As I come from a wooden boat building family in Malta I can appreciate all this to great dept. It is said that the chalking mallet had a cut in it so that the repetitive sound would not be so hard on the chalkers ears and it would ring out a more pleasant note, but alas many of the chalkers went deaf. Great workmanship which takes me back seventy years where I helped my uncle shape the planks for the sides. He occasionally trusted me with cutting a frame with its complex angles and curves.
I take my hat off to European shipbuilding from the past as Australia where I live would not of been settled without their sturdy well built craftmanship .
You are welcome, everyone! I am so glad you like it. I think it's a fascinating story and to me the ship is an enchanting vision of a more romantic and nostalgic era when genuine workmanship and quality was valued.
Sofie A Ohøj dear Sofie.. Those days with your romantic values never existed! The rich Swedish owners had such a life.. No one else involved in building or sailing this huge ship had such values or lifestyle. It was nothing else than an ordinary hard job with long working days & maybe 1/2 day off weekly! Low wages, often alcohol involved, living in primitive housing with many children. Life span typical 35 - 40 years.. The seaman was often kidnapped when no one wanted to hire & once out of harbour nowhere to go for months until next harbour & often two year's before entering mother land! If he survived. Imagine what could happen at home with no contact in two years.. "The days where ship was out of wood, and men out of steel" wasn't just a saying! Try search for "Pamir" or "Shackleton's Journey" or read "two years before the mast". All gives real impression of those days unbelievable harsh life at sea..! -Even today, some issues hasn't changed that much ;) Thx a lot for the upload!
he was write so many people who had to work very hard back then steel and miners moulding iron and steel men and women to I would not want to go back then
Many people work hard in our times too, but of course you are right in that romantic dreaming of times past tends to ignore the harsh and oftentimes downright terrible lives that poor people had to endure, people who had almost no rights and who were often on the brink of starvation and abused by the upper classes upon whom they were almost totally dependent.
Sofie I love you so much. I love shipbuilding so much and I've been doing this job, and now I envy the one who deals with this business and I'm jealous of the shipbuilders. I am a coworker of welders I know all metal jobs but I do not have anywhere else to work ... I would only love to work. if someone asks me for some help, they do not have to pay me. I like to work. Thanks
Thank you for uploads. these traditional trades are so magnificent ! So much goes into building just one . Understandably the ocean sailing ships off the modern times must have safety considerations such as fire prevention, and extinguishers, water tight bulkheads and motors, but the system of building has not changed much. Thank you again and three HUZZAH's to all !!
i worked in a small boat shop in the 1950,s we biult 6 80 ft boats for the canadian government they are still in operation i worked inthe lofting room above the office making full sized petterns i wrked on in stalling the 2x6 oak ribs the they were planked with 2" select fir it was the most satisfying job i ever worked on
I remember the moment she first hit water. My school did an excursion on one of the paddan boats, just to watch it. Pretty cool to think back to it now.
Apasionante trabajo la construcción de barcos de madera, así como las técnicas llevadas a cabo por los carpinteros de rivera, con la maestría de siglos de experiencia llevados a cabo por los maestros para construir estas maravillas flotantes.."
Rudolf S Add to that a pride in their work, and care for their reputation, that every normal master, artisan and worker has, and we're beginning to paint a picture of the matter in the three comments made so far in this thread.
I don't understand why they didn't build a Yawl boat for this instead of mounting engines. Such a beautiful ship, and I think would have been even more so without the propellers.
The engines where a required safety feature - They had to put it in to get rated as a seaworthy vessel with and comply with insurance regulations for that type of ship. Most of the era replicas can never go out on open sea because they fail to comply with modern safety standards. It's a compromise; Do you want a 100% authentic build that sits pretty in the harbor or do you modify it to rate as a commercial sea vessel?
an absolutely wonderful creation, how unfortunate its building and launching was not more publicized here in Canada well done Sweden.now if you can deal with the immigrant imposed upon your people i would be really impressed
so sad that Götheborg will stay next ten years at pier. And it think that it is not going to sail never again becose after ten years without active service with yards and sails they wont work.
Great series but GAH! That annoys me so much that they went through such painstaking work to make it look old fashioned, even using old fashioned methods... Then stuck an engine and props on it... At THAT point they might as well have taken a modern ship and just bolted planks on the sides and a couple of masts on it. Boom, just as authentic.
No, a modern ship with an engine is not 'as authentic' as one built using the old methods and materials. This is a very authentic ship, but it has an engine due to safety concerns since it is travelling on the high seas with lots of people on board. The same goes for life-saving equipment. I don't think most people would like to be stuck on the high seas during a storm with no modern life-saving equipment. The ship itself is built just as they did it back then, using the same materials, with a few modern security additions.
+Nicholas Kindig The whole idea was to build a real ocean sailing vessel, not a replica for a museum. Today's ships MUST comply a large number of international safety and environmental requirements for the ship's structure, equipment and crew to get a classification for ocean sailing. Ships are not allowed to visit foreign ports outside their designated sailing area. While some other 1700's replica ships may be more "authentic", they are classified for coastal or "insea" sailing only. A sailing replica ship is always a compromise. Nobody expects anyone to sail with 18th century nautical charts, without any tide tables or weather forecasts, without any communication equipment, wearing 1700's clothing and no life-saving equipment whatsoever. Even the essential tools for celestial navigation, the sextant (optical instrument) and marine chronometer (needed for determining the longitude) were invented in mid 1700's, but most seafarers of that time used more clumsy and inaccurate instruments for determining the position.
Nicholas Kindig Ohøj romantic landlubbers. As mentioned in the documentation much of the modern installation was due to modern safety regulations! Otherwise She would just be another floating museum not allowed to leave its safe harbour.. Modern comfort is simply common sense & makes Her useful many years ahead.. Try imagine yourself 20-30 days ocean sailing with unpredictable wind & no protection merciless delivered to any harsh conditions as snow, frost, fog, rain & hail along with ongoing meter high sea and daily forced to climb 30 meter mast..? Despite any personal condition & readiness! It's not only a question of comfort, but necessary lifesaving installations & equipment..
Norway made a big longship called ''The Dragon'' and they sailed across the Atlantic to the US. It was like in the old days but the crew has modern clothing at least. That i suspect would be a real challenge..
Zaratustrov It was a choice because of modern technology installed! Lots of traditional boats are build without these technical features.. Search the Internet for information, instead of sharing your failing knowledge on thousand years old successfully craftsmanship..!
paanikki Risking their life's on the ocean because of some landlubbers high thoughts on tradition instead of modern (logical) safety standards..? Have you ever been sailing on the Atlantik with some 15 days to next safe coast..?
What is this ship going to be used for. I saw some old cannons, I hope this ship is actually useful, not some musuem or replica tallship to show people how they sailed 200 yrs ago. The should use this ship to deliver food, freight or what ever is needed around the world. I think all ships & boats should be powered by the wind & assisted with electric motors that are powered by solar panels & wind generators. We don't need gasoline or diesel engines on the ocean anymore. They even have developed a four dr & 4 passenger solar car that can go 400 miles on a full charge of its batteries, & can propel itself by the solar panels alone, to speeds of 60-80 mph. The electric motor is attached to a 7 speed transmission, to help conserve energy. Nissan has a 70 lbs 3 cylinder diesel engine that makes 400 h.p. which could be used in airplanes for hybrid diesel/electric. Seimens has 100lbs e-motors that put out 300 h.p. they can be matted together to produce double the h.p. with a prop. Imagine a big plane with e-motors double up & with a prop, 1200 h.p on each wing 2400 total h.p, & solar panels covering the topside of the wings & fuselage, along with 2 nissan diesel engines matted to high output generators/altenators to create energy for the e-motors. Their will be no need to take mother earths blood anymore, or at least not as much.
+TrueBlogge777 SOLAS convention (United Nations) was signed by over 160 states all over the world, including most countries in the 3rd world. So, the regulations are not swedish, nordic or european. The ship classification organisations have also other rules that go beyond the regulations of the original SOLAS.
Thank you for uploading these videos.
It is so great to see that all these traditional trades still exist.
As I come from a wooden boat building family in Malta I can appreciate all this to great dept. It is said that the chalking mallet had a cut in it so that the repetitive sound would not be so hard on the chalkers ears and it would ring out a more pleasant note, but alas many of the chalkers went deaf.
Great workmanship which takes me back seventy years where I helped my uncle shape the planks for the sides. He occasionally trusted me with cutting a frame with its complex angles and curves.
I take my hat off to European shipbuilding from the past as Australia where I live would not of been settled without their sturdy well built craftmanship .
You are welcome, everyone! I am so glad you like it. I think it's a fascinating story and to me the ship is an enchanting vision of a more romantic and nostalgic era when genuine workmanship and quality was valued.
Sofie A Ohøj dear Sofie.. Those days with your romantic values never existed!
The rich Swedish owners had such a life.. No one else involved in building or sailing this huge ship had such values or lifestyle. It was nothing else than an ordinary hard job with long working days & maybe 1/2 day off weekly! Low wages, often alcohol involved, living in primitive housing with many children. Life span typical 35 - 40 years..
The seaman was often kidnapped when no one wanted to hire & once out of harbour nowhere to go for months until next harbour & often two year's before entering mother land! If he survived. Imagine what could happen at home with no contact in two years..
"The days where ship was out of wood, and men out of steel" wasn't just a saying!
Try search for "Pamir" or "Shackleton's Journey" or read "two years before the mast". All gives real impression of those days unbelievable harsh life at sea..!
-Even today, some issues hasn't changed that much ;)
Thx a lot for the upload!
he was write so many people who had to work very hard back then steel and miners moulding iron and steel men and women to I would not want to go back then
Many people work hard in our times too, but of course you are right in that romantic dreaming of times past tends to ignore the harsh and oftentimes downright terrible lives that poor people had to endure, people who had almost no rights and who were often on the brink of starvation and abused by the upper classes upon whom they were almost totally dependent.
Sofie I love you so much. I love shipbuilding so much and I've been doing this job, and now I envy the one who deals with this business and I'm jealous of the shipbuilders. I am a coworker of welders I know all metal jobs but I do not have anywhere else to work ... I would only love to work. if someone asks me for some help, they do not have to pay me. I like to work. Thanks
These are some tough jobs, not too many today could handle them, Great work.
Thank you for uploads.
these traditional trades are so magnificent ! So much goes into building just one . Understandably the ocean sailing ships off the modern times must have safety considerations such as fire prevention, and extinguishers, water tight bulkheads and motors, but the system of building has not changed much. Thank you again and three HUZZAH's to all !!
Awesome documentary and incredible construction. Thankyou for posting this film.
What an amazing project. 10 years in the making!
i worked in a small boat shop in the 1950,s we biult 6 80 ft boats for the canadian government they are still in operation i worked inthe lofting room above the office making full sized petterns i wrked on in stalling the 2x6 oak ribs the they were planked with 2" select fir it was the most satisfying job i ever worked on
That is a wonderful story. Are any of the ships you worked on visible online? A link would be great.
Awesome series of uploads,i love these majestic vestles,wish they were still around these days
I remember the moment she first hit water. My school did an excursion on one of the paddan boats, just to watch it. Pretty cool to think back to it now.
AMAZING! i'd wanna see this ship in person. awesome!!
Ein tolles Handwerk!!! Vielen Dank fuer das Video.;)
Fantastic film. thank you for showing it.
i like how all of these old ship building videos have music that sounds like its from old Gamecube and ps2 JRPG titles lol
Sophie, THANKYOU :)
Apasionante trabajo la construcción de barcos de madera, así como las técnicas llevadas a cabo por los carpinteros de rivera, con la maestría de siglos de experiencia llevados a cabo por los maestros para construir estas maravillas flotantes.."
Thank you. I am glad you like it. :)
that's so cool I want to learn how to build a ship
_" when genuine workmanship and quality was valued."_
Thats because their lives depended on it.
Those ships without it, ended up on the seabed.
you mean, their capital / deemed investments depended on it. Lives have never happened that much.
Rudolf S
Add to that a pride in their work, and care for their reputation, that every normal master, artisan and worker has, and we're beginning to paint a picture of the matter in the three comments made so far in this thread.
Great story !! Thanks...
What a great endevore. Thanks for the vid, how do I get a ride ? Beautiful.
nice work for all thanks
I saw her in Guangzhou (Canton). Stunning
Exelente injeniegeneria ,y desplazamiento ,los felicito 👏
Very nice, i dig hand made anything.
The Scary part is the guy applying boiling hot tar with no Safety Glasses.
Just amazing
I don't understand why they didn't build a Yawl boat for this instead of mounting engines. Such a beautiful ship, and I think would have been even more so without the propellers.
The engines where a required safety feature - They had to put it in to get rated as a seaworthy vessel with and comply with insurance regulations for that type of ship. Most of the era replicas can never go out on open sea because they fail to comply with modern safety standards. It's a compromise; Do you want a 100% authentic build that sits pretty in the harbor or do you modify it to rate as a commercial sea vessel?
Magnificent
+Sofie A +++ Thank you very much for an excellent, lovely & very informative video.
You're very welcome!
That engine looks like its right out of 1743.
Useful as a period movie prop.
I like this ship.
all I can say is wow
an absolutely wonderful creation, how unfortunate its building and launching was not more publicized here in Canada well done Sweden.now if you can deal with the immigrant imposed upon your people i would be really impressed
Great project, incredible modern engineering and one very irritating little whistle!
pretty weird editing back then
but great upload
ooooooo excelen
YOU STILL NEED IRON MEN TO SAIL YOUR WOODEN SHIP. GOD SPEED AND FAIR WINDS. WISH I WAS THERE.
Very true. Iron men with lions' hearts, fiendly winds and God's protection.
just imagining all that caulking and depression is creeping on me lmao
14:44 Someone goofed when proof reading the spelling of the harbour port just south of Perth. There is only one "E" in Fremantle !
No pitch hot and the Devil to pay!
Is linen still the best sail fabric?
Hate the fact that it has an engine but on the outside it looks okay
How many trees were cut down just for building this.
Nice
I want to make ship too
Diesel engines and stainless steel tanks! So much for authenticity!
but arent the props interfering with the sailing capacities?
No because they can feather the props just like an airplane.
Is this Wes Anderson?
so sad that Götheborg will stay next ten years at pier. And it think that it is not going to sail never again becose after ten years without active service with yards and sails they wont work.
The exact replica ship; twin screw/twin diesel..........FORMIDABLE!
Forget tar and rope, use flex tape.
The Vasa is built .Шуруп кувалдой забивает. Это не шведы. Это турки.
Did they want to offend the SEA Gods ? Where was the lady to christen her with champagne ?
Great series but GAH! That annoys me so much that they went through such painstaking work to make it look old fashioned, even using old fashioned methods... Then stuck an engine and props on it... At THAT point they might as well have taken a modern ship and just bolted planks on the sides and a couple of masts on it. Boom, just as authentic.
No, a modern ship with an engine is not 'as authentic' as one built using the old methods and materials. This is a very authentic ship, but it has an engine due to safety concerns since it is travelling on the high seas with lots of people on board. The same goes for life-saving equipment. I don't think most people would like to be stuck on the high seas during a storm with no modern life-saving equipment. The ship itself is built just as they did it back then, using the same materials, with a few modern security additions.
+Nicholas Kindig The whole idea was to build a real ocean sailing vessel, not a replica for a museum.
Today's ships MUST comply a large number of international safety and environmental requirements for the ship's structure, equipment and crew to get a classification for ocean sailing. Ships are not allowed to visit foreign ports outside their designated sailing area. While some other 1700's replica ships may be more "authentic", they are classified for coastal or "insea" sailing only.
A sailing replica ship is always a compromise. Nobody expects anyone to sail with 18th century nautical charts, without any tide tables or weather forecasts, without any communication equipment, wearing 1700's clothing and no life-saving equipment whatsoever. Even the essential tools for celestial navigation, the sextant (optical instrument) and marine chronometer (needed for determining the longitude) were invented in mid 1700's, but most seafarers of that time used more clumsy and inaccurate instruments for determining the position.
+paanikki Very well put!
It would be a real crying shame to get in a bad situation say during a storm and lose the ship because you did not have the engines.
Nicholas Kindig Ohøj romantic landlubbers.
As mentioned in the documentation much of the modern installation was due to modern safety regulations! Otherwise She would just be another floating museum not allowed to leave its safe harbour..
Modern comfort is simply common sense & makes Her useful many years ahead..
Try imagine yourself 20-30 days ocean sailing with unpredictable wind & no protection merciless delivered to any harsh conditions as snow, frost, fog, rain & hail along with ongoing meter high sea and daily forced to climb 30 meter mast..? Despite any personal condition & readiness!
It's not only a question of comfort, but necessary lifesaving installations & equipment..
Ow.. Dia mampir ke jakarta juga , ... Itu mau dibeli orang china ya.. Bro..
What a pitty they had to follow SOLAS rules and can't make it 100% reproduction. (
+Zaratustrov Nobody would sail half the world with such reproduction. At least with a crew of young kids.
Norway made a big longship called ''The Dragon'' and they sailed across the Atlantic to the US. It was like in the old days but the crew has modern clothing at least. That i suspect would be a real challenge..
Sailing Cargo is becomeing a thing lately even some without any engine at all one from 1873
Zaratustrov It was a choice because of modern technology installed!
Lots of traditional boats are build without these technical features..
Search the Internet for information, instead of sharing your failing knowledge on thousand years old successfully craftsmanship..!
paanikki Risking their life's on the ocean because of some landlubbers high thoughts on tradition instead of modern (logical) safety standards..?
Have you ever been sailing on the Atlantik with some 15 days to next safe coast..?
Engines and propellers....
like that
i'm sure there is a reason, but you just messed it up for me when you put in a engine
Follows the building of the "exact" replica ship; complete with its two authentic "replica" diesel engines.............
E à arca de Noé
they wearnt allownd to use it as a ocean trading ship otherwise.
What is this ship going to be used for. I saw some old cannons, I hope this ship is actually useful, not some musuem or replica tallship to show people how they sailed 200 yrs ago. The should use this ship to deliver food, freight or what ever is needed around the world. I think all ships & boats should be powered by the wind & assisted with electric motors that are powered by solar panels & wind generators. We don't need gasoline or diesel engines on the ocean anymore. They even have developed a four dr & 4 passenger solar car that can go 400 miles on a full charge of its batteries, & can propel itself by the solar panels alone, to speeds of 60-80 mph. The electric motor is attached to a 7 speed transmission, to help conserve energy. Nissan has a 70 lbs 3 cylinder diesel engine that makes 400 h.p. which could be used in airplanes for hybrid diesel/electric. Seimens has 100lbs e-motors that put out 300 h.p. they can be matted together to produce double the h.p. with a prop. Imagine a big plane with e-motors double up & with a prop, 1200 h.p on each wing 2400 total h.p, & solar panels covering the topside of the wings & fuselage, along with 2 nissan diesel engines matted to high output generators/altenators to create energy for the e-motors. Their will be no need to take mother earths blood anymore, or at least not as much.
Why fuel its a sail ship it kinda ruin the purpose
Security mostly, as said in the video.
+TrueBlogge777 SOLAS convention (United Nations) was signed by over 160 states all over the world, including most countries in the 3rd world. So, the regulations are not swedish, nordic or european. The ship classification organisations have also other rules that go beyond the regulations of the original SOLAS.
Your ears not working?
What a waste of good trees, modern designs would sail 3 times faster, why make an old slow POS and waste good wood