Båten ELVIRA på slipen vid båtbyggeri på Orust

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SKF workshop club boat ELVIRA. The boat was baptized after Elvira Nilsson, the wife of the workshop club’s legendary club chairman, Brolle, Bror Nilsson. The boat was constructed by Hjalmar Olsson and built on Orust, probably in 1952. The picture collection UMFA53408: 0001 0053 concerns Arendal’s boat yards. The yard was on Hisingen, in the middle of Älvsborg’s New Fortress where Älvsborg Harbour in Gothenburg is today. Information about the collection has been made available to Bengt Olsson, son of the shipyard owner and the boat builder Hjalmar Olsson. Hjalmar Olsson operated for 49 years (1920-1969) Arsenal’s boat yards along with his brother David. Over the years, they enjoyed an extraordinarily good reputation both in Sweden and abroad for their high-class works. Many large sailing yachts baxed over the years through the shipyards for a long life on the sea (and a high second-hand value). David was the great wooden artist, while Hjalmar looked after all the other that should be for the business to go well. Alongside this, he made a name for himself as a constructor. With his drawing pin, he managed to transfer the old all-maturity culture workboats with their rough pantras to the most beautiful small sailing ships, where one could clearly recognize everything that was good in the old liner run plus the new one that Hjalmar worked out by virtue of his great know-how. However, not many of the own designs were built on the Arendals boat yards. There, the floor area was paved with larger buildings. But in those years there were a variety of smaller yards up the Bohusland coast and in the right size to build dinghies and costerboats, which was Hjalmar’s specialty. The Sailing Company of Långedrags and Hjalmar Olsson together drafted measures and building rules for the Christmas classes. The great interest of the sailing company in the Christmas classes was very important for the spread of this boat type. The strict building regulations guaranteed a long life and a good second hand value, which has in all times been appreciated by buyers. [The archives of Bohusläns museum include drawings from Arendal’s boat yards under ARKIVNUMMER 242.] The drawing numbering is not the original one. There was no such thing. It is now organised by year and divided on costerboats and dinghies and motor boats, so as to have a better overview of the development. Costerboats first, then dinghies and finally motor boats. Finally, make the drawings that were not part of a new construction project. Various special jobs. Stig Ahlberg 1986. Hjalmar Olsson had a 6-year-old folk school, supplemented by a shorter course in drawing at the Slujdförening’s school when he was in his 20s. He was very adept about the Millennium Drawing. He drew with drawing pins and used bicycle spokes to draw “span panes.” He also used narrow “ri” of teak. Also text and figures were made with drawing pins. Stig Ahlberg was one of the yard’s customers and put down a great deal of work after Hjalmar Olsson’s death in cataloging the yard’s drawings. He also wrote a history of the Shipyard, see above. The museum association Sweden’s recreational craft (MSF) has digitized boat drawings in the Bohusläns museum collections. Includes 64 boat drawings by Hjalmar Olsson. The material is kept in the archives of Bohusläns museum and will be made available at DigitaltMuseum, www.digitaltmuseum.se MSF has digitized boat drawings in several other museum collections, i.a. The Maritime Museum. In the Swedish Maritime Museum’s drawing collection there are many examples of boats built on the Arendals boat yards, see their drawing database.