Sae Hrafn Due 7/14, & Viking Shipwright Available

[Cap'n Atli]

The Sae Hrafn is on Its Way to the Tidewater and Our Viking Shipwright is Now Available!

Transportation for the Sae Hrafn [Sea Raven] has now been arranged, and we expect delivery on the 14th or 15th of July (depending on traffic, weather, and brush fires), with a Survey Party shortly thereafter to celebrate delivery and make further plans. The Sae Hrafn will be kept at Calvert Marina in Solomons Island, Maryland, on the lower Patuxent. This location provides an excellent harbor, good support facilities, and puts us in easy striking distance of the Chesapeake Bay and its many tributaries. She will need additional work at this end of the country, but we plan to have her operational and in the water as soon as we have her bottom painted in anti-fouling paint and get the topsides and inboard painted and coated. Further details and updates may be found at or web page at www.longshipco.org .

Now that he’s finished with the Sae Hrafn, Kerry Eikenskold is now available for other projects. Further information may be found at: http://ravenkraft.com/ . He does beautiful work, and takes his time to provide a quality job at a fair price. It has long been the Longship Company’s policy to have other, more skilful folks, build our hulls, while we fit them out. (Operations and maintenance is quite labor and money intensive all by themselves, thank you.) After all, King Harald Hardratha didn’t build his own ships, and neither do we. We leave the critical hull in the hands of those with the talent and skill to do the best job, because our lives depend upon it.

Hope to see some of you soon, once we get her here.

Don’t drown!

Atli Vathason