Kalmar Nyckel

The Kalmar Nyckel is a replica of a Swedish vessel used to colonise the Delaware. More information at http://www.kalmarnyckel.org/aboutship.asp

This is quite a good video of her although she is under motorised power at the time

I am currently aboard the Kalmar Nyckel, and have posted some new picture to my web album: picasaweb.com.kujakupoet Link Correction http://picasaweb.google.com/kujakupoet

I got an excellent shot of our boatswain climbing the mizzen shrouds to go unfoul the mizzen topsail that insisted on getting sucked under the fighting top in spite of the crow's foot. It is in the album 'Under Way'. Setting the mizzen topsail is rare in the Christina River; some of the crew had never seen it set at all.

You can find a picture of the helmswoman standing on the whipstaff using her body weight to keep it hard over after the command, "Helm hard right." You will also find it in the album 'Under Way'.

I got a picture of the port bower anchor hanging from the cathead which is located in the 'Ship Features' album.

Of course there arm mroe pictures of the ship's cats, located logically enough in the 'Ship's Cats' album.

Sadly, due to the poor connectivity here at the ship, my connection is so poor that I cannot easily give you direct URLs. I hope you enjoy anyhow.

If you would like to see the ship in person, she will be at Lewes, DE, Portsmouth VA, Yorktown, VA, Provincetown, MA, Martha's Vinyard, and other points. I will be crewing most of those voyage, so I'd be happy to say hello to anyone who hails the ship.

Some great pictures. Thanks for sharing

Well that was a pleasant hour ... and I even learned a little bit! Thanks for the great pics!

Fantastic.

Thanks for the kind words. I got a couple of good ones today: we received a fireboat salute in the Port of Wilmington, so I have those pix up, and also a shot of a crewman tying a shroud hitch in the shrouds. Sadly, my picture of our three pound cannon wrapped up in a Chinese stopper did not come out, which makes me sad.

Thanks for the video of the Kalmar Nyckel docking in Yorktown; I'll be on that trip this year.

Picasaweb.com/kujakupoet -- Check the Under Way album.

~K~

Came upon this video which shows quite a bit of the onboard fittings

That's her all right. I recognize several of the crew in spite of the fuzzy picture. I wasn't on that particular trip. We do have a chantey group associated with us -- the Wooden Nyckels.

Particularly noteworthy is the whipstaff -- not many of those in service. Looks like the helm is having an easy time of it; the stick's in the neutral position. The fish davit's on the foredeck, which is a useless chunk of wood if there ever was one. My ankle still hurts from tripping over it while dousing sail at midnight last voyage.

What great pictures and videos. Thanks. In the second video with the chantey singing what is the aluminium area they seem to be crowding round and how much time is generaly spent under sail instead of power?