Tromsø Farvehandel støtter Tromsø Roklubb

Robåterne, som Tromsø Roklubb har fået af Bestumkilen Roklubb og Christiania Roklub i Oslo, er alle ældre båter, som har en del slid og skader. Derfor må vi bruge tid og penge på at reparere båterne. Da det allerede har kostet omkring 25.000 kroner at transportere robåterne fra Oslo til Tromsø, så har Tromsø Roklubb en meget stram økonomi indtil videre.

Vi i Tromsø Roklubb er derfor meget glade for hjælpen, som vi netop har modtaget fra Tromsø Farvehandel ved Odd Erik Hagen-Olsen i form af lak og epoxy-lim til at reparere den første af robåterne.

Vi har i løbet af denne uge repareret en knækket ræling, lappet flere småhuller og slebet rælingen helt i bund. Nu er vi ved at lakere rælingen op igen. I helgen bliver båten klar til den første rotur!

Tak Tromsø Farvelhandel!

Work-in-progress:

Boat Transport 5

Reserved for description of the boat transport.

For now you will just get these two pictures of the boats when they arrived in Tromsø:

Time for an update 2

The website has been quiet some weeks, but that is not because nothing has happened. On the contrary, so much has been going on that I havn't  had much time for writing here.

I spent the past three weeks organizing and executing the boat transport from Oslo to Tromsø. It was a looong drive and I also had to return the car and trailer to Oslo. I will tell the story later, today I just want to say that back in May I wrote:
"There are two main priorities for Tromsø Roklubb right now.
1) Transporting the boats from Oslo to Tromsø
2) Finding a boat house for the rowing club"

Now we can check off the first and fokus on finding or establishing a permanent boat house.

Boat transport 4

Today I received a preliminary trailer license, so now we can proceed with planning of the boat transport! E-mails are flying back and forth between Oslo and Tromsø.

Boat transport 3

Today I have started with the trailer driving lessons at my own expense. I should be able to finish the lessens within a week. The next obstacle is then administrative waiting time for my new license. I have had to trade in my Danish drivers license to swap it for a Norwegian license. That apparently can take 3 months or more... Then I can apply for the upgrade of my driver license to include the trailer license.

I am hoping it will be possible to receive a preliminary trailer license as soon as I finish the trailer training, but I don't know for sure yet if that will be possible.

More updates will follow as the situation develops.