Finnish fishing boat overhaul [Splashed 2017]

Red Herring

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I’m pretty sure the journalist read most of this thread while writing the article. Iboats is even mentioned in a paragraph.

Been working on additional deck boxes while waiting for a weather window to take off. Will get them done by tomorrow. Needed more space for some random stuff that never found it’s place(trash, cans, rear anchor & rode etc).
 

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Red Herring

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We also participated in our first ”work” project with the boat. Towed a barge we built out of stacked beams, planks and roof tin plating to one of the outermost islands outside of Helsinki. The guys will build a new (frankly illegal) public sauna for whoever feels like using it and I promised to help with the transport.

Took us three hours at 3 knots, the boat trashed around like crazy in 12m/s winds and 1.5m waves but somehow the barge held together and we got it to the building site intact.
 

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strokendiesel002

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I thought for sure I was going to see that ant get destroyed by the end of the video 😂

Pretty sweet deal on the ole island retreat, were you towing the other vessel behind the barge or were they just the "chase" vehicle?
 

redneck joe

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i'll get my niece to translate and as far as the copyright, pretty sure they won't mind the few thousand exposures in this, and other, countries for a small magazine.

again, great work
 
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