It is not too much stated, if I legend that nine of ten persons, who visit my boat workshop inhale, smile deeply and proclaim exactly this, smells ”it i.e. here well”.

Many follow the sound of the riveting hammer, and at least 2000 –3000 summer guests enjoy the smell of wood shaving and wood tar. Many remember its childhood, boat care and spring tendency. Others had a father or a grandfather the boat farmer were and to experience again the opinion of again-planed boat planks in the middle in a large heap splinter. For again different the smells are strange and new, but it is nevertheless so, as if the senses recognize something age-old, something exciting however simultaneous calming down.

It is already strange with old boats. They carry many memories in itself unbelievably. Not only from at home and of humans, who do not live no more, but also the smell of sea-seaweed and tar, seewind and seawater. Memories of fishing, if the fish bite, the joy to rudders, if the boat dances easily over the waves....
There it is a sad sight, if one regains the boat of its child and youth memories with broken gunnel, clever planks or rot damage to the keel.

But can be repaired such a thing. For many, which come with old boats to my workshop, the motive the boat is not only to be retained, separates also the memories of the childhood. ”The grandfather bought the boat... for 300, - crowns!” It costs more it to repair, but it is to be retained for the descendants.

Wood boats have a soul, say some. That is possible. I consider sometimes, whether one arrives later with plastic boats, around it to repair ”because the boat of the grandmother heard”.

For a while I was employed with the north land museum as craftsmen, supervision man and leaders for the old person commercial place Kjerringøy. The work was versatile. Gabaeude, boats and thousands of articles should be maintained and retained for the future. The commercial place should be presentiert in an alive and historically correct way for a constantly growing public. After 12 years I saw that the work was so extensive that it only few.

Opportunity gave to deepen me into my large passion i.e. boats builds. A vital decision was seized!

Today I am established as boat farmer and independent entrepreneurs. My boat workshop has two departments. In ”the Zahlfjøsen” I rent a restaurant for the building of small north land boats and other rowing boats. Besides I have a traditional boat workshop established to the building of north land boats over 6m. In this workshop I can build also small blockhouses, a handicraft, which has much with the boat building in common.

I explain gladly mean to visitors the building and the use of north land boats. The technical terms and designations in connection with these boats is to be turned out in danger in oblivion. But if the visitors know the difference ”between” Færing ”and” Fembøring, if they leave Kjerringøy, are anyhow something from the old knowledge passed on.