hi, we are building a 12 meter sailboat and plan to sail to china by end of next year. If you are interested in joining please feel free to contact me: zeyang(at)laowai.no

a couple more pictures.

Sounds great! Would like to - but I am quite sure, that my 3 kids would miss me. Let us hear more about the projekt. Who are you, where are you from and so on. Wonderful idea!

its for sure smaller than the Nordkaper project by Kloevendahl, but at least he also sailed to China. But dreams are the same. Ive been working in china and always wanted to sail the chinese coast. Hopefully more have same dreams and want to join this journey! Boat is being build outside Oslo, Norway. If you want to help finish up this project please contact me. zeyang(at)laowai.no http://blog.sina.com.cn/gosailingba

Another month passed by. Ive been working on finishing up all the planks and thankfully last week the last plank was tackweld in position. What a boring work. Every week since april i have been doing the same. But this week was difference. I start working on the keelplank and to reinforce the wooden frames inside the boat, so they wont get loose when flipping the hull. Anyway, it start to look like a real boat. The first snow is here. Thankfully i was smart enough to build a boatshed around the hull, so even if its not insulated i can just continue work during the winter. Its a little cold but i have a world map and can dream about those small pacific islands while working. Zeyang Join our sailing coop and come sailing to Middle Kingdom.

Boatshed in the night. Merry christmas to all of you and wish you happy new year! zeyang

its quite cold these days. average during day seems to be close to -27C. Had 2 guys and a girl from stockholm coming up to do some boatwork the last days, but due to impressive cold weather we opted for doing some rig-design inside the house and also sitting in front of the stove and dream about those nice pacific islands, where it never get below +25 degrees and only clothes you need is a t-shirt..... What a life! :-) zeyang

been busy welding up the seams and flipping the boat. probably one more week of flipping before i can move on and start workon the inside. got some help thankfully. spend 83 hours on welding up those seams and probably twice as much time on brushing and cleaning before welding.

some more flipping pictures. getting closer every day now.

the boat looks quite nice i like the lines and she looks like a strong lady ;-)
do you hav some drawings of what the boat looks like when its done?

The last picture looks like amajor work accident, i really hope its not ;-)... lol ...

sorry. no drawing of interior yet. but it will be pretty basic.

spent last week working on welding up the boat inside. its a little tricky but goes forward slowly. Maybe manage to weld up 1/4 of the inside sofar. Im working alone now due to easter holiday coming up,so itts a little more slow. by the way. that lamp is a optimus/petromax. Its hardly use any kerosene and gives light similar to 350 candles. Will be the future of lighting up the boat. Extremely clever system. zeyang hmm. by the way. is there not a single forum for sailors/dreamers/travellers inside Denmark?? I cant find any..

I don't know if theres any inside Denmark. but im shure theres some in Denmark "this forum" for instance is for sailors?
Otherwise search "google.dk" for " rejseforum - sejlerforum - bådforum - langturssejlads" or something likewise, im shure some will come up.

Hi Zeyang
There is a danish forum for travellers in Denmark:www.ftlf.dk
Lots of sailors send letters,with expieriences,from all over the world,try that.

S/Y June

thanks. 3 groups and 3 answers in www.ftlf.dk. and its even just for members. is there no other places in DK where dreamers/sailors meet? thanks zeyang

it dosent really neet to be only for sailing -such outdoor forums are quite good also.
Something like www.utsidan.se (swedish one). Anything simliar in denmark?

zeyang

Hi Friends, here are some updates from sailing the farm collective. Had a canadian girl here last 2 weeks. actually she planned to stay only one week due to her grad-courses but unfortunately she got stranded for another week due to the volcanic ash stuff coming from iceland, so luckily for me at least we got more work finished up. Spent most of the last 2 weeks brushing and welding up the boat inside. That was indeed a boring step, but from now on,its more fun work coming up - like putting in frames, interor, sailsewing, deck etc. More people are coming up here in may/june and august, but we still have space available so if you are interested in joining, please drop me a line. (PS: no work in July due to holiday) zeyang

hi friends here is a short update from sailing the farm collective in middle of june. The summer is here now at last and bees are busy collecting delicious honey. Plan with bees is to expand hives so we are spending some time doing queen breeding. its a little more tricky than it seems at first glance, but cool to do. Then we have planted herbs in the garden and hopefully we will get a lot of healthy vegetables by end of summer. And then the most important news!! Boatbuilding goes happily forward. We are working hard welding in frames into the hull. and after a lot of fiddeling we are now down to bending one frame in 3 hours!! thats pretty fast when we spend more than a day with the first one. Next step is deck and then interior and sail-sewing. (mostly whole august on this step) Then, we wish you all a happy summer. If you are interested in joining we have space for august and onwards, fair winds and happy summer. regards sailing-the-farm collective!

Dear Friends. Sailing the farm tribe - Mid July 2010. At last, the frames are bend into the boat and soon finished welded up. That was one long and tedious work but now we are soon moving on to a much more exiting stuff - laying down the deck and start work on the interior - then also start to sew up the sails for the boat. There have been quite a response from last time and august is pretty much filled up with people coming up to help on boatbuilding and farming. Somehow the romantic touch of roaming the seven seas as a wannabe seagypsy seems to attract much more people than we ever dreamed of, so hopefully in future we will have more boats built and a real seafaring community. At least that is my wet dream! Then some farming stuff. The grey cat got 4 kittens some weeks ago, some very adorable small kittens. One is looking curious at the boatbuilding. Queen-breeding goes forward as planned. I think we will manage to more than double amount of hives this year - that is pretty good. It would not have been possible without help from a swedish boatbuilding girl which seems to fall in love with queenbreeding despite quite a few bee-stings during summer. :-) We have some beds free for september and onwards, so if you are interesting in joining this uber-cool sea-gypsy tribe project, feel free to contact us! Peace and love from Sailing-the-farm --- Navigare necesse est, vivere non est necesse

Sailing the farm tribe - Mid august 2010. Dear Friends. Its been a busy august. 9 happy boatbuilding girls and guys have been here during august and it has been quite busy. We have done quite a lot of work on the boatproject and have been workingon important but tedious small stuff like watertanks, coolingtank etc. We are also working on finding ecovillages on different continent which we will be a part of the plan when the journey begins. In short we will sail between ecovillages and change crew and stock up with food to reach other ecovillages on different continents. if you know about some ecovillages close to sea which could be interested in participate please inform us. But we will try to be as selfsufficient as possible onboard and will test a small scale hydrophonic solution to grow vegetables while sailing with as little water usage as possible. Not easy on a boat but hopefully manage to get some fresh food... (getting enough water is always problem on a boat) Then some farm news: We are expanding the garden to grow more tasty vegetables next year. Even if the fall is coming soon we will try to grow some more fast growing salads until snow is coming. Our extremely slow growing tomatoes will be moved indoors and continue with help of growlamp in our greenhouse. Bees are doing good and we have already processed some delicous honey from this year. (pure organic stuff) We have some space for late september and onwards if you are interested in joining this cool sea-gypsy project. Just drop us a line. Peace and love from Sailing-the-farm Then some pictures. (we are not always working, one picture is a bunch of happy boatbuilding guys after swimming in the brrr cold lake)



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