Embla

Embla

Seksæring from Eidi on Faroe Islands, 1992

This large, twelve-man vessel was built of pine at Eidi on the Faroe Islands by Simun Johan Wolles for the Viking Ship Museum. It is used for taking schoolchildren sailing on Roskilde Fjord. This type of boat was rare in olden days, but a few boats of this size were used for transporting goods and people.

Embla is rigged with a trapezoidal sail with a low centre of pressure, a sail-type that was used for large transport vessels up until the 1870s.