>>1768852It's because we have the manpower. This boat is owned by a student organisation with quite a bit of active members. This means we're able to keep up the oak authentically with a couple of layers of linseed oil and a couple of layers of a mixture of boiled linseed oil and pine resin. We have to scrape it off and reapply it every winter, and it sticks like all hell, but it does keep the wood better than the wood laquer most folks use.
These boats used to be built to last about 20 to 50 years, and then to be scrapped and rebuilt. This one was already a fossil when it was bought for less than scrap value in the sixties. It was something a lot of students did back in the days; Buy a cheap decomissioned sailing fisher, and sail it untill it sinks. However me, and all people before me have gone mad and are still trying to keep it afloat by switching out some of the worst bits of wood every other summer. It's an ever unfinished project, but it's extremely worth it.
Last year we sailed from Amsterdam to Århus, and back. This ship was absolutely not built for the north sea, but all went smoothly except for a leak near germany.
