Sailing Yacht Rulten: October 2014

26 October 2014

Slutten av sommerferien

Det ble lang ventetid, men likevel.

Bading i Skagerak

På Arøya førte Rulten festflagg i anledning Serines bursdag.

Natt på Arøya

Noah og Serine bak roret

Med bølger er det kjekt å ha en vinsj å kose med

Havnen på Østre Bolæren

Eks. Fuglehuk fyr fra overvåkingstårnet på Bolærne

Her satt Kystartelerister og passa på alle som seilte inn og ut av Oslofjorden.

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Årets siste tur gikk til Horten

Karljohansvern

Tiltross for det som jeg oppfattet som vindstille var det noen som drev å øvde seiling med genakker utenfor Holmestrand.

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S/Y Rulten

Rulten is a Hanse 345, yard number 127.

I took delivery of the yacht at the yard in Germany on April 24th 2014 and started my career as a sailor bringing her home with the help two more seasoned sailors.

The yacht is 10 m (34 feet) long, 3.5 m wide with a draft of 1,9 m and an air draft of almost 17 m. Without me onboard she weighs 6,2 tonnes.

Her name is originally the name of a 1065 m high mountain on Austvågøya in Lofoten. But for me the name comes from the family past. The fishing company Elvenes Notkompani was established and owned by my great great grand father and his sons, even my great grand father before he left to start his own business. In 1911 this company bought the purse seiner D/S Gadus and renamed it D/S Rulten and it was registered as N-15 SO in the fishing boat registry (of Sortland municipality). My family owned D/S Rulten until 1934 and the boat continued sailing for other owners until 1954. It even has its steam engine replaced with a diesel.