We are offering our BB17 Blueberry for sale.

After we sold PEREGRINE we were looking for a small ship which could get us out on our homewaters betweeen busy weeks of sailmaking. But then BJÖRNSUND https://www.bjornsund.de/ appeared and took over our life at once. Now we need to gather all energy to get forward on the restauration of this old danish lady.

BB 17 is a wooden norwegian sailingboat build for both cruising and racing. Build ca. 1965 on the shipyard of Borge Bringsvaerd in Drobak / Oslofjord.

Laminated Mahognie planking, steamd oak-frames, solid oak stevn and keel

Deck marine plywood and teak-planking

All fittings in stainless steel or bronze

Length 7,30m

Length Waterline 4,90m

Width 2.05m

Draft 1,05m

Weight 950kg

Weight ballast 550kg

More information on the class http://www.lamschus.de/Index.htm

Since 2017 we have been engaged to convert Blue Berry into a junk. Our aim was to find a classic, powerfull and light boat which can keep up with Folkeboats and modern designs. Overall weight of about 1t and 50% ballast seemed to match our ideas.

We have reached so far:

* hollow glued wooden spruce mast with glassfiber coating and inserted carbon strings for additional strenght

* new Tabernakel  Mahagoni - strongly and professional constructed by boatbuilder

* new Torqueedo Outboard-Engine Travel 1003 (needs a bracket at the stern)

* dead-wood restored 2018

* new rudder and new ruddershaft ready soon

* new persenning for summer/winter

* underwaterhull painted and varnished 2018 (has neven been in water since)

* new painting above waterline 2018

* new cushions/matrasses 2019

* new german Wiek-Trailer 2018 with 100km/h allowence

* new 26sqm cambered junk-sail Weatermax80 with alloy battens + wooden glued yard

* new mastcap stainless steel

* new top-light (needs to be mounted)

Hull is by now totaly empty and fitted out with a plywood floor to put sleeping-matrasses. We still keep the old interiour benches which can follow the boat.

Deck/roof seams needs some caulking. To get sailing the rope-work needs to be finished. Until now we just have a halyard with Selden-blocks (new).

We ask 15.000,-€ mainly because of new trailer, new engine and many new features.

Blue Berry is based in Greifswald, Germany and ready to leave by trailer at half an hour :)

Please send an email to ahoi@tuchwerkstatt.de

All the best

Sebastian