We, which become we for the north land boat swarms, often as fanatics regarded. There are not nevertheless better motorboats, better sailing boats and easier Ruderboote.Und too forgotten, security to lake nevertheless we finds rarely boats, which unite several characteristics as perfectly as the north land boat. It is easy to rudders and one can it arrange, ever after like one uses it moechte.Es is a fast and good sailing boat, particularly with racing gel, for which it was built originally. In addition, is excellent for schratsegel, if it is built for it.

As motorboat the hull has its delimitation, but as easily a Fembøring ”slides” there with 7-8 knots travel only with the help of a small auxiliary engine. And straight this possibility of uniting the desired characteristics in this boat makes this work so fascinating. Here also the reason is appropriate for it that the north land boat was built along half of the Norwegian coast and used, always for the appropriate climate and need adapted.

Who understood the north land boat as a uniform form in different sizes, the splendid variety did not understand. Around a basic form, which is described in proportionality factors and lines of sight, the boat farmer forges a hull, which is adapted to the need of the buyer.

The characteristics of the hull stand in the relationship to each other and the variations limit them. A particularly leichtgerudertes boat can become a dangerous sailing boat. A north land boat with good carrying characteristics becomes a boat, that heavily rudders is not as fast and as a slim boat. And security on board depends like also with all other boats on the experience the crew and on the understanding.

The building of a north land boat.

The tradition of the building of the north land boats had almost disappeared, when a few craftsman again took up this work. For the continuation of the tradition, one can say, happened this in the last minute ”of the historical daily ” of the north land boat. The north land boat was in several decades neither as leisure boat nor as fischerboot in use. From time to time times a small boat was pulled on beautiful summer evenings from the bootshaus, in order to fish something. Or completely rarely once did not segelte ”Åttring” past to understand beautifully to look at however.

Toward end of the siebzieger years the interest was again aroused only in such a way, but only as leisure boat. Even the Danes studied the north land boat and compared its sail characteristics with the Wikingerschiffen. And this happened, before the Norwegians themselves recovered the faith in the excellentness of their north land boats. But the north land boat experienced its Renaissance parallel with a rising understanding for the meaning of the coastal culture. And again the basis was created for the building and sales of north land boats.

Do you have to buy before a north land boat ?

Then you are to know that there are two categories, the traditionally built and the imitations. In order to save the work and costs, which are connected to work on roots some boat farmer to laminates seized. Others simplified the transition between Kiel and steven and connected these construction units with glue knees, under what however the Stabilitet suffers opposite the grown Stevenholz. For the eye it looks perhaps still beautiful, but if one wishes a traditionally built boat, one should examine all details, exactly e.g. the number of planks, the schergang, the Schandeckel and the like and first of all the line play and the form.