Wikingboat Fjord 28

[Norwegianblue]

Wikingboat Fjord 28

I bought my current boat 3 years ago and slowly I'm gathering information about her life, does any body know when and where Wikingboats were imported to the UK? My Boat was built in 1980, Does anybody have another Wikingboat here in the UK?

 

[Norwegian]

Hi there
Iam from Norway an did a quick search for you.. the norwegian boat magazin
Båtliv has a article about Fjord :http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www.batliv.com/wip4/detail.epl?id=153635&cat=5867&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=no&tl=en

Maybe you find some intresting.. ps its translated from Norsk to English by google..

 

[Norwegianblue]

Thank you for the link, Fjord also is a boat manufacturer, however in this case fjord 28 is the model of which were made by Wikingboat.

 

[Norwegian]

Hi again

Try this norwegian site about wikingboats
http://www.wikingboat.no/

Use google to translate

 

[Trundlebug]

Welcome to the forum Mr Norwegianblue - you managed it at last!

Some cracking projects on that site in the link above: transom shower, new cooker, bow thruster, hard top, rudder skeg... looks like you're going to have a busy winter!

Did I hear you say that you'd heard that Wiking boats were imported through Salterns marina / Wessex boats in Poole?

 

[Norwegianblue]

Yes, as I'm aware they import Norwegian boats and have for a while, however the guy I spoke to there has only been there for 27 years and my boat would have been imported around 30 years ago, The boat spent around 15 years on the south coast as far as I can work out

 

[Norwegianblue]

Here are some photos of the Wikingboat Fjord 28, do you know the boat or their history in the uk?

 

[Jim@sea]

Wikingboat Fjord 28
does any body know when and where Wikingboats were imported to the UK?

I seem to remember that Fjord's were sold new by a boat dealer at Windermere from the mid 70's so there are probably a few still around in the Lake district

 

[crofty1984]

Hi, what's the name of the boat?
My parents used to have one called Viking.

 

[Norwegianblue]

Wikingboat fjord

Hi there, sorry for the slow reply.The Boat is now named Tarka however She was renamed and I believe she was called viking acording to the name in the Hull. when did they own her?

 

[crofty1984]

Small world!

From what I can remember, we bought her from the Solent (Portsmouth?) about 1997 and she was kept at Torksey, just off the Trent. We did some sea work in the wash, keeping her at Boston for a couple of summers, and I won the boat handling competition at Notingham in her when I was 16, so that means we kept her until at least 2000. We were also on the Humber a few times. I think we had her for another year or so after that, but sold to get a Cygnus 32 because we found the ride was a bit crashy at sea because it would slam onto the plane in bad weather.

Ford Sabre 6 litre turbodiesel I think.

One job I remember doing is putting hardwood edging on all the (3?) floor panels that cover the engine in the cockpit, and making hardwood inserts to the cross beams that te panels sat on. So if your boat's got that it's almost definitely ours.