Holvikejekta

Holvikejekta is the only surviving clinker-built jekt in Norway, sometimes called the stave church of the sea. A jekt was a single-masted, square-rigged cargo vessel used along the entire western coast from Hardanger to Finnmark. This one was built in 1881 at Krånafjøra near Sandane by brothers Jakob and Andreas Apalset. At 20 meters long and 8.6 meters wide, with a 26.5-meter mast, she could carry about 120 favn of firewood to Bergen and return loaded with flour, sugar, salt, clothing and roof tiles. A crew of five or six typically made two or three round trips per year. Brought ashore in 1906 and purchased by the local history society in 1909, she became the founding object of the Nordfjord Museum of Cultural History in 1920. A new museum building opened in 2025 to house the vessel.