SV Ulladh (ul-la): 2023

Saturday, December 30, 2023

Sunday, November 26, 2023

Monday, October 16, 2023

October 2023

Fortescue NJ

Cedar Creek at Mispillion River DE

6ft control depth

Monday, September 4, 2023

September 2023

Cooks Gut, Reeds Beach NJ

less than 2ft at low tide.

New cushions

Saturday, August 5, 2023

August 2023

Prime painted

Vinyl wall covering removed. Next remove glue residue.

Monday, July 3, 2023

July 2023

Removing vinyl wall covering from forward berth area.

New cushions ordered.

Bimini

Boom Gallows dry fit.

Monday, June 12, 2023

June 2023

Soon

Home again, Home again, Jiggity jig

Mainsail on Alado roller furler

Some adjustments needed to furler drum

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

May 2023

Headsail installed

Underdog bottom paint

Alado head sail roller furler installed

Back stay and Alado stay installed. Topping lift on, mainsheet installed

One lower stay to be shortened.

Gin Pole installed

A mess of stays and shrouds at the mast head.

Sunday, April 16, 2023

April 2023

Mast head change for Alado

Mast head sanded and one coat penetrating epoxy

Mast raising winch installed

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

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)