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FAROE BOAT

Post by aukepalmhof » Tue Nov 23, 2010 8:21 pm

The Faroe boat is the general term for the double-ended pulling boats of the Faroe Islands, it is a distinct boat type, and the stamp shows us one fitted out with a small inboard engine and used for fishing along the coast and the waters between the islands. The boat descends from the Viking ship.
Clinker built, with a deep oak keel.
The earlier boats could set a narrow-headed square sail, the later types set square-cut dipping lugsail to a mast stepped in the 1st thwart.
The boats were used for all sorts of traffic between the islands, and used also as mail boats.
The type is common on the islands and are in different sizes.

Faroe Islands 1977 100 ore sg23, scott24 ( I believe the type is also depict on the Faroe Islands 1976 125 ore sg20, scott 21.)

Source Aak to Zumbra, a Dictionary of the World’s Watercraft. Log Book.
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