Construction
Norda is a wooden sailing cutter built in Denmark in 1928. It's a construction with double ribs, and with 2 inch molded wooden planks on the outside. The complete hull structure, the underwater planking as well as part of the deck constructions are still original. Only a steel keel is added under the wooden keel, to provide more counterweight in order to add higher masts and more sail. It's sail plan is wishbone ketch.
- construction year: 1928
- shipwarf: Anderson, Frederikssunde (Denmark)
- GT: 46,40 ton
- NT: 13.92 ton
- LOA: 19,49 m
- width: 5,43 m
- minimal freeboard 0,70m
- draught: 2,85m
- motor: PZM Puck (Delfin), UE 680/193, 121 kW, at 2200tpm, 6 cylinders, construction year 1979
- sail area: 170 m2
- crew: 2 to 30
- maximal number of passengers on deck: 40
- number of berths: 2+3+3+4+1 = 13
- number of masts: 2
- number of sails: 5
- comfort: 2 heads, 1 shower, 1 gas-cooker with 4 burners, central heating and woodstove, hot and cold water
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