Like a good philosopher who likes to read the source material, we wooden boat builders also like to go straight to the source instead of relying on standardized materials that almost never fulfill your needs. You might not see it in this video, but I am actually cutting 12 cm deep; for this, you need a lot of power from the machine and some skills to guide this dangerous cutting, another metaphor, you ask?
woodwork
Day 2846, love.
Boat building, Daily picture
Making a new keel for a 9-meter-long wooden fishing boat. The poor boat was thrown by the waves on large stones at the shore. It didn’t survive and sunk. It was rescued and repaired but not with love; it was put on land not much later and almost forgotten. The owner found some funds, and now the little boat will get some proper love and attention.
Day 2821, wooden boat.
Boat building, Daily picture
The end of the year means the end of the project we have been working on for the last few months. Restoring these old wooden boats demands a lot of patience and stubborn persistence. I feel lucky that I have a job like this.
Day 2477, at work
Day's pictures, Video
This is a window I work on now. It is from a church built in 1936 that got partially burned down 2 years ago. They will replace most of the old windows with new, better isolated ones, but my task is to preserve 3 of the original windows. In the two little videos below, you can see how I put in the glass panes, something I learned not so long ago when I started working here. It is satisfying work to preserve something that was almost given up.
Day 1417, down.
Day's pictures, Poetry
It’s fallen
on bare ground
wrought on
a memory
~
to make the demise
fruitful
Restoration of Brottsjø 15
Boat building
Martin repaired the two ends of the “livholt” and now Joost is helping to see if they can get one of the rotten pegs out, next week they have to see if they can find the peg on the outside because from here it isn’t working.
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Restoration of Brottsjø 14
Boat building, Poetry
On the port side Joost is busy changing more planks. We are still changing less planks than anticipated and it looks like it will stay that way.
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Restoration of Brottsjø 13
Boat building
This week Peder, the electrician finished his work on Brottsjø for this year. All the old switches, sockets and switchboards are cleaned, measured and repaired, if necessary using old parts where possible. Look at the results, they look like new again.
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Restoration of Brottsjø 12
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This week I worked with the new stern. The old stern didn’t fit so good anymore after so many years so I spent some time measuring the old Skin and inner stern/knee to make sure that the new one fits good.
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Restoration of Brottsjø 11
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Our smith has made a new part for the steering system. Chains from the steering wheel control this arm that is connected to the rudder, it was originally made by a smith so we used the same techniques to copy the old one.
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Restoration of Brottsjø 10
., Boat building
This week we started making the first new parts for Brottsjø and the sun is also back, what more do you want.
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Restoration of Brottsjø 9
., Boat building
We started working again on Brottsjø this week.
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Restoration of Brottsjø 8
Boat building
Because we don’t have enough boat builders work goes slowly on board Brottsjø but, we started working with the electric systems and Kazimierz the mechanic is organizing and planning his work.
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Restoration of Brottsjø 7
Boat building
This week we removed the “egnerhus”. There are parts from different periods, from the 1960 to the ’90. Under the glass fiber roof cover, probably from the 70’s we found small nails indicating that there was originally a canvas cover on the wooden roof. The sink and poorly made table are from the 90’s and have to go. When Brottsjø was used for fishing there was also a second stove standing in the “egnerhus” used for cooking and drying cloth, you can still see the round hole.
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Restoration of Brottsjø 6
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One of the last things the mechanics took of Brottsjø were the tubes around the chain steering. Now they can begin with restoring and cleaning everything.
Restoration of Brottsjø 5
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This week we started taking away the old “skandekk”, that is the construction at the side of the deck that prevents water that’s coming from the deck to leak in-between the ribs and so in parts of the boat that you can’t inspect and thus potentially can cause serious damage. Another important function of the “skandekk” is preventing the deck to get wider and wider, the way we make these decks water tight is by forcing hemp into the different seams between the planks, by doing this you create enormous forces sideways and the ” skandekk” stops these. At this picture you see how I check if the deck is straight or slightly curved. The “randplank” between the straight deck and the curved “skandekk” gets special attention because of its shape.
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