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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

Sailing the Farm - Please join our sailing coop and come sail to the end of the world 

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Sailing the farm tribe - Week 36 2010. Dear Friends. Early september 2010. Summer is for sure over. We have had the first day with below 0 degrees now and harvest is around the corner. We have had people from UK, Argentina, Australia(!), US, Germany, Spain and Sweden here last days. Farm-news: The bees will be fed sugar next week, so for sure they know that the summer is over, and we have been picking/harvest lots and lots of berries and some hunded kilo of organic broccoli. Any tips how to eat broccoli in different ways is very welcome. Cooked, baked, raw.. you name it - we will try it! We are still working on the painting the barn/fixing the roof and will continue this for the next weeks, also expand the garden for next year harvest and will try different kind of seeds which is planted in autumn. Boatbuilding news. The gallion figure goes forward as normal. This is not an easy task. Problem is more about how to make it look natural and still protected below the bowsprit without beeing crushed in some harbour. Since its so close to the winter season we prioritize harvest and painting but will be back to more welding and boatbuilding by early october. If you want to join our cool sea gypsy tribe, please contact us. Pictures from last weeks: Watching the stars. The gallion figure with head and body. Jumping of the straw-bale and how many can sit on a strawbale-contest 2010. Peace and love from Sailing-the-farm tribe.



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Sailing the Farm - Please join our sailing coop and come sail to the end of the world 

Very, very interesting project to follow. .)
I had the intention to pay you a short visit this summer, when I was in Numedal, but time was to short!!
Looking forward to follow the project.

Med venlig hilsen
ktm

 

Sailing the farm tribe - Week 38 2010. Dear wannabe sea-gypsies. Late september 2010. We have been working on feeding the bees with sugar, working on the barn and put seeds into the soil during last 2 weeks. Its also been raining a lot. Season is at the end for the bees and they can happily hibernate (kind of) until spring again. Since its so close until snow is coming we prioritize everything which have to be done outside now. Hopefully will be back on boatbuilding by october. Thanks for many cool broccoli receipes. we try to have broccoli every day. Not because its so healthy (which it is) but more because we have so much of it! Only stuff we havent try yet is broccoli cake! If you want to join our cool sea gypsy tribe, please contact us. Pictures from last weeks: Have no horse!, Feeding the steam-boiler to heat up sugar for bees, 3 birds on the barn-roof (which is 15 meter up). gallion-figure in clay. Peace and love from Sailing-the-farm tribe. -- Navigare necesse est, vivere non est necesse If you want to receive our newsletter on email: http://list.nett.org/mailman/listinfo/sailing-the-farm

Sailing the Farm - Please join our sailing coop and come sail to the end of the world 

Sailing the farm tribe - October 2010. Dear wannabe sea-gypsies. Late october 2010. Still no snow, which is kind of strange, but we are happy. It has been a quite a busy october with more than 10 people here almost all the time so it is a little crowded during dinner-time. But ofcourse very nice. We have spent most of the time painting up the barn and fixing the roof and we are now very close to finish up this step. But we are not always working, during weekend it has been apple picking so the cellar is stuffed with yummy apple/cinnamon jam. We will be back to serious boatbuilding when last part of the barn roof is fixed so stay tuned. If you want to join our cool sea gypsy tribe, please contact us. Pictures from last weeks: Pretty crowded around breakfast table,indoor fishing, the cat found a soft couch, happy workers on the roof. Peace and love from Sailing-the-farm tribe.



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Sailing the Farm - Please join our sailing coop and come sail to the end of the world 

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Sailing the farm tribe - late November 2010.

Dear wannabe sea-gypsies.

Sailing the Farm late November 2010. The snow has arriwed, its -10C
outside but warm inside the farm-hosue . We managed to finish up the
barn just in time before the snow arrived, and we are back on the
boat.

These days we have been working on making a small scale sails in 1/10
with junkrig. Its cheaper to mistakes in 1/10 than in original
version. We are not really happy about the sail-construction yet so
the plan now is to put on on a model and see how it works, before we
start to sew up the big sails.

Also started the slow process of melding down lead to ingots. We
probably need 5-6 tonns of lead so its a long way to go.

If you want to join our cool sea gypsy tribe, please contact us.

Pictures from last weeks: The chinese eskimo-girl sorting out
scraplead for ballast. Sail-sewing girl is making model-sails for
testing. Painting bee-hives for next summer. All will be
green. The Boat with 2 mast and junk-rig.

Peace and love from
Sailing-the-farm tribe.









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Sailing the Farm tribe december 2010.

Dear friends.

Its been a cold november and december (coldest since 1919 they say) It
feels more like january with temperatures down to -25 C but work goes
forward as usual. We are still working with the sails model and still
not really happy with the construction so some time to go before we
scale up in real size and start to make it. 5-6 people have been here
last weeks. We managed also to melt some hundreds kg of beeswax out
of old beeframes which hopefully will be candles in future. Then we
also are working on the boat as normal.

Im sitting alone in front of the fire and writing up the last
Newsletter of 2010. Looking back, 53 people from all over the world
have been helping moving "Sailing the Farm" project forward in
2010. All more or less amateurs but they have all done a tremendous
work both on farm and on the boat. This adds up to 836 working days
or more than 6000 hours! Without this help this project will be
impossible to finish.. Im very grateful for all who have been
contributed, the laughter and jokes around the dinnertable and most of
all the good memories.

So when the fire slowly burns out and its time to go to bed, I wish
you and your loved ones a peaceful christmas and a happy new year and
hope to see you in 2011.

Pictures from last weeks: The sailmaking model goes forward. Mr Cat
and boatbuilding dog share the couch after a hard day. Boathouse in
wintersnow.

Peace and love from
Sailing-the-farm tribe.







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If you want to join our sea gypsy tribe, please contact us.
Navigare necesse est, vivere non est necesse
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Sailing the Farm - Please join our sailing coop and come sail to the end of the world 

Sailing the Farm tribe january 2011

Dear friends.

New year and new possibilites! I bet 2011 will be a good year for our
dream project. More and more people are joining to help pushing
sailing the farm tribe forward so sofar it looks good.

Last weeks we have been working hard on the boat project and farm. Its
5 people here now from different countries from all the world. The
farm has also got a few more permanent inhabitants - we found out that
its time to get self sufficient on eggs so now we have chickens -
hopefully there will be plenty of eggs in a few months time. The
indoor garden is growing slowly and wonder of wonder we have now 2 red
tomatoes! :-) That is really a slow growing plant!

Of more serious farm work we are cleaning 2500 frames in Sodium
hydroxide (NaOH) or better known as caustic soda which will be used
for next years beekeeping project. We made a 2x1 meter box out of 1 mm
aluminium for washing those frames, but suddenly found out that this
stuff was extremely corrosive. That box lasted only 2 days! Thankfully
there will be no NaOH on the boat! :-)

Pictures from last weeks: chickens under the green lamp, cleaning
beekeeping frames, a boatbuilding girl in front of the boat.

Peace and love from
Sailing-the-farm tribe.







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If you want to join our sea gypsy tribe, please contact us.
Navigare necesse est, vivere non est necesse
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Sailing the Farm - Please join our sailing coop and come sail to the end of the world 

Sailing the Farm tribe march 2011

Dear friends.

The coldest months are behind us thankfully. Daylight get longer
every day and soon the springtime will be here. It has been maybe
10-15 very nice wannabee sea-gypsies here last 2-3 months and we have
made good progress.

We have been working hard on the boat and farm since last
newsletter. Since last time we are more or less finished with the
dieseltanks and watertanks inside the boat and also fixed the position
of the small engine we plan to install.

Making stuff for beehives is more or less finished. Cleaning and make
wax-moulds for 200 bee-hive boxes took a lot of time but only a few
days away finish up this step.

Of less serious business, as tradition on the farm goes - we made
another igloo this year and its a popular place to sleep during
night. Even if its -20 celcius its cozy and warm inside the
igloo. Skiing is also a popular pasttime.

When spring is coming we plan to grow potatoes, carrots and onion to
get more selfsufficient on food. Welding up the deck has also high
priority so until then - have a nice early spring (or autumn/winter
for those of you in the southern hemisphere!)


If you are interested in joining sailing the farm project please
contact us!

Pictures from last time.

1. The ladies are making wax-moulds for the bees.
2. Cutting wood for next winter.
3. A nice Igloo, very popular indeed!
4. Our birds are taking sun-bath.
5. Out skiing in nice winter weather.

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If you want to join our sea gypsy tribe, please contact us.
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Sailing the Farm - Please join our sailing coop and come sail to the end of the world 

Sailing the Farm tribe early april 2011

Dear friends.

Spring is slowly coming and even if it is still snowing it usually
melt a little every day. We are into summertime so sun goes down after
2000 so we have long days ahead of us thankfully.

There has been many nice wannabee seagypsies last weeks on farm and
everyone talks eagerly about the future life of roaming the seas. We
have a huge stocks of sailingbooks on the farm so its easy to dream
about distance shores and nice sunsets.

The work goes forward as normal, we are melting lead for the ballast
keel (totally around 4500 tonns). It will be in big V-shaped form,
with average weight of around 60 kg. It makes it easier to take them
out in emergency. Lead is quite poisonous so we are using masks and
work outside. It melts around 300 degress, so easy to use a wood
burning stove.

The wax-melting process for the bees is finished thankfully. Now we
have 150 boxes with clean organic wax. We started this process in
october so it was a long and tedious work.


If you are interested in joining sailing the farm project please
contact us!

Comments to the pictures.

1: 3 hardworking seagypsies taking a rest on the couch.
2. the girl with the rooster. Look at the matching colors. The rooster
might think they belong to the same tribe.
3. Our Igloo got a nice shaped door.
4. Balancing on a line. A little cold without shoes.
5. Melting lead for the boat. Each weight 60 kg.
6. Time to hit the road again. Our professional hitchhiking girl
decide to go south after many month on farm. Deeply missed.


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If you want to join our sea gypsy tribe, please contact us.
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