Kabang 2010 expedition - Stavanger to Oslo

From Stavanger to Oslo in steinalderbåt/Stone(age) Boat from Thailand


Kon -Tiki Museum** and the Ten Thousand Images is Friday 23 July started with a maritime expedition, called " Kabang 2010 " along the Norwegian coast.
Start the Destination Stavanger with the station in Oslo.
" Kabang 2010 " to test the sailing characteristics of the Thai traditional boat Kabang .

Kabang is constructed of a log with a table on pages which makes it capable of sailing the open sea.
The boat belongs originally an advanced maritime technology and Stone(age) is a type of boat that may have been used in Norway in the bronze age.
The expedition is a maritime archaeological experiment, it should include testing of the boat is seaworthy in Norwegian waters.



Sjønomader/Sea Nomads

The expedition would like to engage in cultural exchange between the Norwegian maritime history and Mokenfolket , which is sjønomader/sea nomads who live on Mu Kho Surin Islands in northern Thailand and Burma. Both cultures have lived with and the sea for thousands of years.

Traditionally, living on Mokenfolket kabangbåtene/Stone Age Boat nine months of the year , and live by fishing.
They are excellent divers who often are under water for 6-8 minutes at a time.
Mokena - people is one of the last hunter -gatherer societies, and has taken care forgot boatbuilding traditions from the dawn of time .

Nguk and Ngui , brothers of Gatale family, going to Norway to sail kabangen and share experiences about living on and off the sea with Norwegian maritime culture.
All along the route will be arranged meetings between Gatale brothers and Norwegian archaeologists, Norwegian bårbyggere , local maritime centers and the public.

Start Shots from Stavanger

The expedition will start on Friday 23 July at . 12.00 in the harbor in Stavanger, on the quay at the Maritime Museum .

It also sets the Maritime Museum*** , Stavanger Museum and Archaeological Museum****, UiS*, with boats. Archeological Museum (AM) will provide a copy of a Dugout from the Stone Age.
Archaeologist Olle Hemdorff (AM) will tell a little about båtvitenskap in pre-history and compared the two prehistoric båtene/boats. Stokkebåter/Stokke boats is in fact also made from a hollowed tree trunk , a construction method known throughout the world.
In the Nordic countries are shuffling boats the earliest -known craft .
In Denmark , we have found a number of log boats from the Stone Age.
The oldest of these is over 6000 years old.
Rock carvings in East Åmøy
From Stavanger go trip over to East Åmøy where Bitten hill from the Museum of Archaeology will tell and show the rock carvings from the Bronze Age with båtmotiv/ boat motif .

Rogaland's largest collection of rock art is located on the approximately 6 km ² large island just outside Stavanger on Randaberg , where most of the figures represent the ship.
East Åmøy the collection point for all of Rogaland in the Bronze Age.
3000 years ago cut you here important religious, political and social symbols into the rock.
See film carvings on the East Åmøy +

Moreover, sailing

25. July kabangen arrived at the list where the expedition will visit the largest field with stone carvings from the Bronze Age on Penne farm.
Here kabangen carried / dragged across country on the list Eide, a distance of 900 meters.
This was a route that was used at least in Vvkingtid and perhaps later.
This is done in cooperation with the Norwegian Maritime Museum and researcher Frode Kvalø and Vest-Agder County list and the county archaeologist Franz Arne Styelgard .
Kabang 2010 will be an attraction at the Tall Ships Races in Kristiansand between 29 July and 1 August.
The boat will be on land so visitors can study the boat and speak with Mokenbrødrene Nguk and Ngui. Kabang 2010 is also on the Wooden Boat Festival in Risør 5 -8. August .
The conclusion of the expedition 's 12 Aug. Bygdøynes .

The expedition is documented by a film crew , documentary to be shown for the first time during the international conference and film festival "Early Mon/Man and the Ocean " in Oslo in September 2010.

Practical info

Contacts: Project Reidar Solsvik...
E -mail reidsols@kon-tiki.no,
Project manager Christian Lien Jensen...
and filmmaker Rune Wiik...
Sailors : Nguk ( Hook ) Gatale , Ngui Gatale .
Both are Mokenfolk and have grown up with the culture
on board the boat that sjønomader/sea nomads .
Tanit Noischoun participate as a translator.

Homepage: http://www.moken-projects.com/

Sailing from city center Friday 23 July at . 12.00 ,
at the pier at the Maritime Museum in the harbor. Welcome!

*Article link on University webpage...
http://www.uis.no/nyheter/article26396-12.html

**Kon Tiki Museum link...
http://www.kon-tiki.no/Presse.php
(Note: press release about the Kabang 2010 or Thailand Stone Age Boat)

Expedition Schedule:

23.7 Leave the harbor in Stavanger. Press Conference
23.7 Sailing to Hafrsfjord , Stavanger
25.7 Penne Farm, Lista , bronze carvings
25.7 Lista Eide, dragging the boat over Lista Eide
29.7 Kristiansand. The Tall Ships Races ++
5 - 8.8 Risør. Wooden Boat Festival
12.8 Bygdøynes . Finally ,
Press Conference (Kon -Tiki Museum / Norwegian Maritime Museum

++ link to The Tall Ships 2010 Race...

http://www.hartlepooltallships2010.com/index.php?p=Event+Information&s=The+Tall+Ships


photo of tall ships from webpage

Note: link to one of Norway's Tall Ships, a full rigged training ship, from Oslo in the Regatta is the Christian Radich... http://radich.no/ and another full rigged ship is the SØRLANDET & it's link... http://www.schoolship.no/

***Maritime Museum/Stavanger Museum link...
http://www.stavanger.museum.no/default.aspx?ChannelID=1151


Note: their 2 sailing vessels still in use...



Anna of Sand


Wyvern

**** link for Arkeologisk/Archeological Museum article about Kapang 2010...

http://am.uis.no/forside/nyheter/article26396-4729.html


my photo of rock carvings from Tau
on the way to Pulpit Rock

+ link for Arkeologisk Museum - ipod movie about the rock carvings on the island of Åmøy...

http://am.uis.no/aktuelt/article14601-4727.htm


Note: on Wikipedia there is a list of all known (put up on Wiki) rock carvings in Norway...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rock_carvings_in_Norway

(Note: now that would be an coastal expedition of a different kind, to find them all & photograph them all too--is there a book yet?!)
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The red wonder--back in 1898

Interesting Stories that have been shared with us.


Translations by Sigmund Ronneberg
Norsk text by Harald Tønnesen, translated by Sigmund Rønneberg



In 1996 we celebrate the 100 year jubilee of the first car to arrive in Norway, a Benz Phantom that was used in the area of Gjøvik in the summer of 1896.


The second car to arrive in Norway, came in 1898. "This one also from the Benz factory in Germany. It was the first car in Stavanger, and the first car that rolled on the streets of the capitol.


In the "Stavanger Avis" (Stavanger's newspaper) of Oct. 6, 1898 you could read the following:


"One can now happen to see a motor vehicle in Stavanger. Factory owner Mr. T. Rønneberg has ordered one that is on its way from Germany to Stavanger. It runs on benzene, and can be managed and steered easier than any horse team...


This afternoon the wagon was taken on its first trip. It was excellent. The three of us jumped in and went for a ride in it, several times up and down Jernbaneveien (Railroad street), taking the turns with no effort whatsoever. It felt a little heavy going up the hill from Jernbaneveien to Ladegårdsveien (Ladegård road), but it made it easily passed the theater. With a little practice it should be easier to turn around than any horse. On a flat road, it takes off for real."


In the newspaper "Morgenbladet" of Nov. 15th, the following was written: "We have now, on several occasions, mentioned the motor vehicle imported by Mr. Rønneberg of Stavanger which is now seen in our city.""We met Rønneberg down at Festningsplassen (the plaza of the fort), and were immediately invited for a ride. The wagon achieved a frightening speed. One is tempted to believe there is witchcraft involved in steering and speed regulation, but it all proved to be quite simple."


The Stavanger writer, Theodor Dahl, also writes about "the red car" in his book "The town and its people". They went south to Jæren to visit and had a great new thing to show - a motorboat.



The red wonder stayed in Stavanger a couple of years, but then the engine was taken out and fitted in a boat, and the body was sold to a farmer.


See Link to read more about the Pioneers - all excerpts & the b/w photo above were borrowed from this link... although from that last line it looks like we won't be seeing any red wonder at any local museum here, they were very practical back in the day & probably still are I'm guessing...I love the line about the "frightening speed"--Ooo, faster than a horse full out right?!

www.ronneberg.org/Stories/pioneers.html