Silvervingen restoration

My brother shoot a couple of new pictures today of his restoration of SWE 31 Silvervingen. He spends a tremendous amount of time hand planing the deck beams to align with the three dimensional surface "called the deck". Hours spent getting it all aligned that no one will ever recognize... unless they read this blog that is...

My nephew Gustavs boat

My 8 year old Nephew Gustav and myself have been building this RC sail boat during the past winter. Some work still to be done to the rigging and sheet system, before we take it apart for paint. Nice boat that will carry quite a bit of sails. We plan for it to be a light air missile.

Silvervingen restoration

More before and after pics

Silvervingen restoration

Posting another couple of pictures showing the progress of the SWE31 Silvervingen restoration.

Silvervingen restoration

Posting a couple of brand new pictures taken last night.
Before and after pics are pretty cool I think.

Silvervingen restoration

Posting another picture of my brothers impressive restoration of SWE31 Silvervingen.
The deck sub structure is slowly but surely getting in place.

Restoration of 6mR SWE31 Silvervingen

I will post a brand new picture of SWE 31 later this week. In the meantime you will have to make due with this picture, taken about a month ago.

SWE31 Silvervingen restoration

Brand new pictures from yesterday afternoon showing the shroud plates and deck beams installed in the boat. Beautiful workmanship as always.
Next to be installed are the two crew cockpits. New pictures will be posted when they are installed.

6mR SWE31 Silvervingen restoration

My brother has spent the past 1.5 months building this internal framework. Beautiful craftsmanship as always. He is now waiting for temperatures to rise above 10 degrees C, allowing him to mount this assembly on the boat. The shrouds will be connected to the mast foot with adjustable rods. The design is light and very strong. The reinforcement knees are made from Acid proof stainless steel and polished to a high gloss finish. I'm very impressed and proud of the work my brother is doing with his boat/restoration.

SWE19 "Tre Kronor" sailing off the coast of San Diego 1992.
Good looking boat that I'm sure would have been more successful if more money had been spent on the project. In comparison to Sweden's one boat challenge, Italy and New Zealand built 5 boats each for the 1992 America's Cup.

America's Cup 1992 part 3

Merry Christmas everybody!
I hope you are having a nice relaxing holiday with your family and friends.

This is a picture of the Spanish IACC boat from 1992 called ESP22.
The boat finished 5th in San Diego, beating the Swedish boat who placed 7th.
The only boat the Swedish boat Tre Kronor SWE-19 beat was Australia Challenge AUS-17.

America's Cup 1992 part 2

The New Zealand team did a very impressive challenge in 1992.
They built a total of five boats. The syndicate chairman was Sir Michael Fay. Skipper Rod Davis, and debuting as syndicate manager was no one other than Sir Peter Blake.
Unfortunately NZL 20 lost against ITA 25 Il Moro di Venezia V (even if Wiki calls ITA 16 the winner in the 1992 LV cup), in the Louis Vuitton final. I will off course change this information if it turns out to be wrong.
Being a young boy hanging out in the bars in San Diego, I met several of the team members working in the New Zealand team, which lead to a trip down under for me.
Read more about the late Sir Peter Blake here.
Read more about Il Moro Di Venezia IV here.

Il Moro Di Venezia's chairman Raul Gardini, unfortunately took his life in 1993 after his financial and political integrity had been called into serious question.

America's Cup 1992

Blogmaster found some old pictures in the attic from 1992. Sweden raced with "Tre Kronor" SWE19 in the Louis Vuitton Cup. I had the privilege to go out with the Media boat for the two first days of racing. These pictures were taken the first day "Tre Kronor" raced with SAAB sponsorship. The free lance reporter writing for Aftonbladet was bummed because they had taken 1500 pics of the boat the day before, during practice, without the SAAB logo... I proudly present to you, original America's Cup yacht photos from 1992, taken by Blogmaster at the age of 23... Long time ago...
I need to add. The boat designed by Peter Norlin. "Tre Kronor" with skipper Gurra Kranz at the helm.

US Championships Victoria R/C yacht

Blogmaster took this picture yesterday during the final day of the US Championships in the Victoria R/C yacht class. Beautiful weather in NC. Unfortunately very light winds this last day of the Championship.

2.4mR's in Oslo

Blogmaster spent a week in Oslo Norway. This picture was taken at Akker Brygge on Tuesday night the 13th of October. Nice weather all week.

Skepparmöte!

Blogmaster planerar ett skepparmöte i gårdshuset.
Hör av er om vilken helg som kan passa.

Väl mött,

Mer segling nästa år...

/Lasse

Sailing with Conny this Saturday

We will race Arkörunt with Conny this coming weekend. It will be fun and hopefully good weather. Posting a picture from 3 years ago.

Sailing today cancelled due to strong winds

We planned to sail today, but 10-15m/s winds made us re-think...
Hopefully we can sail early this week instead.

Rain and heavy winds

Heavy winds and rain in the afternoon prevented us from sailing today.
We decided to play it safe since it was the first launch of the season and Johan pretty much only sailed once last year. Wind speeds in excess of 31 miles/hour winds (14 meters/second). We hope to try again on Thursday or Friday.
The picture is from a couple of days ago. Nice breeze and sunny weather.