Sailing Yacht Rulten: Brekstad sommerturens siste stopp

26 December 2017

Brekstad sommerturens siste stopp

Siste etappen på dagens ferie ble de 18 nm fra Knarrlagsund fra til Brekstad, men mine forsøk på å krysse meg fram gjorde at turen ble mer enn 21 nm. Tilslutt ga jeg opp og gikk for motor fra siste timen.

Det er ikke bare luftforsvarets falker som passer på oss i Brekstad, men på Austrått (ved på en kolle ved siden av slottet) satte tyskerne opp C-tårnet fra Gneisenau under krigen.

Turen ble på 454,5 nm

Kart for turen:Slepespor sommeren 2017

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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.