sailing the farm - join our sea gypsy commune!

[zeyang]

we are a bunch of people running a sailing/boatbuilding coop with love of sailing and diving and generally try to be as selfsufficient and travel with zero pollution. If its a success we plan to built more of similar type of boats, but sofar at this stage we are building a prototype to see if this will be a success or not.
If you are interested in joining please feel free to contact us. The boat is being build on a wwoof farm north of Oslo, Norway. there are beds available.
There will be farming also (mostly as an apiary farm) but these days focus is mostly boatbuilding.
Fairly young poeople have joined mostly from Europe but we strive to have equal opportunity and invite all sort of people,age race, religous background, skills to join. Food is mostly vegetarian. (90%) Foodmaking is based on turns. we try to eat as healthy as possible and do grow some part of the food in our garden.
You really dont need to have any prior boatbuilding or sailing experience. We will teach you all you need to learn.
What is more important is your ability to live on the high seas for weeks at a time. (some love/some hate this of course)
Want more information or pictures?
send us an email to:
(zeyang(at)laowai.no

 

[BigCountryEsq]

show us some more pics of the boats your building

 

[zeyang]

show us some more pics of the boats your building

here is a good one.
colin archer, 12 meter x4.30
thickness: 8 mm lapstrake, 2 cm overlap
frames: every 60 cm.
material: 5083 alloy

 

[BigCountryEsq]

so it has a wooden frame, and is skinned in aluminum?

do you guys have a website? maybe some info on everything you are doing?

this sounds very interesting.

 

[Jim Lapenta]

How hot are the women is what I want to know before dumping my SUV.

 

[BigCountryEsq]

found a link to another forum where there are more pics
Sailing The Farm -Alternative kollektiv for Sea Gypsies!

 

[zeyang]

so it has a wooden frame, and is skinned in aluminum?

do you guys have a website? maybe some info on everything you are doing?

this sounds very interesting.

Frame (ribs) is also aluminium and skin is aluminum.
here we are welding up the laps inside.

 

[BigCountryEsq]

Zeyang I've seen some other posts on other sites by you, what nationality are you? How many languages can you read/type/speak?

 

[zeyang]

Zeyang I've seen some other posts on other sites by you, what nationality are you? How many languages can you read/type/speak?

Im not too fluent in any languges so translate.google is my friend.
My heritage is nordic but Im closer to chinese- kind of global nationality maybe. Anyway i dont believe much in nationality out on seven seas - kind of last frontier!

Z

 

[zeyang]

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


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Navigare necesse est, vivere non est necesse