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Updated: May 12, 2025
Now it was gone, and now it ducked up again like a sea-mew, and past skerries and capes it whizzed like a dart. Out in the fishing grounds the folks rested upon their oars and gaped. Such a boat they had never seen before. But if in the first year it was an Ottring, next year it was a broad heavy Femböring for winter fishing which made the folks open their eyes.
"There you have your wet clout back again!" cried a laughing voice. But the same instant Jack's eyes were opened and he saw a whole boat-building establishment on the sea-shore. And, there, ready and rigged out on the bright water, lay an Ottring, so long and shapely and shining that his eyes could not feast on it enough. The old 'un blinked with satisfaction.
But the Ottring lay and frisked and sported in the sea before his eyes, just as he had seen it, all bright and new with fresh tar, and with the ropes and fishing gear just put in. He kicked and shook the fine slim boat with his foot just to see how light and high she could rise on the waves above the water-line. And once, twice, thrice, the club smote against the keel-piece.
So that was how the first boat was built at Sjöholm. Thick as birds together stood a countless number of people on the headland in the autumn, watching Jack and his brothers putting out in the new Ottring. It glided through the strong current so that the foam was like a foss all round it.
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