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Picture from Tysnes Around . This has become an annual event since 1996.
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Launching May 19,1997
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Start and end was the quay in Årbakka.
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Out The Onarheimsfjord. The crew came from Western Norway, Eastern
Norway and Canada. It's not an easy boat to row and was at times among the last ones.
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Departure from Neshamn, after a well deserved rest, coffee and newly made waffles.
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It's good to arrive at Våge, to more rest, more waffles and coffee - and we even had
time for a visit at Mandelhuset.
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Sunday morning - early. Departure from the idyllic Solstråle island.
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The Laromsboat going through the beautiful canal at Lunde.
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En route from Stussvik to Ulvenes and the boathouse.
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Ladrumsbåt from Ulvenes in Ølve, Hordaland.
This boat is a very seldom type. In Hordaland, the ladrums- or larumsboat was used for shipping small freight
such as farm products to town, bring sheep to their pastures, get back hay from outer fields and a lot more. The
boat was also used as a fishing boat.
After 1850 this type of boat was replaced by bigger boats, normally
by a Lister inspired boat type. The Horda museum and the Sunnhordland Folkemuseum have each their ladrumsbåt,
the shark boat which was on the middle pages in KYSTEN 1-1993 and which is also built as the ladrumsboat. The boat
at Horda museum and the shark boat both had gaff sails (sprit sails).
The present boat is the fourth, others are not known. The boat
is wide hulled, and is obviously built to carry a lot of freight. It can be rowed with 5 pairs of oars, but two
pairs of oarlocks are not fitted into the gunnel and the oars can thus easily be taken away to load the boat, or
if it's used for fishing. Then it's good to have two spaces with a smooth gummel so that nets don't get hung up
in something. The freight rooms have hull frames without boards (Lasterummene har band uten bete). With freight
or fishing gear in the hull, there's room for two rowers in the fore ship and one behind the freight.
We don't know when or where the boat was built, but it's a Strandebarm
type and I would guess that to be a Ladrumsbåt it's rather late, it may have been built in the 1870-80.s
for someone who didn't want to have a new and heavy storebåt (big boat) The weather can be rather rough near
the boathouse at Ulvenes, so that it was important to have a boat that wasn't too heavy.
The craftmanship is elegant and good material has been used.
The boat is built with four boards and a keelson, and it has cut off stems (stem=front, stern=back).The last time
the boat was used was to carry sheep, so that railings had been nailed up on it.
The owner wanted to use his boat on sea again. So it was necessary
to go over the seams, coat it with tar and take off the railings. And thus the boat was ready to participate in
the rowing tour around Tysnes in 1997. As expected it was not really easy to row it, as it has got too much the
shape of a freight boat for that.
The rig is made of a sprit sail and a jib. It's a typical rig
for its use as a utility boat, not too big. The choise of material for the sail is rather special. The woven fabric
is, no doubt, cotton or maybe linen, this is not peculiar, it's the weft which is particular. It's not the ordinary
two thread pattern that we normally find in a sail cloth. This cloth is not the same on each side and a three shaft
has probably been used.
The three shaft weaving technique was used for sail cloth both
in the middle ages and later, but as far as I know, this weft is not known as having been used for sails made of
linen or cotton. For gaff sails that have firm sides, it's convenient to have two different sides, but this is
difficult to explain for sprit sails and jibs. The cloth seems to have been woven on a machine. My guess, so far,
is that it was meant for another use, probably clothes, and that the sail maker used it instead, lacking ordinary
sail cloth at the time.
The sails are rather well preserved, but not strong enough to
be used. The mast and the bowsprit were in the boat house, but the mizzen and the spanker boom were not to
be found. There's an iron holding , and a solid clog on a thwart for the mast's setup.
Since this boat is particularly unique, it's been agreed that
it should be used with great care, and otherwise be well looked after. It would be exciting if someone needing
a fairly big boat for tours, built a fullrigged copy of it, so that we could also see what the boat would
be like with sails , with and without freight.
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