Sagesund
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Sagesund is a small village in the municipality of Tvedestrand
in Aust-Agder
county, Norway
. It is located in the middle of Oksefjorden. Sagesund is located 6.2 kilometres (3.9 mi) from Tvedestrand on county road 411. There is also bus service from Tvedestrand.
Approximately 50 people live there on a permanent basis. It is very popular in the summer, when the population at least doubles. It has a marina for recreational boats, a sports arena with tennis courts, and a beach volleyball
field. The fjord
is also an excellent place for waterskiing and wakeboarding, but also for more quiet activities. It is specially suitable for walks in the woods with idyllic ponds.
mill (oppgangssag), located in a creek. The lumbermill was used by local farmers. In the 19th century there were three shipyard
s here, building sailing ship
s, brig
s, barque
s, schooner
s, etc. There used to be a large ice storage building. It was used to hold ice that was to be exported. In the 1950s, there were three stores, a post office, a galvanic workshop, a house for assemblies, and an electric sawmill.
The sailboat Origo started and ended its circumnavigation
of the world from Sagesund in 1994. Nor Siglar, with half the crew from Sagesund, also included Sagesund as a natural stop on its way around the globe.
Tvedestrand
is a town and municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sørlandet. The administrative center is the village of Tvedestrand....
in Aust-Agder
Aust-Agder
is a county in Norway, bordering Telemark, Rogaland, and Vest-Agder. In 2002, there were 102,945 inhabitants, which is 2.2% of the total population in Norway. Its area is . The administrative center of the county is in Arendal....
county, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
. It is located in the middle of Oksefjorden. Sagesund is located 6.2 kilometres (3.9 mi) from Tvedestrand on county road 411. There is also bus service from Tvedestrand.
Approximately 50 people live there on a permanent basis. It is very popular in the summer, when the population at least doubles. It has a marina for recreational boats, a sports arena with tennis courts, and a beach volleyball
Beach volleyball
Beach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.Like volleyball, the object of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground it on the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent....
field. The fjord
Fjord
Geologically, a fjord is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created in a valley carved by glacial activity.-Formation:A fjord is formed when a glacier cuts a U-shaped valley by abrasion of the surrounding bedrock. Glacial melting is accompanied by rebound of Earth's crust as the ice...
is also an excellent place for waterskiing and wakeboarding, but also for more quiet activities. It is specially suitable for walks in the woods with idyllic ponds.
History
Sagesund got its name from a sash sawBacksaw
A backsaw is any hand saw which has a stiffening rib on the edge opposite the cutting edge, allowing for better control and more precise cutting than with other types of saws. Backsaws are normally used in woodworking for precise work, such as cutting dovetails, mitres, or tenons in cabinetry and...
mill (oppgangssag), located in a creek. The lumbermill was used by local farmers. In the 19th century there were three shipyard
Shipyard
Shipyards and dockyards are places which repair and build ships. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Dockyards are sometimes more associated with maintenance and basing activities than shipyards, which are sometimes associated more with initial...
s here, building sailing ship
Sailing ship
The term sailing ship is now used to refer to any large wind-powered vessel. In technical terms, a ship was a sailing vessel with a specific rig of at least three masts, square rigged on all of them, making the sailing adjective redundant. In popular usage "ship" became associated with all large...
s, brig
Brig
A brig is a sailing vessel with two square-rigged masts. During the Age of Sail, brigs were seen as fast and manoeuvrable and were used as both naval warships and merchant vessels. They were especially popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries...
s, barque
Barque
A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts.- History of the term :The word barque appears to have come from the Greek word baris, a term for an Egyptian boat. This entered Latin as barca, which gave rise to the Italian barca, Spanish barco, and the French barge and...
s, schooner
Schooner
A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....
s, etc. There used to be a large ice storage building. It was used to hold ice that was to be exported. In the 1950s, there were three stores, a post office, a galvanic workshop, a house for assemblies, and an electric sawmill.
The sailboat Origo started and ended its circumnavigation
Circumnavigation
Circumnavigation – literally, "navigation of a circumference" – refers to travelling all the way around an island, a continent, or the entire planet Earth.- Global circumnavigation :...
of the world from Sagesund in 1994. Nor Siglar, with half the crew from Sagesund, also included Sagesund as a natural stop on its way around the globe.