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[Newfie]

Zeyang,

Thanks for the update. Good to see someone out there doing lots of cool and positive stuff.

[zeyang]

Sailing the farm tribe - Week 34 2010.

Dear Friends.

Late august 2010. 6-7 people from europe and south america has been
here last weeks and we suddenly start to feel that summer is soon
over. It has been raining almost every day last week but thankfully
the boatbuilding shed is waterproof.

We are now working on painting the barn and fixing the roof. Not easy
when its 15 meter to the top, but with an expert english scaffold girl
this part goes forward fast. Our small garden is soon ready for
harvest and we have some blue and rasperry raids into the forest so we
will hopefully not run out of jam for the next month or so.

Last week the girls found out that a real boat should have a real
galleon figure and since one of them are an metal artist she think it
would be nice to cast it in aluminium. One of the other girls act as a
model. Sofar it looks nice in plaster, and we look forward to see how
real it will be in aluminium. That blue plaster stuff is amazing.

Thanks to everyone who sent us tips for eco villages. Hopefully some
will be interested in our journey and maybe even want to participate
in our sea gypsy project.

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

Pictures from last week: James and Jane Bond with license to screw,
Miss plasterface (Our female galleon model) and our metal artist
posing outside the boat.

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[Newfie]

zeyany,

I couldn't get your links to work so I googled it up.

Hope you don't mind if I post a link here.

http://weldingweb.com/showthread.php?t=29094&page=17

Very imaginative stuff. Young minds are flexible.

Good for ya and your crew.

[Revi]

Awesome boat! I am thinking of getting a boat I can row/ motor and sail, like a Drascombe Lugger for bug-out purposes. I have a place on an island and it would be the way to get there if it gets crazy. (and even if it doesn't it would be a great boat for getting around)

What do you suggest? I have heard of the Sea Pearl, the Norseboat and the sailing Whitehall. I am even considering a catboat, if it will fit on a trailer.

[Newfie]

If you have a few hundred hours to waste then go to yachtworld.com and start poking around. Use the advanced search tool for location/price/type/size/etc. There are tons of interesting boats for sale/sail.

There is a wonderful little Ganely steel junk rigged sloop in Nova Scotia that they are practically giving away.

[zeyang]

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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[Revi]

I checked out Yachtworld, and found some really cool boats.

Thanks Newfie!

Sailing the farm must be in a similar climate to here, but we haven't had our first freeze yet, thankfully. It could happen any time soon though.

[Newfie]

Anytime Revi, anytime.

[zeyang]

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.


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[zeyang]

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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[Newfie]

zeyzang,

Sorry to hear about your head injury, I hope all is well.

Both my Father and Father-In-Law had extremely serious head injuries that they healed from.

From the looks of your site it sounds like you are doing fine and loving life.

We continue to work, far my slowly than you, on refitting and upgrading our 44'er. Fuel polishing system (since we had dirty fuel) and now working on heaters. I have been torturing (welding) some aluminum into the rough shape of a box to contain the kerosene heater in a bulkhead cut out. Clearly my level of skill would not work on your project.

Congratulations

[Newfie]

Hi guys,

Ever hear of Jay Fitzgerald? He wrote a book titled Seasteading about living on an engineless sailboat.

He has sold the boat and moved to Hawaii but is into sustainable living with continued interest in seasteading.

I thought you folks might be interested in his forum.

http://sensiblesimplicity.lefora.com/

Or his blog

http://sanityandsimplicity.blogspot.com/

Cheers,
Newfie

[zeyang]

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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[BlisteredWhippet]

Interesting... melting down lead for ballast...



This is how we do it in America!




Making sailcloth?




Those look like beehives...



....are you taking them with for defense?



Double masts, you must be insane.



This is how we do it in America... single mast (less weather helm?)....



You be the judge.

[Revi]

Come find us on Swan's Island if you are on this side of the pond. We have a great harbor and you can anchor your boat no problem.

http://www.swansisland.org/

Good luck with the project!

It is an amazing thing to do.

I think now is the time to do it.

[zeyang]

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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[Newfie]

Same to you Z.

Have a happy.

[zeyang]

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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[Revi]

That's an amazing boat! It seems like one of those science fiction stories where you are getting the boat ready, and sail off just as the world goes crackerdog.

When do you plan on launching?

[zeyang]

That's an amazing boat! It seems like one of those science fiction stories where you are getting the boat ready, and sail off just as the world goes crackerdog.

When do you plan on launching?

plan was to finish last july but im still spending my days in the shed. hopefully will see the end of this project by end of this year.
ive at least learned that building a boat is timeconsuming and expensive hobby to have

working on welding in the watertanks now. will finish them by next week hopefullly.
the main problem is that everything is interconnecting so even postion of tanks will involve mast position which again will involve calculation of sails which again will involve....
but we are moving forward at full speed..

ze