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The Knarr (plural Knarrer) is a Bermuda rigged, long keeled, sailing yacht designed in 1943 by Norwegian Erling L. Kristofersen. Knarrer were traditionally built in wood, with the hull upside down on a fixed frame, then attaching the iron keel after the hull was completed. The hull planks were manufactured with convex and concave edges (bead and cove) and glued together. Since 1973, this design has been built in glass-reinforced plastic with the same weight distribution as the original wooden version.
The Knarr is mostly found in Norway, Denmark and San Francisco. There are some vintage knarrer in Northern Germany, some racing and some just cruised for pleasure, sailing under their historic Scandinavian sail numbers as classics.
In 2010 the International Knarr Championship (IKC) were held at the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco. Since 1969, The IKC has been held annually alternating between San Francisco, Copenhagen, Oslo and Bergen. Since 2004, Knarrs have been built by a boat builder in Germany.
Usage examples of "knarr".
Ulf, since the men knew the knarr better than a husband knows his wife.
By the water, where the knarr lay at anchor and the great long-ship was drawn up on the shore, a white ox was slaughtered.
Still, when Ulf told him both he and Somerled would be traveling on the knarr, Eyvind put up no argument.
Besides, with eight oars on the knarr and a crew of only ten, it was evident that he would be able to make himself useful.
The folk huddled in the bows of the knarr, their small bundles by them.
The cargo was loaded below, and beneath it the knarr bore a ballast of smooth river rocks.
Eyvind opened his mouth to shout a warning, but the crewmen moved too fast, the whisker-pole swung across, shifting the great crackling sail, and the knarr juddered and swung after it, obedient to the wind.
Firehead had not moved from where he stood in the stern of the knarr, alone.
Eyvind was beginning to relax, thinking that there was not so far to go now, and perhaps they might get there without further trouble, when there was a sudden bellow from the stern of the knarr, followed by a chorus of shrieks from the passengers.
He got to his feet, studying the great, limp body and thinking that the open deck of a knarr, with rain beginning to slant in, was scarcely the ideal spot for cutting joints of meat.
On the knarr, they manned the oars, but the current pulled so hard it threatened to rip the lengths of heavy pine from their hands, and the vessel plunged ahead on her own wild course.
The angry waters were full of white spray, and the knarr pitched and tossed, timbers groaning in protest.
Those fellows who had crewed the knarr had all moved up from Hafnarvagr to the settlement by the lake, and wandered about armed with cudgels and short swords.
And seven other men, including five who had crewed the knarr, not seasoned warriors, but known to be dogged fighters with a few of their own tricks up their sleeves.
One of the men from the knarr lay moaning on his back, both hands pressed tight to his belly.