SV Ulladh (ul-la): 2021

Thursday, December 30, 2021

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

September 2021

Several days after Ida we still have debris in the river. Tree and root ball returning up river with the tide.

Sunday, May 2, 2021

May 2021

2021-05-24 Bimini installed

2021-05-23 Lug/Junk sail installed

2021-05-21 splash today

Slip ready for splash

2021-05-14 topping lift installed, gas tank installed, ready for splash.

Sunday, April 4, 2021

April 2021

2021-04-04

Mast raised, registration numbers installed.

2021-04-24

Outboard DC starter cable connected. I may relocate and use a boot.

Anchor and rode installed. More trash cleaned out.

2021-04-30 Mast base sheet cleats installed. Travel lift hydraulic repair work and high winds may create schedule backup and delay splash.

I may remove stanchions (except for bow and stern) and life lines, but add a tether or tether rings, this would be after splash or at next haul-out. I removed the tether rings in the cockpit when I did the bridge deck, but they will be reinstalled next week.

With delayed splash there are so many items I would like to do but will wait. A redesigned mast dutch tabernacle is on the list for this winter and a fore peak hatch for light and ventilation.

Saturday, March 13, 2021

March 2021

March 21, 2021

March 13, 2021

March 13, 2021. Tarp removed, two bags of trash removed.

Rustoleum Topside 2021-03-21

Total Boat Underdog bottom paint 2021-03-30

Saturday, February 6, 2021

February 2021

2021-02-06 most of this weeks snow has melted, more coming tomorrow.

Saturday, January 2, 2021

January 2021

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)