Greetings all Steemians!
I hope you all have a fantastic Saturday. Today I want to share a photo of my model boat, handmade in the 80s. I won this in a raffle when I was a little kid, and it is one of my most priced possessions. The boat type it is a model of is called a Nordland boat (In Norwegian: Nordlandsbåt).
Nordland boats has been used for centuries in the northern parts of Norway and its name comes from Nordland county. Nordland boats are closely related to the old Viking longships. It has a long tradition as a fishing boat, but today they are primarily used as pleasure crafts. Nordland boats has a clinker hull design, with the rudder on the sternpost. Length varies, from smaller 14ft boats up to the larger ones that can be well over 40ft. The smaller boats has a single square sail. The larger boats also has a topsail. My model is what they call a "Åttring", which in its full size is about 34ft long.
Source and more information: Wikipedia (English) / Wikipedia (Norwegian)
Photo taken, by me, with my Motorola Moto G4 Plus smartphone.
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