Henrik Engblom // Tall Ship Pommern
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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#225. Henrik Engblom is the bosun on the tall ship Pommern, one of the classic Cape Horn clipper ships that sailed out of the Aland Islands in the early 20th century. Aland is a Swedish-speaking but legally Finnish archipelago in the Baltic Sea, about 40 miles northeast of Stockholm, and home to a rich cultural & maritime history. Only in his 20s, Henrik, a native Alander Islander, is already a Master Rigger and in charge of Pommern's restoration. Mia & I visited the ship back in 2013 when we sailed to Aland on Arcturus. I was excited to be back last summer aboard Isbjorn, when in August Henrik gave me a tour of the ship and talked to me at length about his career.
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| 0:00.0 | So we're on Pomeron, built 1903. |
| 0:03.0 | She was built to sail St. Peter from Argentina, Chile to England. |
| 0:10.0 | And then she had a couple of layments. |
| 0:14.0 | The Pomerne, one of the legendary Cape Horn clipper ships. |
| 0:18.0 | Last summer I got to visit her in the Orland Islands in the Baltic Sea and speak with |
| 0:22.7 | Master Rigger Henrik Engblum, who was in charge of her restoration. |
| 0:27.6 | Ship owner of Orlon Islands bought her and then he started a big grain race. |
| 0:32.7 | Pomeron was one of the grain race ships owned by the legendary Gustav Erickson. |
| 0:37.3 | He went down to Australia, got the grain and delivered it to England. |
| 0:42.3 | Erickson owned almost all of the famous clipper ships in that era. |
| 0:47.3 | He had most of them here. |
| 0:49.3 | He had the Pomann, he had the Premier, he had Herzeg and Cecil, the most famous of the mall. |
| 0:55.0 | It was his flagship. |
| 0:57.0 | Really, really, really amazing ship. |
| 1:00.0 | They're all amazing ships, the Palmern included, and being a bored one gives a sense of awe that you just can't get in the photos. |
| 1:08.0 | Before we sat down for a proper interview, Henrik gave me a tour |
| 1:11.6 | on deck, and amongst the noise and dust, described the work he and his team were doing to restore |
| 1:17.5 | and preserve the ship's history. So what's going on? Right now, in the front, we're repairing |
| 1:25.0 | some steel, some iron that has been quite bad. |
| 1:29.3 | She's quite old, the lady, so some things we need to repair. |
| 1:33.8 | But as I said, we're a historical ship with museum, a tradition. |
| 1:38.5 | So we do it with methods that doesn't destroy the appearance of the ship. |
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