Two old ball floats and a stone in snow next to an upturned wooden boat. Black and white photo.
Two old ball floats and a stone in snow next to an upturned wooden boat. Black and white photo.

Boat and Balls

starting at €90.00

A piece of our intangible cultural heritage is resting in its winter slumber. The oldest evidence of boats in Finland can be found in Stone Age rock paintings dating back around 5,000 years. This type of wooden boat is typical of all the Nordic countries, and the joint application to protect our clinker-built boat tradition was accepted into UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2021. The cultural heritage that has developed around our numerous water bodies also includes many fishing tools, from hooks to net markers. However, wintering buoy balls hardly deserve special protection.

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A piece of our intangible cultural heritage is resting in its winter slumber. The oldest evidence of boats in Finland can be found in Stone Age rock paintings dating back around 5,000 years. This type of wooden boat is typical of all the Nordic countries, and the joint application to protect our clinker-built boat tradition was accepted into UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2021. The cultural heritage that has developed around our numerous water bodies also includes many fishing tools, from hooks to net markers. However, wintering buoy balls hardly deserve special protection.

NOSTALGIA – Memories of the past

Even in the dim light of the waterfront shed, you can see the practical beauty of the handle, worn smooth by decades of use. The spirit of the curly pine tree lives on in the tool – the tree from which it was crafted. In all the boxes and barrels, fishing net hooks, ice augers, corfs, decoy ducks, shovels and scrapers... The new cannot replace the old. It lacks the stories, spirits, and elves.