Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Viking"
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Source, location, date:
Axel Franzen,
Neuhaus,
2002
Source, location, date:
Axel Franzen,
Neuhaus,
2003
Technical data of the sailing ship:
| Name: | Viking |
| Ex-names: | Lumme |
| Registered port: | Neuhaus |
| Nation: | GER |
| Type of rigging: | KUTTER |
| Type of ship: | Gaffelkutter, Danske Jagt (Dänische Jagt) |
| Year built: | 1980 |
| Yard: | Shipmakers, Hamburg, GER |
| Overall length: | 12.50 m |
| Length (hull): | 9.20 m |
| Breadth: | 3.00 m |
| Draught: | 1.25 m |
| Sail area: | 64 m2 |
| Ship's hull: | Komposit / Composite |
| Power: | 20 PS |
| Engine: | Bukh Diesel |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 29 Sep 2002
- built 1980 by Shipmakers GmbH in Hamburg as gaff rigged cutter, a so-called Danish Jagt, first she was named the "Lumme".
- 1995 renamed the "Viking".
- 2002 purchased by A. Franzen, who reverses some of the changes of his predecessor, so she will appear in her original appearance after this.
- private use, she lays in Neuhaus on the river Oste, main sailing region is the mouth of the river Elbe and the North Sea along the German coast.