Wellcraft... the EARLY years

TunaHead

TunaHead

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Swede's recent posts reminded me of something.  A couple of years ago I visited my cousins in Norway.  While in Oslo I visited the Viking ship museum.  Two of the old longships are pictured below.  Both were built ~820 AD.  I love the lines on these.  By the way, "Wellcraft" means "excellent boat for raiding, pillaging and impressing the ladies" in Norwegian...  

(Ok... I might have made that up)
http://www.khm.uio.no/english/collections/Viking_ships/oseberg.shtml

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Nope, thats my cousin Mari. She's a law student in Oslo. She has been to Calfornia to visit a couple of times with her sister. The first trip I drove the two girls and their parents from Las Vegas to my place in Northern CA. Everytime we would drive through a town the girls would break out laughing. I finally made them stop chattering in Norwegian and tell me in English what was so funny. Apparently the word "six" means sex in Norway. They were breaking into laughter every time we drove past a Motel 6.
 
bigshrimpin I'm up in Humboldt county about 15 miles north of Eureka. We fish primarily out of Trinidad and Eureka.
 
TunaHead said:
Apparently the word "six" means sex in Norway. They were breaking into laughter every time we drove past a Motel 6.
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69 must REELY tumble her tickle-box ;) ;D ...




Tunahead...Mari is standin' at the stern of that boat...you can see why that side of a boat is called "starboard"... that's the ''steer-board" behind her as it was called long ago and that word morphed into indicating that side of a boat because the ''steer-board'' was ALWAYS on that side ;) ... just a little piece of meaningless trivia stumbled across somewhere sailing thru boatdom ;) ;D ...
 
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