The restoration of "Gnisten"
"Gnisten" was brought indoors in Jyllandsgade in August 2004. To complete the restoration, The History of Frederikhavn's Shipyard's organisation had to apply for funding from different places, as the organisation itself did not have the necessary funds for such a large task.
A meeting was held in Jyllandsgade on Monday, 30th August 2004 with Ole Vejling, Area Manager of Spar Nord Bank, who naturally wanted to see "Gnisten" before he would commit any money to the project.
Also present at the meeting were, Torben Erikstrup, Ib Bjoern Poulsen, Leif Schmidt, Vagn Randrup and Kim Larsen.
On Monday 27th September 2004, we met again to lift "Gnisten" off its support. We needed to find out how to prop up and chock up the ship. The keel had to be removed and a new one fixed so the ship would not overturn.
There is a funny story about a ship overturning. A woman was on her first sailing trip when the weather became rough. She went to the ship's captain and asked him if the ship would overturn. The captain told her to relax as ships did not overturn they capsized. Upon hearing this the woman said, "thank goodness for that" and was happy.
On Thursday 30th September 2004, we welcomed a committee from the Labour Market in Jyllandsgade, who wanted to see what the "Gnisten" project was all about. Ib told the committee what the project was about and they were all very interested.
On Thursday 28th October 2004, Ole Vejling from Spar Nord Bank visited Jyllandsgade once again.
This time it was to hand over a cheque for 45,000 kroner for a propulsion system, or in everyday language, an engine, for "Gnisten". This took place with a small ceremony astern on the ship.
Vagn Randrup accepted the cheque on behalf of the organisation because he was the eldest member of the committee but he quickly had to pass it on to Ib, to Vagn's great disappointment.
Dockworkers, people from Jyllandsgade and journalists attended the ceremony, so we hope it will create awareness about our organisation and about the "Gnisten" project.
At the time of writing, The Lauritzen Fund has granted us 45,000 kroner for wood and sails and we would like to express our sincere thanks to them.
Thursday, 16th November 2004 a new fitting was made to support "Gnisten". The fitting was attached to the building's steel rafters so the ship could be hung on these if necessary. Also four wooden supports were made as an extra support for the ship.
The old keel was also removed and on Tuesday, 14th December 2004, Erling Joergensen, Knud Erik Andersen and Bent Boerge Hansen started work on building a new keel. On each side a groove was carved, where the planking has to be attached. This process is hard to describe in words, it has to be seen.
On Tuesday, 4th January 2005 the new keel was fitted with wooden keel chocks underneath it.
On Wednesday, 12th January 2005 the old bow was removed and Vagn has made a template and will start to make a new bow.
On Tuesday, 18th January 2005, Vagn, Knud Erik, Bent Boerge and Joergen had started making the new bow. It was already marked and now had to be transported to Ole Graugaard, who was to saw it. The bow was sawn and sent to have further work done to it. The bow had to be smaller in front, so a great deal of planning had to be done to it.
Bent Boerge and Joergen started making a template of the curve of the stern and Knud Erik started making new midship floor timbers. So slowly but surely, progress is being made.
We are still busy on Tuesday, 25th January and we paint, talk and plane and when the bow and keel are finally placed in the correct positions, it looks like a completely new ship. A magnificent piece of work was done by everybody.
At the aft part of the ship, Bent Boerge, Joergen and Ib are dismantling the old stern. There turned out to be more work involved with this than we first thought. Some reasons were that the quality of the wood was poor, some bolts went right through and the men did not use the large hammer.
But practise makes perfect and soon the large hammer was used on the stern and all the troubles soon ended. So now there is place for a new stern to be fitted.
How the large hammer came to be used, will not be told here, as we have to have something to write about later too.
"Gnisten" was brought indoors in Jyllandsgade in August 2004. To complete the restoration, The History of Frederikhavn's Shipyard's organisation had to apply for funding from different places, as the organisation itself did not have the necessary funds for such a large task.
A meeting was held in Jyllandsgade on Monday, 30th August 2004 with Ole Vejling, Area Manager of Spar Nord Bank, who naturally wanted to see "Gnisten" before he would commit any money to the project.
Also present at the meeting were, Torben Erikstrup, Ib Bjoern Poulsen, Leif Schmidt, Vagn Randrup and Kim Larsen.
On Monday 27th September 2004, we met again to lift "Gnisten" off its support. We needed to find out how to prop up and chock up the ship. The keel had to be removed and a new one fixed so the ship would not overturn.
There is a funny story about a ship overturning. A woman was on her first sailing trip when the weather became rough. She went to the ship's captain and asked him if the ship would overturn. The captain told her to relax as ships did not overturn they capsized. Upon hearing this the woman said, "thank goodness for that" and was happy.
On Thursday 30th September 2004, we welcomed a committee from the Labour Market in Jyllandsgade, who wanted to see what the "Gnisten" project was all about. Ib told the committee what the project was about and they were all very interested.
On Thursday 28th October 2004, Ole Vejling from Spar Nord Bank visited Jyllandsgade once again.
This time it was to hand over a cheque for 45,000 kroner for a propulsion system, or in everyday language, an engine, for "Gnisten". This took place with a small ceremony astern on the ship.
Vagn Randrup accepted the cheque on behalf of the organisation because he was the eldest member of the committee but he quickly had to pass it on to Ib, to Vagn's great disappointment.
Dockworkers, people from Jyllandsgade and journalists attended the ceremony, so we hope it will create awareness about our organisation and about the "Gnisten" project.
At the time of writing, The Lauritzen Fund has granted us 45,000 kroner for wood and sails and we would like to express our sincere thanks to them.
Thursday, 16th November 2004 a new fitting was made to support "Gnisten". The fitting was attached to the building's steel rafters so the ship could be hung on these if necessary. Also four wooden supports were made as an extra support for the ship.
The old keel was also removed and on Tuesday, 14th December 2004, Erling Joergensen, Knud Erik Andersen and Bent Boerge Hansen started work on building a new keel. On each side a groove was carved, where the planking has to be attached. This process is hard to describe in words, it has to be seen.
On Tuesday, 4th January 2005 the new keel was fitted with wooden keel chocks underneath it.
On Wednesday, 12th January 2005 the old bow was removed and Vagn has made a template and will start to make a new bow.
On Tuesday, 18th January 2005, Vagn, Knud Erik, Bent Boerge and Joergen had started making the new bow. It was already marked and now had to be transported to Ole Graugaard, who was to saw it. The bow was sawn and sent to have further work done to it. The bow had to be smaller in front, so a great deal of planning had to be done to it.
Bent Boerge and Joergen started making a template of the curve of the stern and Knud Erik started making new midship floor timbers. So slowly but surely, progress is being made.
We are still busy on Tuesday, 25th January and we paint, talk and plane and when the bow and keel are finally placed in the correct positions, it looks like a completely new ship. A magnificent piece of work was done by everybody.
At the aft part of the ship, Bent Boerge, Joergen and Ib are dismantling the old stern. There turned out to be more work involved with this than we first thought. Some reasons were that the quality of the wood was poor, some bolts went right through and the men did not use the large hammer.
But practise makes perfect and soon the large hammer was used on the stern and all the troubles soon ended. So now there is place for a new stern to be fitted.
How the large hammer came to be used, will not be told here, as we have to have something to write about later too.
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