Stian begins preparing the gunwales for the ribs


Tor-Erik working on his gunwales



Fitting the kayak: Anders with Jarle


Tor-Erik, Jarle, and Anders











Stian is building an East Greenland kayak.






Getting the gunwales angled in.



Pegging. No nails are used. No metal at all will be in the finished kayak.



Magne shapes some ribs



Anders and Ragnar


The decks are beginning to take shape.


Twisting in the gunwales on Stian's kayak



Marking deck beams











Tor-Erik sawing a deck beam.


Magne doing some lashing, using linen thread coated with beeswax.





Drilling holes for pegging the beams





Tor-Erik hammers in a peg.


Lesson Plans






In building a kayak, symmetry is everything! Notice that the beams are lashed as well as pegged.



During our two weeks in Brønnøysund, we stayed at two different cabins. To get to either cabin, you hang a right at the tractor eggs...


then drive down a road that quickly changes to a dirt lane lined with wildflowers.


This was our first cabin.


It really had great views!




















Our second cabin was really nice, too, and not far from the first one.


It had tons of snuggly sheepskins...






A massive dining table






And a kerosene lantern.





Of course there was a bedroom, but there was also a sleeping loft, called a "hems"


This is a building adjacent to our cabin