Hello David,
Here are some pics showing “Natsiq”, our n°43 Norseboat sailing in France.
We did appreciate how the Norseboat’s hull goes easily (keeping us dry) through the waves (up to 1m, when speedy huge motorboats cross our ride), around Med’ coast.
You can post some as you like in your nice website: “Neversealand”.
You can view some other in “www.norseboat.fr” (go to “récentes navigations”, “photos”, “2 Norseboats en Méditerranée”): [link] we went sailing with Norseboat n°54 along French Riviera “Côte d’Azur”.
Did you sail your Norseboat this Summer?Take care,
Charles,
from south of France.
Thanks for the pictures, Charles! I am glad you are having fun. Indeed, I find that the Norseboat’s excellent ability to handle steep chop and boat wakes is one of it’s most practical features.
This has been the summer of rowing for Searaven, and the centerboard has been out of her as part of an upgrade. On older Norseboats, the centerboard is a bit loose in the trunk and when the wind is slack and the boat is rolling it bangs and makes the trunk flex, and one worries about the trunk-floor joint. I understand these problems have been fixed now, but this summer we took out the centerboard, hogged out a big space and made a lead weight to make the centerboard heavier. What we didn’t know was that the centerboard is itself filled with a kind of putty that has small lead pellets in it. The lead weight (about 12 lbs, 5 kg) was epoxied in place, faired and painted. I made some clamps so that the forward thwart can be fixed to the rails, and there are angle irons on the bottom of the thwart that keep the trunk from flexing. All this strengthening was with an eye toward accomplishing my long-time dream of sailing Searaven from Santa Cruz to Monterey, 22 nm across the open ocean.
More pictures of Natsiq:
Click the picture below to see a large gallery of two Norseboats sailing the Med — fantastic! The parent page for other photo galleries is here.
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