Culturality
The Horizon Europe project “Culturality” addresses cultural heritage in rural and peripheral areas to promote creative tourism and sustainability.
03 March 2025
Museum Nord participates in the Horizon Europe project CULTURALITY, where we map and interview companies that are founded on local ingredients and traditions. In addition to craftsmen who, through their work, convey and pass on cultural heritage, and other cultural actors within the spectrum of intangible cultural heritage.
This week we have interviewed Yngve Ingebrigtsen at Samhold Slip AS in Sørvåg in Øksnes municipality.
Yngve was educated as a boat builder at Rognan. The school there was closed down after he left. He is also a trained carpenter. Yngve has been working with the repair and restoration of wooden boats for almost 30 years now he tells us.
At the slipway in Sørvågen, the modern and the traditional go hand in hand. In part of the room there is a smaller fiberglass boat, but the boat Yngve is working on is the fishing boat MK Lykken from 1939. The boat is protected by the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage and owned by Øksnes Kystlag.
There is a lot of work to be done on the boat. Moisture damage over time has led to a lot of wood having to be replaced. The actual removal of the old is often done with modern, electric tools. Afterwards, Yngve returns with more traditional tools when the boat is to be rebuilt.
He says that there is a visible difference between work done with modern tools and traditional, manual tools.
If something is machine planed, then it looks machine planed, you can see that it is not done with the same tool. What was built with traditional tools must be repaired with traditional tools.
“But the manual drill is no longer used,” he says. – We use an electric drill now.
Some of the projects Ynge works on are small things that may take a day or two to complete, others may take several years. One challenge can be financing. Restoring a boat like MK Lykken is naturally not cheap, and funds must be raised to make it happen. Since the school that educated Yngve no longer exists, it eventually also becomes difficult to find people who has the know how. Yngve Ingebrigtsen says that theory and practice belong closely together. You need to build a boat to learn how to build a boat, it cannot be learned in a book or on the internet.
We give thanks for allowing us to visit the slipway in Sørvågen, and wish Yngve Ingebrigtsen good luck with his work with MK Lykken!
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This project has received funding by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 101132628 – CULTURALITY