Hauling the Viking ship Krampmacken.
The ship had to be taken out of the water at a few ocassions to pass waterfalls (today powerstations).
Everything was taken out to be brought by the waterfall.
The ship was hauled short distances on pieces of wood covered with fat
from sheep.
Longer distances the ship was carried on a special wheel construction.
Hauling the ship down to the river bank.
Local people watching while passing between the rivers
Resting
In 1983 the ship travelled 581 km upstreams in 34 days. It had
to be rowed 259,9 km and sailed 251,5 km. Hauled from the river bank 21.5
km and carried on land on a special wheel construction for 48,1 km.
In 1985 the ship travelled 2726,5 km upstreams and downstreams, mostly
downstreams, in 131 days. It was rowed 1508,5 km, sailed 560 km, hauled
from the river bank 217 km and carried on land 441 km on the wheel construction
by handcraft.
The ship was hauled on land 48 km in 1983 to avoid low water in the river.
In 1985 after having been refused by the Soviet authority to pass through
the Soviet Union, the ship travelled south on the rivers Vistula and San
in Poland and then carried on land through the Dukla pass in the Carpatian
mountains and finally reached the river Ondava in Czechoslovakia.
Again the ship was carried on land in Bulgaria to get faster to the Black
Sea.
Rowing and sailing and
hauling the ship.