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| Bertil and Roger in the boathouse. Bertil is responsible for drawing plans and boatbuilding and Roger is responsible for design and maintenance of the web page. |
| Roger and Bertil in a motorsnipa outside the boathouse. |
| Jaktkanot, 13 feet, mostly used for hunting seafowls and small fishing in eastern part of Blekinge. Rowing-boat, but somtimes sailed with a lugsail or spritsail. See boatplan no 5. |
| At the Mårtenssons brothers boat building on East Hästholmen the jaktkanot was developed around year 1900. Together with the blekingseka they were those boat types that mainly was produced there. |
| Three generations of boat builders has through 150 years build boats on East Hästholmen. This boat buildery was build 1934 and is now declared as historic building. |
| This old blekingseka is still in use. It was used for seine, parts of the seine are hanging on the stern. Build by Johan Mårtensson for about 100 years ago. See boatplan no 58. |
| In Kristianopel has the boat builder Edgar Sundén build around 400 flatekor. These were used for small fishing and hunting seafowls at the coast. See boatplan no 12. |
| Interior in Edgar Sundéns bout buildery in 1980's. |
| Blekinge has about 1200 lakes. Flatekan is the definite boat here. Axel Karlsson in W Björnamåla has build several hundreds ekor for this lakes. See boatplan no 39. |
| In Vänern there has mostly been vänersnipor, but also flatekor. This so called platteka could also be used on ice as a iseka, then with a spritsail. |
| The eastcoast in Skåne has no natural harbours. The boats has to be pulled up on land after fishing. Here they are called hommebåtar, but belongs to the type blekingsekor. |
| In Öresund the snipa is ordinary. Because it is close to Denmark the snipor is quite uniform. This one is probably build in Limhamn around 1950. See boatplan no 63. |
| Drawing of a 14 feet blekingseka with spritsail from E Hästholmen. |
| Here a measure of an old blekingseka is in progress. A time-consuming work that eventually results in a few plan sheets. |
| The plans can be used for construction of new boats, but also for construction of models. |
| A hommeboat from Skåne is resting on the seashore while a schooner sail in calm weather. |
| Year 1984-1985 the big vrakeka "Klaura" is build at Eastern Hästholmen. With its 28 foot it is the biggest boat that has been made there. Now it belongs to Blekinge Museum. See boatplan no 35. |
| A recently build motorsnipa in oak with a deck of pine. It is beautiful to look at and the boat really attract attention when it comes chuging. See boatplan no 34. |
| This old smålandseka had its 100 anniversary and is still alive, yet not seaworthy. See boatplan no 74. |
| Soon the old rundgatting will be gone, restored to earth. See boatplan no 47. |
| In Western Näs at Listerlandet there is build bigger and stronger flatekor which is more suitable for open sea. See boatplan no 16. |
| With a decent engine the västranäs-eka do a good speed. |
| The trawler of wood is almost completely gone from our fishing villages. |