Sailing Yacht Rulten: And then the weather was (really) nice again

02 August 2020

And then the weather was (really) nice again

August 2nd Lurøy - Tjøtta

Left Lurøy in dead calm, but after i while the wind filled in. And I got some hours of nice sailing.

The weather was well suited to admire some of the mountains that has inspired a fairytale. Especially the Seven Sisters on Alsten.

In fact the weather was so nice that the skipper dared to immerse his body in the normally cold waters of the Norwegian sea.

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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.