Key details
Dimensions and specifications
- Length (m / ft)
- 3.96 / 13ft
- Beam (m / ft)
- 1.52 / 5ft
- Propulsion
- Oar
Design and build
- Designer
- Traditional
- Date of build
- 1969
- Place of build
- Osterbygge, Finland
Current status
- Present use
- Museum/NMMC
History
Offered for free transfer by NMM 2015 Built by a Baltic island farmer/fisherman, Gote Karlman of Osterbygge, Aland in 1969 and used by him as a working boat until he disposed of her to NMM in 1981. The Oka is a two transom boat type widely used along the Baltic coastlines of Sweden and Finland. It is used as farmers’ boats, for net fishing and for personal transport of one or two people. October 2007