Mallard ducklings @ Lake Höytämönjärvi

(phone quality)

Selfmade fish-trap

(phone quality)

Crow and a few flowers 08-07-2012

Old traditional Finnish rowboat - the repair project

(all photos in this post are phone quality)

Exterior in the beginning

(the boat was coated with some nasty black paint unsuitable for boats)

Exterior in the beginning

Interior in the beginning

Exterior scraped clean

(enormous job, since the old paint didn't get off easily)

A hole made by rock

(the boat was left in the ice for whole winter)

Cracks in the drying wood

Cracks in the drying wood

Hole in the stern

(the water melted from snow did this)

Filling the cracks with tarred cloth

(the cloth and wood both swell when they get wet and the crack goes water tight)

Filling the cracks with tarred cloth

Covering the clothed cracks tightly with wood pieces

(there is as big piece of cloth under the wood as the wood piece is)

Covering the clothed cracks tightly with wood pieces

Covering the clothed cracks tightly with wood pieces

Tarred exterior

(it starts to look like a boat again)

Tarred exterior

Tarred exterior

Scraped clean interior

New inner stern

(you can't take off the old stern completely, since the ends of the board planks are attached to it)

New outer stern

New outer stern

New outer stern tarred

(it came out pretty nice and more importantly water tight)

Back thrawn under construction

Front thrawn under construction

Front thrawn under construction

Finished exterior

(not the finest rowboat in the world, but pretty decent and just perfect for our fishing trips)

Finished interior

(the boat measures in 5,45m long and 1,45m wide)