sailing the farm collective - wanna join??

Discussion in 'Communal Living' started by zeyang, Jun 26, 2010.

  1. zeyang

    zeyang Member

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    we are a bunch of people running a sailing/boatbuilding coop with the intention of sailing around the world as a sailing community.
    If its a success we plan to built more of similar type of boats, but sofar at this stage we are building a prototype to see if this will be a success or not.
    If you are interested in joining please feel free to contact us. The boat is being build on a wwoof farm north of Oslo, Norway. there are beds available.
    There will be farming also (mostly as an apiary farm) but these days focus is mostly boatbuilding.
    Fairly young poeople have joined mostly from Europe but we strive to have equal opportunity and invite all sort of people,age race, religous background, skills to join. Food is mostly vegetarian. (90%) Foodmaking is based on turns. we try to eat as healthy as possible and do grow some part of the food in our garden.
    You really dont need to have any prior boatbuilding or sailing experience. We will teach you all you need to learn.
    What is more important is your ability to live on the high seas for weeks at a time. (some love/some hate this of course)
    Want more information or pictures?
    send us an email to:
    (zeyang(at)laowai.no

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  2. blinkin

    blinkin Senior Member

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    we may have spoken before. Im drew from the highway child tribe. we have been more into buses and land touring. recently we decided to change focus and purchas a 35 ft bluewater and take it around the world.

    I was just about to post a new thread concerning that. ....

    Ill leave you at the wheel with this concept on this site.

    we do colaborate with many different tribes and groups around the globe what you are doing lines up exactly with our direction. contact me at bustribe@yahoo.com
    of we have ahighway child tribe facebook page aswell.

    peace...happy highway...er ocean....

    please fwd any info you have....wow...Im impressed.
     
  3. KevinH

    KevinH Just Floating Here

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    I live on a sailboat in Philadelphia-rebuilt most of it.

    If you guys have any problems or questions feel free to ask.
     
  4. zeyang

    zeyang Member

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    thanks, but no problem reg. competition :)
    we dont have anyone from US interest in this project. its mostly people from europe.

    Z
     
  5. Olympic-Bullshitter

    Olympic-Bullshitter Banned

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    This is serious boatbuilding, full of big, heavy, curvy things...and not for the faint of heart. Boatbuilding skills are but half of the personal resources needed to complete a project of this scope. The remaining portion is composed of some combination of patience and resourcefulness. In other words, managing the project is as important as welding skill. Try and find, Design and Build your own Junk Rig by Derek Van Loan (3rd edition) or Practical Junk Rig by H.G. Hasler & J.K. McLeod. http://junkrigassociation.org/ You'll want a bowsprit to fly a crab sail. In gale force conditions...with the mainsail reefed down to one panel and the foresail tied down snugly...it balances the junk and pulls like a team of wild horses.
     
  6. zeyang

    zeyang Member

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    agree. but everything goes in circle. i thinkin future when youngsters find out that gameboys, internet and hanging ouside the local mcdonald is boring life.
    then building colin archers and sailing around in a sailling commune tribe will be back... hopefully..

    Z
     
  7. Olympic-Bullshitter

    Olympic-Bullshitter Banned

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    One of my favorite sailor superstitions was that the less clothes that the figurehead wore, the luckier the ship. A sailboat must be able to sail well and be handled by the minimun number of crew you can absolutely depend upon, and that number ultimately will be one. In Valentin Sokoloff wonderfully illustrated book Ships of China, he tells us that "A hand crafted sailing ship is a living thing with its own character and charm. A Chinese junk is even more so, and no wonder, as it was invented by an offspring of a nymph and a rainbow." If you can find black bamboo it works for the main mast, fore mast, and battens.
     
  8. zeyang

    zeyang Member

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    thanks. ill try to find.
    aluminium has gone a long way when it comes to being used at sea.
    up here you can find it in offshore oilrigs. huge catferries and tonns of fishing boats.
    i can hardly think of any better material for amateur builders of sailboat making oldfashion clinker style yachts.

    Z
     
  9. zeyang

    zeyang Member

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    Dear Friends.


    Sailing the farm tribe - Mid July 2010.

    At last, the frames are bend into the boat and soon finished welded
    up. That was one long and tedious work but now we are soon moving on
    to a much more exiting stuff - laying down the deck and start work on
    the interior - then also start to sew up the sails for the boat.

    There have been quite a response from last time and august is pretty
    much filled up with people coming up to help on boatbuilding and
    farming. Somehow the romantic touch of roaming the seven seas as a
    wannabe seagypsy seems to attract much more people than we ever
    dreamed of, so hopefully in future we will have more boats built and a
    real seafaring community. At least that is my wet dream!

    Then some farming stuff. The grey cat got 4 kittens some weeks ago,
    some very adorable small kittens. One is looking curious at the
    boatbuilding. Queen-breeding goes forward as planned. I think we will
    manage to more than double amount of hives this year - that is pretty
    good. It would not have been possible without help from a swedish
    boatbuilding girl which seems to fall in love with queenbreeding
    despite quite a few bee-stings during summer. :)

    We have some beds free for september and onwards, so if you are
    interesting in joining this uber-cool sea-gypsy tribe project, feel
    free to contact us!


    Peace and love from
    Sailing-the-farm


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  10. zeyang

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    Sailing the farm tribe - Mid august 2010.

    Dear Friends.

    Its been a busy august. 9 happy boatbuilding girls and guys have been
    here during august and it has been quite busy. We have done quite a
    lot of work on the boatproject and have been workingon important but
    tedious small stuff like watertanks, coolingtank etc.

    We are also working on finding ecovillages on different continent
    which we will be a part of the plan when the journey begins. In short
    we will sail between ecovillages and change crew and stock up with
    food to reach other ecovillages on different continents. if you know
    about some ecovillages close to sea which could be interested in
    participate please inform us.

    But we will try to be as selfsufficient as possible onboard and will
    test a small scale hydrophonic solution to grow vegetables while
    sailing with as little water usage as possible. Not easy on a boat but
    hopefully manage to get some fresh food... (getting enough water is
    always problem on a boat)

    Then some farm news: We are expanding the garden to grow more tasty
    vegetables next year. Even if the fall is coming soon we will try to
    grow some more fast growing salads until snow is coming. Our extremely
    slow growing tomatoes will be moved indoors and continue with help of
    growlamp in our greenhouse. Bees are doing good and we have already
    processed some delicous honey from this year. (pure organic stuff)

    We have some space for late september and onwards if you are
    interested in joining this cool sea-gypsy project. Just drop us a line.


    Peace and love from
    Sailing-the-farm

    Then some pictures. (we are not always working, one picture is a bunch
    of happy boatbuilding guys after swimming in the brrr cold lake)

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  11. zeyang

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    Sailing the farm tribe - Week 34 2010.

    Dear Friends.

    Late august 2010. 6-7 people from europe and south america has been
    here last weeks and we suddenly start to feel that summer is soon
    over. It has been raining almost every day last week but thankfully
    the boatbuilding shed is waterproof.

    We are now working on painting the barn and fixing the roof. Not easy
    when its 15 meter to the top, but with an expert english scaffold girl
    this part goes forward fast. Our small garden is soon ready for
    harvest and we have some blue and rasperry raids into the forest so we
    will hopefully not run out of jam for the next month or so.

    Last week the girls found out that a real boat should have a real
    galleon figure and since one of them are an metal artist she think it
    would be nice to cast it in aluminium. One of the other girls act as a
    model. Sofar it looks nice in plaster, and we look forward to see how
    real it will be in aluminium. That blue plaster stuff is amazing.

    Thanks to everyone who sent us tips for eco villages. Hopefully some
    will be interested in our journey and maybe even want to participate
    in our sea gypsy project.

    We have some space for late september and onwards if you are
    interested in joining this cool sea-gypsy project. Just drop us a line.

    Peace and love from
    Sailing-the-farm

    Pictures from last week: James and Jane Bond with license to screw,
    Miss plasterface (Our female galleon model) and our metal artist
    posing outside the boat.

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  12. zeyang

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    Sailing the farm tribe - Week 36 2010.

    Dear Friends.

    Early september 2010. Summer is for sure over. We have had the first
    day with below 0 degrees now and harvest is around the corner. We
    have had people from UK, Argentina, Australia(!), US, Germany, Spain
    and Sweden here last days.

    Farm-news:

    The bees will be fed sugar next week, so for sure they know that the
    summer is over, and we have been picking/harvest lots and lots of
    berries and some hunded kilo of organic broccoli. Any tips how to eat
    broccoli in different ways is very welcome. Cooked, baked, raw.. you
    name it - we will try it!

    We are still working on the painting the barn/fixing the roof and will
    continue this for the next weeks, also expand the garden for next year
    harvest and will try different kind of seeds which is planted in
    autumn.


    Boatbuilding news.

    The gallion figure goes forward as normal. This is not an easy
    task. Problem is more about how to make it look natural and still
    protected below the bowsprit without beeing crushed in some harbour.
    Since its so close to the winter season we prioritize harvest and
    painting but will be back to more welding and boatbuilding by early
    october.

    If you want to join our cool sea gypsy tribe, please contact us.

    Pictures from last weeks:

    Watching the stars. The gallion figure with head and body. Jumping of
    the straw-bale and how many can sit on a strawbale-contest 2010.

    Peace and love from
    Sailing-the-farm tribe.

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  13. dudeimoncoke

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    This sounds like a really cool idea. I'd love to join you guys for a while. I don't have any sailing/boating skills but I'm a quick learner. My email is dudeimoncoke@gmail.com so if you want to get in touch with me that would be the best way to do it. I'm not going to be able to join you until about a year or so from now so I'm not sure if you'll be full by then.
     
  14. Danbanan

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    Hello Zeyang,

    My name is Daniel and im 18 years old. Currently im on the road hitchhiking my way through the world. I am from Norway and have been travelling for 1 month now. Through Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Slovenia and im now back in france going up to Ireland before i hit the southern parts of spain / Marocco.

    I was hoping if possible i would like to come with on the sailboat. But i cannot go back to Norway yet, so if you want me with you on the boat, you would have to pick me up somewhere along the coast may it be spain, portugal, marocco or somewhere. If this is possible, then im all yours! I dont have much sailing experience, but im a fast learner and i know fishing if that helps out on the ocean.
     
  15. zeyang

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    Sailing the farm tribe - Week 38 2010.

    Dear wannabe sea-gypsies.

    Late september 2010. We have been working on feeding the bees with
    sugar, working on the barn and put seeds into the soil during last 2
    weeks. Its also been raining a lot. Season is at the end for the bees
    and they can happily hibernate (kind of) until spring again. Since its
    so close until snow is coming we prioritize everything which have to
    be done outside now. Hopefully will be back on boatbuilding by
    october.

    Thanks for many cool broccoli receipes. we try to have broccoli every
    day. Not because its so healthy (which it is) but more because we have
    so much of it! Only stuff we havent try yet is broccoli cake!

    If you want to join our cool sea gypsy tribe, please contact us.

    Pictures from last weeks:


    Have no horse!, Feeding the steam-boiler to heat up sugar for bees, 3
    birds on the barn-roof (which is 15 meter up). gallion-figure in clay.


    Peace and love from
    Sailing-the-farm tribe.




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  16. zeyang

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    Sailing the farm tribe - October 2010.

    Dear wannabe sea-gypsies.

    Late october 2010. Still no snow, which is kind of strange, but we are
    happy. It has been a quite a busy october with more than 10 people
    here almost all the time so it is a little crowded during dinner-time.
    But ofcourse very nice. We have spent most of the time painting up
    the barn and fixing the roof and we are now very close to finish up
    this step.

    But we are not always working, during weekend it has been apple
    picking so the cellar is stuffed with yoummy apple/cinnamon jam.

    We will be back to serious boatbuilding when last part of the barn
    roof is fixed so stay tuned.

    If you want to join our cool sea gypsy tribe, please contact us.


    Pictures from last weeks: Pretty crowded around breakfast table,indoor
    fishing, the cat found a soft couch, happy workers on the roof.


    Peace and love from
    Sailing-the-farm tribe.



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  17. zeyang

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    Sailing the farm tribe - late November 2010.

    Dear wannabe sea-gypsies.

    Sailing the Farm late November 2010. The snow has arriwed, its -10C
    outside but warm inside the farm-hosue . We managed to finish up the
    barn just in time before the snow arrived, and we are back on the
    boat.

    These days we have been working on making a small scale sails in 1/10
    with junkrig. Its cheaper to mistakes in 1/10 than in original
    version. We are not really happy about the sail-construction yet so
    the plan now is to put on on a model and see how it works, before we
    start to sew up the big sails.

    Also started the slow process of melding down lead to ingots. We
    probably need 5-6 tonns of lead so its a long way to go.

    If you want to join our cool sea gypsy tribe, please contact us.

    Pictures from last weeks: The chinese eskimo-girl sorting out
    scraplead for ballast. Sail-sewing girl is making model-sails for
    testing. Painting bee-hives for next summer. All will be
    green. The Boat with 2 mast and junk-rig.

    Peace and love from
    Sailing-the-farm tribe.

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  18. PurpByThePound

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    This is so incredibly awesome. If I could, I would get on this in a heartbeat. That would be so awesome to have a whole fleet of ships sailing around together
     
  19. Amontillado

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    You can look up "junk rig" on Wikipedia and get an explanation of why it's designed the way it is, and how it's sailed.

    Hopefully anyone on the crew who's working with lead is taking precautions against getting poisoned by it.
     

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