glad you like it.

Martin.

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Hasn't made it yet. Was supposed to be September 2023 but the trip has been delayed.

Thanks. Got that info from my hosts. I have corrected the post.

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

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This one is there all the time:



She is the Af Chapman and she’s a youth hostel.

As a very small boy, the kindergarten that I attended at the age of four used to troop on board her for lunch. Best school lunches ever!

This is her centenary under the name Af Chapman; she started out in 1888 as the Dunboyne in 1888.

[heimlaga]

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The east indiaman in the first picture is called Götheborg. She is a replica of a Swedisg eastindiaman built in 1738 and sunk at Hunnebåden in the entrance to Gothenburg in 1745 either because of a misstake by the pilot or because of "dödvatten" which is a phenomena known to occasionally occur right there when fresh water from the river forms a layer on top on the sea water and the underwater wake formed by a ship may makes it loose both speed and steering.
The Swedish east india company was largely set up by Scotish immigrants in Gothenburg where many Scotsmen ended up fleeing from their war torn and oppressed homeland.

Let's see how long she stays in one piece. They cut costs when building her. The is framed in laminated pine and planked in oak. They figured nobody could see the pine frames. However the frames are the parts where extra rot resistance would be needed so that is where they should have used oak.

The af Chapman war formerly the Swedish navy sail training ship. By the way she is named after a very famous 17th century chief ship designer and head of the royal dockyards called Fredrik af Chapman. He was one of the first to apply science and mathematics to ship design. His father in turn was a Yorkshireman called Thomas Chapman who had worked as master carpenter at some English naval dockyard before being recruited by the Swedes.

[ron ll]

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Whenever I see a ship like this, the first thing that come to mind is - "How many miles of rope does it take for the rigging???"

I crewed on a three masted barque for a while in the late ‘60s. She was 98’ on deck, 138’ OA, relatively small compared to one’s discussed here. We were armed with lots of numbers for questions from the public when docked. She had five miles of running rigging, not counting standing rigging. 18 sails and 400 belaying pins each with a line controlling one part of a sail. We had to know the pins from memory, but there was a system that made that a little easier than it sounds. i.e., “Fore upper t’gallant starboard brace.”

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Swedish Tall Ship

This one is there all the time:







She is the Af Chapman and she’s a youth hostel.



As a very small boy, the kindergarten that I attended at the age of four used to troop on board her for lunch. Best school lunches ever!



This is her centenary under the name Af Chapman; she started out in 1888 as the Dunboyne in 1888.

Here are some views of Viking, moored in the city center. Heimlaga points out she is now a hotel and restaurant.







Kevin


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[heimlaga]

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That is the Viking. A former Danish schoolship built in 1907. She is moored in Gothenburg since 1951 and now housing a hotel and a restaurant.

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That is the Viking. A former Danish schoolship built in 1907. She is moored in Gothenburg since 1951 and now housing a hotel and a restaurant.

Ahh!

I read Andrews post about her being here and made the assumption it was the same white, tall ship. My bad.

Kevin


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[sandtown]

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That is the Viking. A former Danish schoolship built in 1907. She is moored in Gothenburg since 1951 and now housing a hotel and a restaurant.

. . . makes me yearn for a herring sangy !!

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Some views of Vikings stern and rudder.

Can anyone explain the sequence of her load lines? It does not appear to be a Fibonacci sequence.
😃







Kevin


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