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Klaraborg was originally named Jesper. Believed to have been originally constructed in 1859, in Vanesborg, Sweden, she was commissioned for work as a Baltic trader, transporting cargos of zinc ore, around the lakes and waters of Sweden.

Klaraborg was a gaff-rigged ketch and was constructed of pine on oak frames -  trunnel fastened. The ship had a double-planked pine hull, on seven inch thick oak frames. The exterior hull was planked with three inch thickness pine and the interior was sheathed in two-and a-half inch thickness pine. This was a very stout ship!

Her pine-planked deck, was eighty feet long and equipped with a thirty-six foot long jib-boom and bowsprit arrangement, making the overall length of the ship one-hundred sixteen feet. Her beam was twenty-two and a-half feet and her draught was eight and a-half feet. She had two eighty-six foot tall masts (a mainmast and mizzen mast) of Douglas fir. She carried approximately 9 working sails of 4500 square feet. She was ballasted with over 30 tons of granite. The scantlings were robust.

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Klaraborg -1900.jpg (33138 bytes)     Klaraborg -1900 002.jpg (76350 bytes)      Klaraborg -1900 005.jpg (64143 bytes)

Sweden Trip 2003 287.jpg (19359 bytes)     Klaraborg-Looking to the deck from the cross-trees.jpg (172406 bytes)    Klaraborg- Brian Wylie in the trees.jpg (133496 bytes)

Klaraborg Postcard.jpg (73272 bytes)    Klaraborg - Navigation Cabin.jpg (126270 bytes)    Klaraborg-Wheel & Binnacle.jpg (88010 bytes)

Klaraborg- Jon Fry on bow watch.jpg (105803 bytes)    Klaraborg- Transiting the Panama Canal.jpg (121677 bytes)    Klaraborg- Yellow-Fin Tuna.jpg (99749 bytes)

Klaraborg-Wheel.jpg (108293 bytes)    Klaraborg-Anchor Windlass.jpg (73848 bytes)    Klaraborg-Repair to Peak Halyard Block.jpg (125778 bytes)

  Klaraborg - Bowsprit.jpg (110898 bytes)   Klaraborg-Skysails.jpg (53661 bytes)    View From Mainmast Cross-Trees.jpg (140843 bytes)   

Klaraborg-Crayfish FDN.jpg (80046 bytes)    Klaraborg - Fishermen FDN.jpg (124220 bytes)    Klaraborg - Panama Canal.jpg (104982 bytes)

Klaraborg- Crew on Deck 1975 Pacific.jpg (114127 bytes)   Ove - Barbados 1974.jpg (49956 bytes)   Klaraborg-Bilge Pumps.jpg (134692 bytes)

Jon Fry - Nuka Hiva '75.jpg (327552 bytes)