Snipa no. 8

Christian Christiansson of Arild in the Kullabygden district of north-west Skåne built this small snipa; the site gives no date. Bertil Andersson measured her in October 1979, at 4.875 m by 1.53 m.

Snipa is a name often stretched to cover any double-ender, but Andersson reserves it for the older open boats that are slim in their lines and sharp at both bow and stern, light to row and descended from Viking-age boats. The stems still rise a little above the sheer, purely because it looks right. This set gives three 1:10 sheets, construction, frames and lines, with no sail plan, so she is drawn as a hull to be rowed or rigged at the builder's discretion.