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Overvieuw and more yellow.
February 21, 2026 · 5 min · 4K views
What this video covers
Sven Yrvind, at 86 years and 10 months old, is building a small, shallow-draft, high-latitude boat intended for difficult passages in cold and windy waters.▶ 1:27 The hull has received its Coppercoat antifouling, with a light sanding needed to remove epoxy that came up over it.▶ 0:50 He is now painting the topsides in Swedish national colors — yellow and blue, drawn from the Swedish flag dating to 1500 — applying the first coat of yellow around the hull and planning blue accents on the steps and one remaining section, which he will finish when the boat is inverted.▶ 2:17 The design philosophy centers on a small, handy, seaworthy hull with shallow draft suited to high-latitude sailing, which Yrvind argues is safer and more capable than large, expensive boats.▶ 3:22 He references Thoreau's Walden as a parallel: demonstrating that a simpler approach is possible, even if few follow it.▶ 3:39 He promotes his illustrated book, "A Dyslectic Ventrism Molds," illustrated by Pierre Hervé, available on Amazon at 109 pages with 70 ink and color illustrations.▶ 1:40
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