Boat building , repair and refurbishment
| Boat building , repair and refurbishment | |
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| Contact | iain |
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| Type | Intangible |
| Omeka | Link |
| Talk Page | Link |
To build wooden boats was a skill lots of people knew in the old days, and everybody who owned a wooden boat had to know a little bit about how to repair it and mend it. Now this commom knowledge is gone bacause the use of the boats are gone. Yngve Ingebrigtsen was one of the last students that learnt how to build wooden boats. But he has never built boats in his occupation. He has worked in the workshop in Sørvågen mainly mending boats and refurbished them. But to do that you have to know how they are built. He has dream though of one day building his own boat. He knows exactly how it should be. There is an oral tradtion that is connected to the wooden boat that the fishermen have learned by experience. This is very valuable knowledge that is not written down. Learning by doing.