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Length on deck 13ft 1in 4.00 metres Beam 6 ft 2in 1.90 M Draft 2 ft 7in 0.800m Sail area 139 sq ft 14.9 Sq m Dry weight estimated 1430 lbs 650 kg Ballast 550 lbs 250 kg Max sailing weight 2420 lbs 1100 kg

Fafnir came about in part because of a customers want for a very small blue water capable yacht in which to attempt a non-stop circumnavigation.  He was wanting to build a 10 ft long boat, and I had serious reservations about this so expressed some reservations.  Much against my better judgement and out of curiosity more than anything I worked out a route, the amount of current assist that was possible, the weather windows and the climatic and stores consumption issues.

Its not  possible in my opinion to do it in a 10 footer, although the original customer will be trying to prove me wrong with another designers 10 footer.  I’m a bit relieved to tell you the truth.  That’s a long voyage with high risk and a good chance of the skipper running out of provisions a long way from any possible landfall.

The issues surrounding the design of very small long-range boats are many, are complex and interrelated.  Fitting the skipper into the boat in some comfort is one, there needs to be a variety of sitting and lying positions, places for fixed equipment such as the cooker and every possible space made available for storage.  Issues such as stability when on deck, change of trim as the skipper moves about, visibility from the several possible steering positions, and security during knockdown and rollover all have to be considered, and that before, or at least in conjunction with the sailing ability and characteristics which in themselves need to be quite different from a small boat intended for daysailing around the bay on a sunny afternoon.

I drew the minimum boat that I considered workable.  At 4M  (13 ft 1in) long it can carry about 350 kg (770 lbs) of stores in addition to the skippers weight and an allowance for the boats equipment including the liferaft and safety gear.

While that’s not a lot for a 380-day voyage, with a hand operated Watermaker Pump it makes the trip just about possible if everything went absolutely right.   I don’t think for a minute that it would, but it does mean that anyone wanting to spend a month aboard while running down the tradewinds toward a set of white sandy beaches and palm trees a thousand miles or more away there will be plenty aboard to sustain life, even enough books to prevent tedium taking over.

As often happens rumours about the new design circulate and I get others interested, some of whom get a chance to have an input.  In this case a gent who lives in an apartment with a separate singe car lockup garage  was very interested in a blue water cruiser that he could build in that space.  In this case the 6m x 3.6m space  was ample, and the structure was kept very simple so this first time boatbuilder could handle the project without having to learn complex skills.

This is a very simple boat to build.  I’ve been careful to keep the structure within the capability of a novice builder so she’s built of stringers and plywood planks over plywood bulkheads. This makes her very very strong, and a lot more capable than most would think a boat of this size could be.  For someone with large dreams and a small budget, Fafnir might just be the ideal thing..

There is space aboard for two, a slightly different layout from the blue water single handers setup provides a double bunk, and a friendly young couple would find that there was enough room on board for a long weekend or even a week.  The boat can be trailered behind a four-cylinder car and transported to a new cruising ground each holiday weekend, and while its capable of long distances in areas where the winds are mostly favourable she might be containerised, or railed out to somewhere exotic if something really adventurous is the aim.

I can imagine the skipper heading off out of a tiny harbour at the far end of a small shipping lines run, the tiny bimini sheltering him from the hot sun so different from the cold winter weather back at home and bearing away to run down the steady trade wind on his way to the island chain some 1500 miles away where his young wife waits for her captain to bring their ship in so they can explore the new and exotic coastline together.

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Fafnir is descended from Gimli, a study drawing intended to give an idea what would be required for a race around the world in boats only 10ft (3.048m) long.  That race was to be held on a course where the longest single leg was only about 1800 tradewinds miles, and where support would be available at every port.  A race like that is a big deal for such a small craft, and Gimli had a canting keel, daggerboards for lateral plane and balance, a fully battened carbon fibre rig and every trick I could think of to make her competitive as well as seaworthy.

The study drawing was put up on the Around in 10 yahoo group's front page along with one from Matt Layden, and there was a lot of interest expressed. To date no one wanted to go with the original concept.  But!  It sparked an idea for a very much longer voyage in one gentleman’s mind, and after considerable discussion on provisioning and route planning we settled on 4m long as the limit, a fixed medium draft keel, a simpler rig and plywood rather than foam and fibreglass as the construction medium.

I had to go and find another name, the dwarf warrior being the theme I looked into Norse mythology and found Fafnir.  The son of a dwarf king facing real problems with a dragon, he sent two sons out to deal with the intractable lizard, and after seeing his brother toasted Fafnir, brave, indomitable and resourceful, went into battle and turned the dragon’s lights out.  Fafnir, a very short but burly and resourceful warrior, a good man to have on your side! I figure that if you are going voyaging in a very small boat, those characteristics will be reassuring on a dark night when the wind howls in the rigging.

Fafnir is much bigger than you’d expect in a boat of this length, I’ve a rowing boats a lot longer and can pick it up and carry it singlehanded.  But this one is broad, deep, very strong, and able to carry her crew and enough stores for a couple of months in reasonable comfort. That gives a range in reasonably favourable winds of about 3000 miles.  As with any small boat, in the open sea one would not expect to make much progress to windward when the breeze pipes up, but seasonal winds are well documented, and it’s not beyond possibility that this little boat could make long passages safely.

On the safety issue, I’ve detailed foam buoyancy of approximately 500 kg in volume,  this plus the buoyancy of the wood will keep her head above water if holed and give the option of repair and pumping her out, or collecting as much in the way of equipment as possible before  sliding the liferaft over the side. One hopes that will never be needed, but its best to plan for the worst and hope for the best.

While the interior as designed is intended as a singlehander, the two side seats can be carried across the footwell and made into a big double bed which will be long and wide enough to sleep two on, so cruising as a couple is quite practical.  I can visualise a young couple, exploring an interesting coastline 20 miles or so a day at a time as they explore life together and have adventures that will be part of the glue that maintains their relationship for the rest of their lives.

Comfort and variety of position is very important in small boats, and Fafnir has 7 good seating places, one is in the “bunk” which stretches fore and aft along the centreline between the seat fronts giving a 2.2m long by 800mm wide flat space with the seats forming side boards that will keep the skipper in his bed when the boats being bounced around.  There is space to sit up here and relax partly stretched out. The next two are the side seats amidships, there is room to lean back with feet braced against the seat on the opposite side and read, steer with the internal tiller or cook a meal in the little galley under the after deck. On good days the companionway steps are a good place for sitting at low level with the head just clear of the hatch opening, or higher up in the hatch opening legs inside, and on really nice days you can sit yourself on either side of the little after deck with space enough to sprawl out and sunbathe.

The deck is designed to offer working space on the after or foredecks, and the cabin top is made of flat panels rather than a cambered arc so that it is easier to clamber along when going forward.  (It’s easier to build as well!) That latter is not needed very often as the sails can be handled completely from the hatchway.  Roller furling on both jib and staysail means they can be put away or pulled out easily and the main has three slab reefs all of which can be accessed and actioned without going on deck.

Long keels are considered to be the right thing to have for long range cruisers, and in this case I had originally considered a much deeper fin with a lead bulb on the end, but after discussion conceded that a shallower wood framed full length keel with lead ballast inside would improve the steering, protect the rudder and allow the boat to creep up creeks and into protected and unoccupied corners of anchorages when exploring.  It contributes a huge amount of strength to the hull as well! That plus you don’t need to melt ¼ of a ton of lead and cast a complex shaped bulb in your kitchen, just make small ingots a few pounds at a time.

One of the major issues with the dream of building an ocean going cruiser is “where?”  In this case my original customer needed to be able to build within the confines of a single car garage, and Fafnir is about as much as you can get in there and still get around the sides and ends. 

Built from plywood on stringers, with plywood frames holding her in shape as well as mounting all the interior furniture this is an easy build, in fact it might just be the easiest blue water cruiser to build that I’ve seen.  There is very little twist in the planking, just simple bends, and the cabin has few complexities with even the hatch being glued up from three layers of thin ply glued over a jig.  The tools required to build Fafnir are not going to break the bank.  I’d buy a good hand held jigsaw, a good random orbital sander and a cordless drill which will be used as a screwdriver. That plus a few hand tools will do the job, and ordinary handyman skills with some patience and a willingness to learn will see a new boat ready to sail in pretty short order.

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Length, a 15ft (4.5 m) long building space could accommodate a boat about 13 and a little bit feet (4 m) long and still allow the builder to get around the ends with the doors shut.

Imagine being up at the head of a deserted estuary, stuck there waiting out a couple of rainy days! I refuse to lock my customer in a tiny coffin like space for shelter so sitting headroom and adequate light for reading is a minimum. This means we need about 2m long x 0.75m wide x 1.050 m high at one end to accommodate our hypothetical average skipper. We may not be able to use the same space for both accommodation and sailing space so might need to do this twice over, but sitting up facing across the boat even a long legged sort needs only 1.200m of space from backrest to heel.

A month at 2 kg of food a day is 60 kg, this would include an allowance for stove and lamp fuel, with a weeks water at 3 litres a day the voyage consumables stores weight would be 81 kg. Given an 80kg skipper, 25 kg of ground tackle spread between two good sized anchors with some chain and 20 fathoms of nylon warp on each, an allowance of another 25 kg for clothing, pots and a camp stove we’re up to a bit over 200 kg (440 lbs) of “cargo” we have to carry.

A boat like this will be heavier than a typical dinghy of the same length but I expect about another 90 kg including the rig would do it. Given the tendency of cruisers to collect gear we should allow for 300 kg total displacement. That’s quite a lot for a dinghy of this size; she is to be as heavy as most day sailers with three crew so we need a buoyant and powerful hull.

Self righting, even the most carefully designed of ocean cruisers still has a narrow range of inverted stability, so the trick here would seem to be to get the stable range so narrow that she can be rolled up by her normal crew of one. To take a tip from “Maximum Exposure” we need to get some enclosed (buoyant) space high up relative to the hull. If possible we should have some weight low down and well secured so it contributes to the righting moment.

She should not have so much buoyancy tankage out near the gunwale that the skippers weight cannot sink one side to roll her, and the little cruiser should not have so much water in her when she rolls back to her feet that she is unstable due to free surface effect.

A securely watertight cabin and enclosed buoyancy chambers in the ends of the boat will do most of what we need with the buoyancy, at the helm the sailor needs only about 750mm in a fore and aft dimension if the full width can be used, water ballast would work but does tend to complicate the structure and is not particularly effective for the volume taken up. Perhaps some fixed ballast amidships? We can’t pick her up without a helping hand so another few kilos might not hurt. Lets draw this out and see.

Centreboard? They get in the road if they are in the middle, so why have it in the middle! Ok, an “offcentreboard!”

Storage. Hmmm, plenty of room and much of it can be amidships and low down, needs to be secure in a rollover or knockdown though.

An anchor space can be organised at each end so that wet and muddy ground tackle doesn’t need to be down below, auxiliary power, rowing I think would work fine for a boat of this size (suits Bill Serjeants Micro Sailboat class too) and anyone who wants an outboard can hang one on the back.

The rig? The rig! As the layout takes shape in my mind there is not room to put a mast in the usual place, no problem, I have in mind a rig that will allow the boat to be hove to head to wind so she can be reefed without having to hang over the side, a rig which will allow the sail area to be spread out and low, which can be used to help the boat self steer and which is simple and economical to set up.

A balance lugsail main and slightly larger than usual sharpie spritsail mizzen will do all of this; your choice for spars could be any one of alloy tube, bamboo, carbon fibre tubes, or wood. There should be one or another under the brother in laws house or somewhere else just as cheap.

Very much time to start the pictures so out comes the graph paper and pencil.

1. a pencil sketch is the first stage of the process, and is really just I thinking out loud and making notes. It shows the basic concept, layout and spaces.

2. from the above a drawing is made on graph paper so the proportions are more clearly defined. By using the graph paper I can map the sizes of each space required, I can work out the optimum spacing for frames and bulkheads, headroom, rough areas of sail and so on.

3. From drawing #2 comes the next stage, which is a drawing close enough to do calculations from. It is done on heavy polyester drafting film which can take much rubbing out, and the initial stages of the drawing work is done with “non copy blue” pencil, then 6h x .25mm propelling pencil, and finished off with .25mm tube nosed “Rotring Rapidograph “ pen using black “film” ink.

From this drawing calculations are made as to weights, stability, load carrying ability, centres of buoyancy, gravity, effort and lateral plane, Prismatic and block coefficients, sail area to displacement, water plane loading, water flow paths, foils, sail area and distribution, structural loads and how to carry them, ergonomics and economics, building method and on and on.

Of course previous experience makes a huge difference at this stage of a design, much of what I need is already to hand having designed boats of similar size and weights, building the occasional boat myself keeps me in touch with what is practically achievable with the materials so I end up with a boat that can be built without too much tearing out of hair.

4. Structure, all dimensions are taken off the #3 drawing so the dimensioning is consistent, any really odd joints are detailed, as are the bulkheads and frames. From this drawing on the development of a set of plans is a drafting function, Stuart Reid does this for me on my really big projects, the information is there in #3 but it requires time and application to produce the detail work from which the builders get the solutions to their many questions.

While the excitement is gone to some degree it is this stage of drawing that is the most important to the home boat builder, I was in a super yacht building company the other day, taking to one of my designer friends, he is employed solely to produce interpretations of plans and drawings of components from the designers originals. My customers can’t afford to hire him so we do the work here before the plans go out the door.

Now, how do we present this thing to the clients? So often it is the story illustrating the capability and possibilities of the design that sets people to thinking, a raw set of statistics and a profile drawing doesn’t grab the imagination so. Few people are able to make the leap from a few lines on paper to the mental imagery that would see them watching the sunset from the cockpit, so the next job is to write a story which will tell the reader just what it is that has just been set out on paper.

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God of War – Fafnir’s Hoard Favour Walkthrough

April 26, 2018 by imbroken963 2 Comments

Fafnir’s Hoard is the 1st Favour (Side Quest) for Sindri in God of War 2018. This walkthrough will guide you through all objectives of Sindri’s Fafnir’s Hoard Favor.

• Quest Giver: Sindri (at one of his shops)
• Requirement: Must have completed The Light of Alfheim up to when you return to Midgard.
• Reward: Rare Talisman and 3290 XP

Collect Quest from Sindri in The Foothills in Midgard

Once you get back to Midgard head to The Foothills and speak to Sindri at the shop. Speak to Sindri and accept his favour. Here is an image of where Sindri is at The Foothills:

Head to Fafnir’s storeroom

Once the quest has been accepted head into your Goals tab of your start menu and move over to the favours tab and track the favour to get the waypoint to show on your compass. Follow your compass through the Lake of Nine and into Fafnir’s Ravine. Dock the boat Fafnir’s Storeroom and head down the path and through the camp with Sindri in it. Head through the woods full of enemies and into the cave in the waterfall and down the path.

Use entry stone on the pedestal

Head onto the stone Bridge and interact with the pedestal in the middle of the platform.

Search for the whetstone

Head through the door into the next room and defeat both enemies in the other room. Collect the entry stone in the far west and head back out to the stone platform. Head back to the pedestal and insert the entry stone. Head into the door to your East that a bridge built itself to. Defeat the two small enemies with the Viken Brawler, he has a bit of health but continue attacking him while shooting arrows at him to stun him. Once the three enemies are defeated grab the entry stone to the East and head back to the stone platform. Use the entry stone in the pedestal and head through the door to the Northwest that the bridge just formed to. Inside this room with be two Poison Revenants. Take them out and retrieve the entry stone and head back to the pedestal and place the stone to get access to the fourth room. Head through the door to the Southeast and you will have to take on 6 wolves. Most will be yellow bar difficulty but there will be one purple bar wolf. Focus on the smaller ones first and then take out the higher level one. Once they are all defeated grab the entry stone in the Southeast and head back to the pedestal and place the stone. Follow the new path through the door ahead. Head straight ahead and a Reaver Spirit will appear.

Talk to the Reaver Spirit

Speak with the Reaver Spirit to retrieve the dagger.

Return to Sindri

After taking the dagger two Ogres will spawn along with a wave of Nightmares. You will have to deal with the enemies before going onward. It is best to take out the higher level Ogre using your firsts and arrows first as your Stun attack will allow you to mount the Ogre and attack the other one. Make sure to eliminate the Nightmares as they spawn so you don’t have to dodge their attacks when trying to take out the Ogres. Once you have taken out all the enemies head back the way you came. Head through the forest and back to Sindri and speak with him to complete this favour.

This finishes the Fafnir’s Hoard quest in God of War.

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August 4, 2019 at 10:25 am

The only problem is theres no first stone to interact with pedestral so we can move on… Is there anything ave missed?or its a bug?

November 28, 2019 at 4:17 pm

Bought the game and without updates i play till reached this quest. Either because of the water level in the lake lowered a second time…or because of me not updating the game or trying to i cone back to the dwarf and can’t talk to him abiut the dagger…only thing i can do use his shop. The icon of the quest is there but no button icon for me to interract with him on the topic…

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