The short film "Klinkbåten - a Nordic cultural heritage" had its premiere - part of a project to save the wooden boat

The short film "Klinkbåten - a Nordic cultural heritage" had its premiere recently. It is part of a large Nordic project with the aim of saving the wooden boat in general and the brick boat in particular. A construction technique dating back to the Viking Age and further back than that.

The boat building teacher: "Being in the times"

Despite that, according to boatbuilding teacher Erik Holst, it is highly relevant.

- It is in the era of sustainable materials. We have plenty of boats that have been in Sweden for both 100 and 150 years and that are still being renovated continuously, says Erik Holst.

The film is partly recorded on the boat building line at the folk high school outside Trosa, where several young people study and build their own clinker boats.

- There is hope when young people take an interest in an old cultural heritage and want it to live on, says film producer Ulf Bertilsson.

On the Unesco list since 2021

In 2021, Unesco chose to add the Nordic clinker boat tradition to the list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity.

In the video at the top: The teacher explains - this is how a brick boat is built.