Boat Hall

In the Boat Hall of Maritime Centre Vellamo you can admire boats from the collections of the Kymenlaakso Museum and the Maritime Museum of Finland.

Traditional boat building skills in Kymenlaakso are represented, for example, by the Eeva boat from Summa village, the grandfather’s boat and the Kaunissaaren meriläinen boat. The Maija deck saloon boat is a unique example of boatbuilding in Vehkalahti preserved in her original form.

The Coast Guard Museum, built in cooperation between the Kymenlaakso Museum and the Finnish Border Guard, sheds light on the work of coast guards from the 1930s to the present day. The Coast Guard Museum exhibits the Beaver and Sääski surveillance aircraft, which controlled borders from the air, and the VMV 11 patrol boat, also called Vemma.

The centre stage in Boat Hall is taken by Thomas Johanson’s and Jyrki Järvi’s gold-winning 49eR class sailboat from the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics. The boat belongs to the collections of the Maritime Museum of Finland. Older Olympic history is represented by the Australian rowing eight from the Helsinki 1952 Summer Olympics.

The small wooden Victoria boat reminds us of Tove Jansson, artist and writer, who travelled to her summer cottage at Klovharu by Victoria for nearly thirty years.