Shipbuilding

I just visited my brother in law who wanted to show me his latest enterprise - a new aft deckhouse. This is the old one that is to be replaced

The ship, called Skibladner II used to sail cement from Aalborg Portland to building sites around Scandinavia. It is now owned by a boy and girl scout organization in Copenhagen, and the State foundation for the Preservation of Sailing Ships has together with some other foundations paid for the reconstruction of the ship back to its original form. This is the first thing that needed to be replaced.

Underneath the deckhouse is the skippers cabin, a very austere place, with a table for maps and navigation and this bunk.

This skylight is the only light in the cabin - as you can see on the top picture it is covered with cloth here.

Here is the new deckhouse. The frame and bottom is made from oak tree, the walls are lark, and the deck on top is pine - just like it was done 150 years ago.

Everything is joined so the construction will bind together under stress and so the water will run onto the deck and not into the ship. The joinery i very complicated and clever.

And a some details of the joinery.

The new skylight is being built in oak tree as. The strange angle on the left is the model that was sent to the Sail Ship Foundation to get the profiles approved.

As with all the other parts the skylight is constructed so the water will run of and not into the ship.

I do not put images of my children or other family-members on the public internet, and the kids were everywhere, so I do not have an image of the master ship builder himself, but I found this image on the wharf website - so here he is: Chris Domino Larsen.