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Boats & Yachts 1981 - 2024

Andunge a 22' sailboat. A classic, small sailboat made of mahogany with ash ribs, a 600 kilogram long iron keel and 14 square meters of sails.<br> It was bought on land at Bygdø. My first sailboat harboured at Kavringen Marina used for sailing trips no<br> further than Håøya, Oslofjord.

A simple, but well-designed, stable and versatile fiber glass open boat. It ran fast with a 15HP Yamaha outboard engine. It was left after the sale<br> of Skovly in 1987 in need of major repairs. These were carried out with limited success. The boat was moored on a buoy<br>outside my boat house at Flaskebekk, Nesodden and used for day trips in inner Oslofjord.

The perfect small fiber glass day tourer. The boat was roomy and very stable. It ran fast with a 30HP Yamaha engine. The boat was<br> bought on land at Nesset, Ås. The boat was moored outside my boat house at Rudstrand, Nesodden and used for many day trips<br> (and one overnight trip at Håø) in inner Oslofjord.

A smaller and simpler catamaran compared with the more common 14' cat (the Wave could be disassembled and brought on top of car). It was made from<br>polyetylen I believe and not from fiberglass. Easy to sail and to capsize which happened a number of times by falling over both sideways as well as<br>forward (with the wind from aft). It was quite easy to right With the right type of rope. The boat was bought from John Wee's dive shop in Makati and <br>kept on land or on buoy outside my beach house in Ligaya, Mabini, Batangas. I sailed the Ligpo - Anilao - Maricaban part of Balayan Bay.

A standard trawling banka with a 16HP Briggs&Stratton gasoline engine and 'Solo-style' curved outriggers. It was bought on land in Solo, Mabini,<br>Batangas, and kept on land or buoy outside my beach house in Ligaya, Mabini, Batangas. It was used all over Balayan Bay as far as Calatagan and Lemery.

A full-size diving-banka with a marinized gasolin car-engine. It was bought on land at Dive 7000, San Teodoro, Mabini, Batangas and kept on land<br>or buoy outside my beach house in Ligaya, Mabini, Batangas. It was used mostly for diving trips from Ligpo Island to Maricaban and Sombrero Island<br>as well as a trip to Puerto Galera.

These small bankas (paraws) were used for fishing with the simplest hook and line gear. I had a few made to order for 30 dollar or so. Fine for small<br>trips along the Ligaya shore.

A standard trawling banka made to order with horizontal outriggers and equipped with a Honda 16HP engine and later an 18HP Briggs&Stratton.<br>It was kept on land or buoy outside my beach house in Ligaya, Mabini, Batangas, and used in southern part of Balayan Bay from Lemery, to <br>Bonito Island and all around Maricaba and Sombrero Island.

A small well-equipped sailboat, fairly tall rigging with a centerboard. Bought in Manila from Stephen Groff. The boat originally came from <br>Canada and was brought to Bataan area, Philippines, then to my place in Anilao, Batangas. It was then shipped to Nesodden, Norway and finally<br>sold and moored at Hovedø, Oslo. I capsized a couple of times both in Balayan Bay and outside Blylaget in Bundefjorden. Sailing solo it<br>was difficult to get it upright and drained (it had a automatic draining system, but this required some speed which was difficult to reach with<br>the boat full of water).

A touring fiberglass kayak bought new and used in Bundefjorden from Blylaget to Bekkelaget. It was kept on my beach house at Rudstrand.<br>I had a more traditional fiberglass kayak in the late 1980s at Flaskebekk, but no pictures found.

A 1965 Swedish-built mahogany cruiser bought from Leif Holme in 2007 who had restored the boat to mint condition. The original Volvo Penta<br>marinised gasoline engine was eventually replaced with a 140HP Mercruiser engine. The boat was used for yearly summer vacations in Oslofjord<br>and the Swedish West Coast.

I have had various 7-9' inflatables: Aquaquick, West, West Commander used with <a href=

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I tried this aluminium dingy as an alternative to the inflatables. It was very light and easy to tow, however it froze into the winter ice<br>in Bundefjorden and had to be freed through some heavy-handed work with an ice-ax which destroyed some of the rivets used in the hull. <br>I eventually considered inflatables to be more practical.

I learnt basic wind-surficing the first summer and crossed Bundefjorden during the second. I bought a lighter carbon fiber mast after<br>the first season and eventually had to replace the sail in 2018, however this was destroyed in 2021 during stormy weather.<br>The board has since not been used.

I bought this wooden boat from a builder in Tustna, North-west Norway. Too wide for rowing (possible, but impractical), and thus used with<br>a 6HP long-stem Tohatsu outboard. The pine boards blackened already after the first season and was subsequently impregnated with lineseed<br>oil. I suspect that the quality of the boards were not suitable for boat building. The boat was eventually condemned after the 2020 season.<br>The plywood plates used on both sides of the stern to protect the wood against the engine holders had eventually prevented the pine boards <br>between them from breathing and drying, and they eventually got rotten. The boat was moored on a buoy outside my boat house at Rudstrand.

I bought this polyetylen kayak new from Drammen and keeps it at my boat house at Rudstrand. I have used all over Bundefjorden from Nesset to<br>Bekkelaget and Nesoddtangen, and also brought it along on longer excursions with.

A small racing boat which actually belonged to Liv. It had Mariner/Viking 10/15 HP outboard and ran quite fast with a single person and<br> no load (20 knots). I used it many times to move gears between Rudstrand and Kavringen Marina - however with more than about 100 kg total<br> load including the driver it was unable to plane and thus impractical.

A 1983 Swedish built fiberglass sailboat which I bought from Stian Falch. The original Volvo Penta MD17 diesel engine was replaced for the 2024 season<br>with a Volvo Penta D1 30. The boat is being used for sailing vacations so far in Oslofjord area.

Another inflatable I always bring along when sailing with Ligaya. I use with a 2.5 HP Suzuki outboard.

An all-purpose utility boat which is not really mine - it was repaired from a wreck by my brother and the engine belongs to Liv ...<br>I did some improvements: improvised the engine-installation (Mariner Viking 10/15 HP relocated from the Sørspeed) and some<br>other smaller things.

www.ligaya.net Jens Hintze Holm jens@ligaya.net