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Thomas Frank and Jevgeni Dernovoi, who undertook the sea voyage from Soomaa to Tallinn in a dugout canoe made from a hollowed tree a week ago, were welcomed at the Seaplane Harbour Marina.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018It is a remarkable opportunity to welcome one of the oldest types of a boat, a dugout canoe made from a hollowed tree, which was mainly commonly found among indigenous people, including Finno-Ugric people. As of 2021, the dugout canoe is also included in the UNESCO world heritage list,\u2019 said Hele Kiimann<\/strong>, Head of Research of the Estonian Maritime Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The dugout canoe man Aivar Ruukel<\/strong> explained the background of how and with whom the boat arrived and where the idea came from: \u2018In September 2021, I happened to read on Facebook about Thomas Frank\u2019s expedition by the waterways (primarily by the Volga River) from Staraya Ladoga to the Caspian Sea, the route which is referred to as \u2018from the Varangians to the Persians\u2019 by historians. In December, we had a zoom call with Thomas to discuss the details and, in March 2022, he already visited us in Estonia to pick a dugout canoe. This is also when he met his boat mate, Jevgeni Dernovoi.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aivar<\/strong>\u00a0Ruukel<\/strong> also shed light on the plans for next year: \u2018The destination of the expedition to be undertaken in 2023 is Sluseg\u00e5rd Village on Bornholm island. A ship burial from around the year 100 AD was found there. The majority of those two thousand years old boats were dugout canoes with \u2018spread out\u2019 boards. According to the scientific hypothesis of Thomas Frank, the Scandinavians learned this shipbuilding technology – using fire and water to bend the boards open to increase the load-bearing capacity of a dugout boat and improve its performance – from the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Thomas Frank claims that dugout canoes were used for long maritime journeys a thousand years before the Vikings, from west to east and from east to west, and he is aiming to prove this by his expeditions.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018The dugout canoe was built by Jaan Keerdo eighteen years ago, in 2004. The boat is six metres and 35 centimetres long. It is one meter wide. Its side height is 35 centimetres. In its eighteen years of history, \u2018Lendav Hollandlane\u2019 has been seen sailing in K\u00e4smu, at the Tallinn Maritime Days, at the V\u00f5handu Marathon, and at the relay of the flame,\u2019 said Aivar Ruukel<\/strong> about technical specifications of the canoe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Urmas Dresen<\/strong>, Board Member of the Estonian Maritime Museum, adds: \u2018There are two dugout canoes hanging from the ceiling at the Seaplane Harbour: the first was built in approximately 1880-1885 and was collected by the museum in the end of the 1970s from the banks of Kasari River. This dugout boat was used on the river and on the Matsalu Bay. This boat was also included in our previous Fat Margaret exposition on the fourth floor in the fishery section. The other is quite modern and was obtained from Soomaa. It was built in 1999\u20132000. The structure of the bows and sterns of those dugout canoes have certain peculiarities which better specialists will notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main thing that Thomas Frank, the Danish researcher of the routes of eastern Vikings, and Jevgeni Dernovoi attempt to prove by this trip and especially by arriving in the Bornholm Island next year, is that this archaic boat type was suitable for sea-fearing as much as a thousand years before the Viking Age.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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