As the nights cooled more and more as we went south but the water temp stayed warm, we started to have river fog for an hour or two every morning, not to mention a hell of a lot of condensation inside our boat tent which would drip on us during the night unless I lay on my back and used a towel at 2 am and 6 am to wipe it off! You can see Connie emerging from the boat tent in this photo; a great alternative to taking everything off the boat and camping on shore.
See more pictures and read of Gary and Connie Hoffman’s 1100-mile voyage down the rivers of mid-America at the Norseboat Owner’s Site.
Beautiful shot of a Norseboat ‘with a bone in her teeth.’ French sea photographer Jean Marie Liot shot this Norseboat 17.5 sailing near La Rochelle, France - October 2007.
These great pics were sent to me by Charles Boyer de Bouillane, who sails his Norseboat 17.5 Natsiq in his lovely home waters of southern France. Unlike most of us daysailors, Charles and his wife make full use of the camp cruising capabilities of the boat.
Thanks for clicking over to have a look. There is a growing gallery of photos, and for registered users (you don’t need to be an owner to register) there is a discussion forum and an owner director/map area.
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.
The new Norseboat 12.5 has been announced! She is a cute baby sister to the standard 17.5′ model. You can vote for her in SAIL’s boat-of-the-year contest here.
We kicked off Memorial Day Weekend with a cold, overcast fishing trip to Santa Cruz. Sea conditions were mild, and the 2.5nm row out to the reef was warming.
After about 45 seconds of fishing with the new Point Wilson Dart, we hooked up this undersized little rockfish.
Annika soon hooked herself this little Ling, which we likewise threw back.
Some sealions entertained us in a kelp bed on our way back. We also saw jellies, seals, dolphin, and a sea otter.
Still chilly as we arrive in harbor.
The new rec/racing cat Lightspeed 32 was rigging in the parking lot. I had read about it in Latitude 38, it looked like a fast and very high quality boat.
First fish caught from Searaven. This rockfish was pulled out of Monterey bay today, about 2.5nm from Santa Cruz Harbor, my launch point. I was under oars-only, and is was a warm, shorts-and-tshirt day, with very light winds. Perhaps it was the Ulua shirt I was wearing that helped my luck!
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