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The Smuggler King
XMAS2005-20
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Detta var geocache nr 20 i en serie av 24, i Geocachingsveriges julkalender 2005.
De övriga 23 kalendercacherna finns utplacerade på olika platser över hela vårt avlånga land.
Denna cachen "avjulades" den 8 januari, 2006.
This was geocache no 20 in a series of 24, a kind of Geocaching Christmas Calendar for the Christmas of 2007.
The remaining 23 calendar caches are placed in various locations all over Sweden.
This cache was "deChristmasefied" the 13th of January, 2008.
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Please, be sure to restore the hiding place in its original way, so it remains “storm safe”, and also because it’s a very public area, especially during summertime!
Snälla, se till att återställa gömstället på ursprungligt sätt, så att det förblir ”stormsäkert”, men också eftersom området är mycket publikt, speciellt under sommartid!
The cache is in a 0,4 litre, square shaped, transparent plastic Lock&Lock food container.
and had the following content from start:
- Log book
- Pencil
- A picture of my Smashing GeoCaching Dogs (SGCD) NB, not a trading object!
If you want a picture of the SGCD send me an e-mail and I will send you a picture!
- Two “CITO-bags” (meant to be used)
- One SGF pin
- One refrigerator magnet
- One Gavia geocaching business card
- Two erasers (“children style”)
- For the FTF
A “thing” related to the "theme of the cache".
Kalvsund has an ancestry as an important harbour and commercial place. The island was habitation for skippers, pilots, customs officers and fishermen.
"The Smuggler Villa" was erected in 1912, of timber from the wrecked ship "Svolder". The villa was bought 1917 by Ernst Bremer, more well-known as "the Smuggler King".
He had his own fleet of 16 vessels of which some were very fast, 28 knots, a considerable speed in the 1920’s. Though the customs had an office on the island (the small red cottage in the aerial view picture) they never caught him red-handed!
In 1984 it was made a film about “the Smuggler King”, which opened in 1985, but the script writers made the whole story up, but based on true facts, because they didn’t believe Ernst Bremer still was live.
They were wrong! Before the opening night the newspaper "Expressen" made an interview with the 98 year old “Smuggler King”. He didn’t over live the opening night, so he never saw the movie about his life.
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Kalvsund har gamla anor som viktig hamn och handelsplats. Ön var boplats för skeppare, lotsar, tullare och fiskare, centrum för sillhanteringen, populär badort.
Smugglarvillan byggdes 1912 av virke från det förlista fartyget "Svolder". Byggnaden köptes 1917 av Ernst Bremer, mest känd som "Smugglarkungen".
Det var här som smugglarkungen Bremer bodde och det var här han hade sina snabba motorbåtar. Han hade 16 båtar och några av dem gjorde 28 knop och var därmed snabbare än tullens båtar. Hans "glansperiod" var under 1920-talet.
Trots att det fanns en tullstation på Kalvsund (den lilla röda stugan som syns på flygbilden), där tulltjänstemännen ständigt hade ögonen på honom, tog de honom aldrig på bar gärning. Ernst Bremer blev legendarisk för sin fräckhet och det finns många berättelser om hans bravader och det har också gjorts film baserad på hans liv.