Facts: Callsign: LCLB Name: Cardinal Register: NOR - .(the Norwegian Ship Register) (http://www.nis-nor.no) Hometown: Bergen, Norway. Tel- onboard: +47 21 68 39 92 Year Buildt: 1935 (http://www.nis-nor.no)
Dimensjons: Overall lenght: 15,57m - 51,4"” Breadth: 4,25m - 14,0"” Deapth: 1,90m - 6,2”" Gross tonnage: 20,0 ton Main-mast: 16,7m. Mizzan-mast: 10,0m. Sails: Trad. gaff-rigged Ketch, 118 sqm. Engine: Scania D11
The name's origin: It is the Northern Cardinal bird that has given the "Cardinal" name, logo, therefore, is also a Cardinal. Cardinal marks are an international seamarks (North - south brands). The Lobster is also called Cardinal. And it is a fish also known as Cardinal, as the name "Cardinal" has a solid foundation in the maritime environment.
Cutter are originally a small sailing ship with one mast. The main sail is fork sail and top-sail. Cuts will also have three forseil: Blowing, jib and jager. Cutter (Norwegian:"Kutter") is a term for a small fishing vessels of English origin. This type of Cutters was also popular in Norway from 1880 until 1920. During this period, many English fishermen went to the engine and Norwegian fishermen bought their old boats. The "Kutter" was used in the seasonal fisheries as Herring and Mackerel. Besides fishing season was these boats used in the shipping along the coast. It was developed own, Norwegian cutter types: Møre-kutter and Hardanger-kutter.
Many kuttere was imported from England, and was a role model for the Norwegian ship-builders. It was also many ship-builders in Norway who received scholarship and was sent to Holland to learn more about how ship-builders in Holland built the "Sloops".
The old Norwegian kutter was dropped, (in Hardanger they where called: “"Slupp"”), they where very extended in the hull, but eventually they became narrower aft, and eventually also more “slender” in the bow. Especially for "Hardanger-kutter" in the recent past was they were built for fast sailing, "herring sailing" in contrast to, for example, "Møre-kutter", which was built to withstand rougher seas, with steeper astern, and more rounded in the shape . In Hardanger were the main features that the astern was flatter and had more length. The disadvantage of the hull was that they beat more both front and aft in rough seas.
Most "Hardanger-kutter" were built in Hordaland. Some of the most notable are Ølve, Rosendal, Sunde, Halsnøy, Sagvåg and Jondal. They were also built vessels to other places where they had access to materials (Norwegian Pine" and professionals to lead the work
A ketch is a sailing craft with two masts: a main mast, and a shorter mizzen mast abaft (rearward) of the main mast, but forward of the rudder. Both masts are rigged mainly fore-and-aft. From one to three jibs may be carried forward of the main mast when going to windward. If a ketch is not rigged for jibs it is called a cat ketch, sometimes called a periauger. On older, larger ketches the main mast may in addition carry one or more square rigged topsails. A ketch may also carry extra sails, see below. The lowest fore-and-aft sail on the main mast is called the mainsail, while that on the mizzen is called the mizzen sail. These may be any type of fore-and-aft sail, in any combination. The Scots Zulu, for example, had a dipping lug main with a standing lug mizzen.