Newest, largest, oldest and smallest fishing boat, from Norwegian Broadcasting

[Raggi_Thor]

Some interesting pictures even if you don't understand the language :-)

http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/klipp/246653

The first 5 minutes is about one of the newest and largest fishing boats in Norway. It looks like a luxury cruise ship and the crew of 9 is wearing t-shirts. This boat catches 200 tons of mackerel worth 3 million NOK (half a million USD) on one trip. The mackerel is sold 5 minute after it's catched and 20 minutes after return to land the fish is on it's way to Japan.

The next boat ( after 5 minutes) is probably one of the smallest, owned and operated by a woman in Lofoten. She catches cod worth 22.000NOK (less than 4000USD) on one trip after two days of bad weather and hours of work on sea and later on land.

The third boat is probably the oldest operating fishing boat in Norway, catching brisling (a small herring) in a fjord. The fish is kept 5 days in the net to empty it's stomach before it's catched.

The other video (from the week before) has some very nice pictures of Oselvars and viking ships!

[Bergalia]

Hi Raggi. Interesting page. Worth the patient wait.
Reminds me that there used to be a beautiful Norwegian Crabbing Boat moored in the Caledonian Canal Basin in Inverness, Scotland back in 1970.
She's been 'tarted' up and was used as a live-aboard by a couple of grey-haired water gypsies. Her papers showed she'd been built in 1901 in Lavik which I believe is on the Sögnafjorden. Can't recall her builder unfortunately. Perhaps they no longer exist. But a beautiful example of timber work.

[Raggi_Thor]

Yes, Lavik is in Sognefjord, the world's longest fjord :-)
http://www.sognefjord.no/

Larvik is another place, on the southern coast, the home of Colin Archer, a famous Norwegian with parents from Scotland, I believe.

[safewalrus]

Video not working for me I'm afraid, pity from what I did see it looked good!

[Bergalia]

Originally Posted by Raggi_Thor

Larvik is another place, on the southern coast, the home of Colin Archer, a famous Norwegian with parents from Scotland, I believe.

Ah Raggi, where would you Norwegians be with we Scots....Grieg was another I believe...

[safewalrus]

Blown away bunch of Danes the lot of ye, just the Norwegians got there first is all! Not like us English (but I will admit there is a little bit of Danish in us too - got a lot to answer for them Danes!!) a proud race of pure barstewards, not a mixture, we're the genuine article!!

[Bergalia]

Originally Posted by safewalrus

... a proud race of pure barstewards, not a mixture, we're the genuine article!!

Let me see now. The English:Angles, from the Germanic race; present day English line interbred with Saxons, Danes, Celts, French, Spaniards...Hey Walrus, my dog has fewer breeds in its 'pedigree...'

[Raggi_Thor]

Norway, Sweden and Denmark is almost the same :-)
We where different tribes, not nations, until the viking era, approx 1000AD. Then we made a union of the three nations in Kalmar in Sweden in 13 something(?). After some wars Norway became a Danish colony until we made our own constitution an 1814, but then we had to share the king with Sweden and had no independent foreign affairs, until 1905 when we became an independent kingdom again. And guess what, who became king Haakon? We imported a danish prince for that :-) In many ways Norwegians feel like Canada vs USA, Scotland vs England and maybe New Zealand vs Australia (if they have any relationship?). We used to feel like the little brother with stronger and more powerful neighbours. After we happened to find oil in the North Sea this has changed in practice, but maybe not mentally, even if all waiters in Oslo now are swedes.

[safewalrus]

Tribes ARE small nations Raggi, but I know what you mean! (luckily Bergalia we ain't got much Scots in us even if we did pinch one of your Kings, and we now have a few unsavioury politicians from your part of the world - Oh I forgot you were deported or was it exported years ago!

[Raggi_Thor]

This is more than normal "off topic", but I thought you guys might want to see what we are doing a Sunday late in April in the middle of Norway :-)

Just a few examples..
http://minvideo.no/view_video.php?vi...9a85350aa803dc
http://minvideo.no/view_video.php?vi...10988909667933
http://minvideo.no/view_video.php?vi...eef4090dc9320e
http://minvideo.no/view_video.php?vi...50db6e7f4b77c6
http://minvideo.no/view_video.php?vi...0152bbd823bdbf

So, it's a while before we gos sailing...

[Bergalia]

Skiing on the Sabbath. Is there no end to Norwegian depravity.....

[Raggi_Thor]

Sorry for that, we ski the whole easter also, even on long friday.

[safewalrus]

Just a thought Bergalia but my dog has less fleas on his coat than we have Scotsmen living off the English - he's tells me they don't hurt as much either!

[Bergalia]

Originally Posted by safewalrus

Just a thought Bergalia but my dog has less fleas on his coat than we have Scotsmen living off the English...

'Fewer' fleas Walrus. Let's be grammatically correct. Fewer in number - less in volume. And we know in reality it's the English who rely on the Scots. Thin Red Line, porage, kippers, Jimmy Shand and all that...

[Pericles]

Safewalrus,

http://www.vdare.com/sailer/070415_diverse.htm

Also, see the comments here.
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2007/04/blood-of-isles.html

Raggi,

It looks like the British are an older nation than the Scandinavians, because the last ice age took longer to release your land from its frozen grip, whereas we Proto Brits were able to straggle across the land bridge 12,000 years ago, when the Thames was a tributary of the Rhine. I enjoy History, Anthropology and Geography, which is why I reckon another Mount Toba type incident in the next 25 years is likely to catastrophically reverse global warming, by plunging the planet into a volcanically induced ice age that will finish of 95% of human life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Toba

http://www.*******.org/BOOK/original...Toba/textr.htm

Why am I not wailing and pulling out my hair? Because clever apes are only a blip in the scheme of things. The Earth is 4.6 billion years old and will last another 5 billion until the sun becomes a red giant and expands its diameter to 250 million miles swallowing up the three inner planets.

The fact that we evolved is no evidence to suggest we are that special. Yes, we have done a lot in 12,000 years but the ice will soon be back and freezing is not a nice end. When Europe freezes the people will hotfoot it to sunnier climes and Africa will see migrations that will dwarf any that we are seeing at present from Africa to Europe.

Do not for one instant think the Europeans will be asking politely for some living room from the Africans. It will be ethnic cleaning on an unprecedented scale. Africa's population is only 900 million compared with 450 million Europeans with a weapons inventory of overwhelming force and they will be used, as it'll be everyone for themselves in the last scramble to exist.

Perivale (Destroyer of Illusions)
Pericles