SV Ulladh (ul-la): 2019

Thursday, December 26, 2019

Sunday, December 1, 2019

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Monday, September 30, 2019

Monday, August 12, 2019

2019-8-5 Fortescue NJ harbor entrance south jetty.
The entrance bar is 3 to 4 to 5 ft at low tide. Fixed docks are about 8 ft at low tide.
Tidal range 5ft to 6.5ft with high high about 8ft. High highs would be in a low pressure system and wind from SSW.

2019-8-5 Fortescue NJ beach

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

July 2019

2019-7-2 mainsail and bimini

Monday, June 3, 2019

June 2019

2019-6-17 battens installed

2019-6-17 bridge deck dry fit

2019-6-17 bridge deck cut

2019-6-16 Template for cockpit bridge deck, portable fuel tanks under, to be cut from salvaged teak plywood.
The outboard cowling height prevents loading and unloading portable fuel tanks in lazarette.
This may also become a third seat, step to cabin ladder and maybe a few other things I had not though of.

2019-6-7 Yard, Boom and Sail installed

2019-6-3 on travel lift waiting for high tide

2019-6-3 at dock

Sunday, May 26, 2019

May 2019

Monday, April 8, 2019

April 2019

Monday, March 11, 2019

March 2019

March 11, 2019
A few warm dry days this week after a cold, windy, rainy January and February.
Tarp removed. The wind did the most of removal for me.
Recommenced lazarette modifications for the larger outboard.
http://sv-ulladh-log.blogspot.com/p/kort-nozzle.html

Saturday, February 16, 2019

February 2019

Reeds Beach, NJ West Coast

Ulladh

Ulladh pronounced "ul-la" (null lad).

Uladh the gaelic spelling for the territory of the U-Nail chieftains in the ancient Irish province of Ulster (English/Norse), originally the counties of Down and Antrim, but now including Derry, Armagh, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan, also referred to as Ulidia (Greek/Roman),.

Uladh was the home of a pre-celtic, cruithne (crew-en-ya) pictish tribe, who may have been descendants of prehistoric tribes indigenous to the British Isles since the retreat of the last ice age.

Evidence from cut marks on deer bones from more than 30,000 years ago found in the karst formations of the Burren probably from hunters suggest a homonid precence. Archeological finds date first inhabitants (DNA evidence suggests dark or black skin and blue eyes) to about 6,000 BC and trade goods from Rathlin Island, County Antrim off the northeast coast of Ireland made from porcellanite stone appearing in Egypt and Crete by 2,500 BC.

The early tribes of Ireland where displaced by later waves of migrants from mainland Europe; about 1700 BC by bronze age tribes, celtic tribes about 500 BC, and in the past two millenia; Roman trading posts, Viking settlements, English plantations... and in the 21st century a welcome increasing diversity from the European Union and the world.

SV Ulladh (for vhf clarity I use "sailing vessel ul-la") is named for the territory of the first peoples to settle in Ireland after the retreat of the last ice age.

Fisksatra

Since 1949 Fisksatra Varv in the coastal town of Fisksatra Sweden, built fiberglass boats from dinghies to a 300 ton minesweeper for the Swedish Navy.

The Havsfidra 20's were built between 1968 and the late 1970's to Swedish Navy and Lloyd's certification standards.

The Havsfidra 20 and a larger version the Storfidra 26 where sold in the United States by Continental Yachts and Trawler Agency of Atlantic City NJ.

Havsfidra; sea-feather?
(fidra; to touch or tickle with a feather -Icelandic-English Dictionary, Clarendon Press 1874)