small boat drooling

[mizzenman]

To balance out some of the tri-videos...

http://www.gkf.info/

Click "Segling" at the top, then "Gkf:s flotta" at the left.

[yorgie]

The site is in swedish.The 'g' following a vowel is silent so 'segling' is pronounced something like sailing 'sailing'.If you can figure out the pronounciation of the words almost all nautical terms become clear.

By the way,thanks for the link Mizzenman.I've been reading alot of Martin Beck detective novels lately so I'm feeling in tune with my scandinavian side.

Chris

[Rick Starr]

Well that's interesting, and largely new to me. I am intruigued by these...

http://www.gkf.info/Kanotsegling/Kanoter/anitra/kanot_anitra.jpg

[Tom Lathrop]

Most all of these boats must have a ballast keel since they look narrow of beam with lots of saill area and the crew is mostly sitting down inside. Most are double enders also which means they are mostly limited to displacement speed.

Beautiful boats.

[mizzenman]

The D-class is 20' long has a barlast of about 600 lbs bolted to the outside of the hull and a sailarea of about 130 sqft