hi, we are building a tradtional norwegian sailboat (north of oslo) with a cool plan to have a sailing collective and live like ocean nomads!
If you are interested in (either of these)
1) sailing
2) alternative lifestyle
3) deep blue sea
4) travel the world with nice people

then this project might be for you?`

interested?

contact me on
zeyang(at)laowai.no

more pictures: http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/zeyang http://blog.sina.com.cn/zeyang2009

hi friends
here is a short update from sailing the farm collective in middle of june.

The summer is here now at last and bees are busy collecting delicious honey.
Plan with bees is to expand hives so we are spending some time doing queen
breeding. its a little more tricky than it seems at first glance, but cool to
do.

Then we have planted herbs in the garden and hopefully we will get a lot of
healthy vegetables by end of summer.

And then the most important news!! Boatbuilding goes happily forward. We are
working hard welding in frames into the hull. and after a lot of fiddeling we
are now down to bending one frame in 3 hours!! thats pretty fast when we spend
more than a day with the first one. Next step is deck and then interior and
sail-sewing. (mostly whole august on this step)

Then, we wish you all a happy summer. If you are interested in joining we have
space for august and onwards,





fair winds and happy summer.


regards
sailing-the-farm collective!

Hey!
Thanx for sharing! Looks like a hole lot of fun!

Best wishes from Linda

Ps. If you want to have your own blog here on arctic femme too, please take contact!

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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Sailing the farm tribe - Mid august 2010.

Dear Friends.

Its been a busy august. 9 happy boatbuilding girls and guys have been
here during august and it has been quite busy. We have done quite a
lot of work on the boatproject and have been workingon important but
tedious small stuff like watertanks, coolingtank etc.

We are also working on finding ecovillages on different continent
which we will be a part of the plan when the journey begins. In short
we will sail between ecovillages and change crew and stock up with
food to reach other ecovillages on different continents. if you know
about some ecovillages close to sea which could be interested in
participate please inform us.

But we will try to be as selfsufficient as possible onboard and will
test a small scale hydrophonic solution to grow vegetables while
sailing with as little water usage as possible. Not easy on a boat but
hopefully manage to get some fresh food... (getting enough water is
always problem on a boat)

Then some farm news: We are expanding the garden to grow more tasty
vegetables next year. Even if the fall is coming soon we will try to
grow some more fast growing salads until snow is coming. Our extremely
slow growing tomatoes will be moved indoors and continue with help of
growlamp in our greenhouse. Bees are doing good and we have already
processed some delicous honey from this year. (pure organic stuff)

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

Then some pictures. (we are not always working, one picture is a bunch
of happy boatbuilding guys after swimming in the brrr cold lake)
http://weldingweb.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=54237&stc=1&d=1281775864 http://weldingweb.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=54238&stc=1&d=1281775873 http://weldingweb.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=54239&stc=1&d=1281775878 http://weldingweb.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=54240&stc=1&d=1281775884


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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.

<img src="http://weldingweb.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=54857&stc=1&d=1282934750" /><br />
<img src="http://weldingweb.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=54858&stc=1&d=1282934756" /><br />
<img src="http://weldingweb.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=54859&stc=1&d=1282934762" /><br />

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