Onderwerp: sailing the farm - a seagypsy tribe of tomorrow.

Newsletter March 2015. .

Dear Sea Gypsies,

First, apology for delayed newsletter. The winter has been a busy one
and it hasn't been that much time to keep up with the Newsletter, but
we must say we are superhappy to get so many postcards and hear from
all of you volunteers who have been here.....

To be Norway its been quite a mild winter, the good thing is that
heating has been running minside the boat whole winter so we have
hardly felt the cold outside - a good test to see if our heating
system inside the boat is ready to stand up for sailing in Antarctica.

The sun is starting to heat up the farm and us slowly, the last week
we really can feel the spring is coming. Our chicken is happy outside
during daytime and seems to enjoy the sun as much as we do.

Our metal working skills and diesel engine skills (mostly lack of) has
been put to a test. We are more or less been busy doing brainsurgery
on our 500 kg spare diesel engine to check how it looks inside and
learning how those are working. Those parts we think will stop working
will be brought onboard, (spare waterpumps, piston rings, gaskets etc)
It gives a good feeling to know how that machine is working and even
if we are a sailors, one day we will be happy to be pushed up the
Amazon river or other places with the help of that engine . The one
we will use seems to seems to be ok (we have been testing diesel
injectors, compressions etc on the farm) The good thing bringing such
test-equipment means we can help other volunteer-farms whith diesel
engine problems...

Rigging the boat is also on the list, since we make mostly everything
ourselves we will make our own woodblocks for the rig. Its a classical
gaff-rig with around 105 m2 sails which will be our main propulsion.
It will be quite interesting when we are doing the sea trail to see if
its well balanced.. hopefully our calculation is correct and it wont
sail upside down or backwards as someone is thinking....

If you want to join us sailing around the world or helping up on the
farm please dont hesitate to contact us. Here are some pictures from
last months pluss a nice ones from last summer/autumn which shows how
real Norway looks like. (that is the westcoast)

Lastly we wish you all a happy spring.

Love from sailing the farm
A seagypsy tribe of tomorrow.


Pictures.

a: The woofers hiking to troll-tunga summer 2014 (westcoast norway)
b: Our engine. (sabb 2j) There is a video of it running on youtube.

c: chickens on they way out to enjoy the spring sun.

And plenty more pictures for the last years can be found here.
instagram.com/sailingthefarm/

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Een aluminium Colin Archer helemaal zelf bouwen.
Ze bestaan toch nog, mensen die dromen tot waarheid brengen.
Was ik 45 jaar jonger ging ik gelijk meewerken.

Thanks for this post, seen your work, it upgrades the level of this forum

Alles virusvrij? Merkwaardige 1e post.

La Mavare schreef :
Ook merkwaardige reactie, heb je geen viruscanner?

Is er eindelijk een post met veel info, krijg je dit weer..

Chinese naam, geen info in profiel ... ik klik niet op plaatjes van mensen die ik niet ken.

Maar sorry voor mijn wantrouwen en niet zeuren als je binnenkort merkt dat je gehackt bent.

La Mavare schreef :
Rare reactie... google eens op zeyang Sea Gypsies





CeesH

Hier een link naar de club die de alu Colin archer bouwt. www.workaway.info/13959847844c-en.html
Misschien iets voor LamaVare om daar eens een maandje vrijwilligerswerk te doen?

Lamarvare:
Nogal paranoia lijkt me, gehaktdag is pas woensdag dus we hebben nog even de tijd om ons te beraden.

had die bootbouwer niet eigenlijk beter metselaar kunnen worden?

we are no virus unless you can call a group of sea gypsies building their own boat virus.

Anyone helping building will get a chance to come sailig with us. (we are located in beautiful norway)

some more.

then some more

So sorry, first thought is not allways the best.

Hope your project will succeed.

I sail many times to Norway, this year to Aalesund, Mandal and Kristiansand.
If your farm was close by I would certainly pay a visit.

Sunday schreef :
2 linker handen

Impressive zeyang!

La Mavare schreef :
Respect, you are a captain.

Mijn 1e schoonzoon had 2 rechterhanden
hij was helaas links...

more pictures.

Wow.

You look like a very enthousiastic group of young people.

I especially enjoyed the pics of the girls doing "men's jobs". Proves that that s useless qualification!

I also watched you instagram page. Looks like you guys are doing a fine job! And building in Aluminium... Not so easy. Especially the welding is complicated. But it seems you guys got that covered.

But for my own reference... Why are you posting on a Dutch forum? What help could we be to y'all?

Nice work! Read about your project on Facebook, really cool to see you guys here too

Joop66 schreef :
we need more guys
the genderbalance is not good on the farm. mostly female volunteers are coming.

Unfortunately I am a whitecollar Hippie. The kind of Hippie that needs to work to survive...

boarderbas schreef : Well, according to the pictures, they have more than enough work for you!

we dont run of out work at the moment. will keep us busy 8 hours a day until boat is finished.