Dagmar Aaen
 Dagmar Aaen 2007 in the museum harbor Flensburg
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The Dagmar Aaen ( [ʌːn] ) is a traveling to the Arctic converted former Haikutter . It has been owned by Arved Fuchs since 1988 and has been using it for his expeditions ever since. The Dagmar Aaen is the only sailing ship that has crossed both the Northeast Passage and the Northwest Passage .
history
The fisherman Mouritz Aaen 1931 gave the contract to build the Haikutters . He named the ship after his wife Dagmar. The ship was designed for trips both in the North Atlantic and the North Sea . The keel with the number E 510 was laid at the NP Jensen shipyard in Esbjerg , Denmark . It was decided to make the hull and planks out of oak . The planks are 6 cm thick, as the Dagmar Aaen should also be able to freeze in the ice. The spacing between the ribs was chosen so closely that no fist could fit between them. The ship was given a high level of strength through several compartments that were separated by bulkheads. This stable construction makes it possible to dare to take a boat trip through the ice. The Dagmar Aaen proved its stability by surviving a capsize .
The Dagmar Aaen was used for fishing until 1977 . Mouritz Aaen dissolved its cutter shipping company in 1960, then the Dagmar Aaen was acquired by its then captain Johannes Knak, and in 1973 Thor Krarup Jensen bought her. The Dane Nils Bach later bought the ship and converted it. Then he used it as a charter ship, from 1983 for trips with youth groups.
In 1988, the Bad Bramstedt adventurer Arved Fuchs bought the Dagmar Aaen in order to have it converted for trips to the polar regions . The renovation was done at Christian Jonsson's in Egernsund . There the Dagmar Aaen received a new rig and ice reinforcements on the hull. Since then, the ship has been in the shipyard many times, as Fuchs has it specially adapted and repaired for each expedition. In addition, the Dagmar Aaen also takes part in the rum regatta .
During an expedition, a mountain within the Patagonian Ice Sheet was officially named after the ship, Monte Dagmar Aaen , by Pablo Besser .
On his trips by ship, Fuchs documents the changes in nature due to environmental pollution . This made him the Dagmar Aaen during the Sea, Ice & Mountain - Expedition in the Pacific in a protest against French nuclear tests for involvement.
The home port of Dagmar Aaen is Wewelsfleth on the Elbe, but it is permanently in the museum port of Flensburg .
Ship and equipment
- Owner: Mouritz Aaen (1931); Johannes Knak (1960); Thor Krarup Jensen (1973); Nils Bach (1977); Arved Fuchs (1988)
- Building material: 6 cm oak planks on oak frames
- Hull coated with 6 mm special aluminum
- The stern and keel are reinforced with up to 3 cm of steel
- Deck: Oregon Pine
- Mast and pole: 22 m total height, Douglas fir
- Sails: 1 mainsail with three reefing rows
- Headsail: 1 foresail , 1 jib : 1 flyer
- Sail material: Dacron 1 topsail 1 trysail and one storm jib
- Engine: Callesen Diesel 3 cylinder, 132 kW (180 PS) at 500 rpm
- Auxiliary diesel: 12 kW diesel generator 230/400 V, Fischer Panda
- Diesel tank: 4500 l
- Drinking water: 450 l, 1 watermaker, Sea Recovery ( reverse osmosis )
- Navigation: 1 Furuno GPS , 1 Silva GPS, Furuno radar, Furuno echo sounder
- Communication: Hagenuk HF - marine radio , Scanti VHF radio, Inmarsat -C (GMDSS), satellite telephone , Furuno weather fax with NAVTEX
literature
- Niels Bach: The history of the shark cutter using the example of the Dagmar Aaen . RKE-Verlag, Kiel 1992, 1996. ISBN 3-924381-36-4
- Arved Fuchs: No way is too far - The story of the Dagmar Aaen . Delius-Klasing-Verlag, Bielefeld 2009. ISBN 3-7688-2597-3
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry at arved-fuchs.de
- ↑ Arved Fuchs: "Race with the Ice". ISBN 3-462-02367-5
- ↑ a b Arved Fuchs: "Adventure between the tropics and eternal ice". ISBN 3-7688-1353-3