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![The boathouses at Svåsand.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_383-2.jpg?itok=KK04JZW2)
Svåsand
Down by the fjord at Svåsand, close to the main highway, there is a long row of boathouses, one of the well-preserved, older boathouse locations along the Hardanger fjord. It is the farms at Svåsand that have their boathouses here, four main farms with origins far back in time.
![The marine use environment on Krossøy, Austrheim](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_306-1.jpg?itok=G4q9_8h8)
Krossøy
Furthest north in the island community Rongevær, at the entrance to Fensfjorden, lies Krossøy. Belonging to the farm are the islands of Krossøy, Husøy, Kårøy, Lyngkjerringa, Søre Kjerringa, Rotøy and Kuhovet. All of them have been inhabited. On Krossøy itself today there are four holdings. The marine use environment here is one of the best preserved along the West Norwegian coast.
![The marine shed at Hollmeknappe, Meland](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_296-1_0.jpg?itok=bMReCI2n)
Holmeknappen
If you come by sea to Bergen and come up the Herdle Fjord, the yellow ochre marine shed at Holmeknappen is a well known landmark to starboard as you come close to the little shore settlement. In olden days Holmenknappen served important functions as a centre for a wide hinterland of the surrounding farms, warehouse, landing point, country store and later a steamer quay, a hotel (1896) and a dairy (1909). But today Holmeknappen is no longer a focal point. Transport and commercial routes have changed the old pattern
![Mo with the Otterstad farm in the background early in the 1900s.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_329-1_0.jpg?itok=JUVMdLHq)
Otterstad
Tthe Otterstad farms lie in the innermost part of Mofjorden, on the northwest side of the river. The row of stave-built boatsheds that belong to the farm were probably constructed a little after the middle of the 1800s. Both here and on the Mo side, the boatsheds were important storage places at the seashore; wood and other farm products intended for the town; corn and merchandise in return.
![The Ostra chests are easily recognisable with their characteristic style.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_327-1.jpg?itok=x-fr2TBj)
Mjøsvågen
Around Mjøsvågen here is still a compact marine use area. Some of the buildings are common boathouses, but most of them also house small enterprises and workshops. This is where the farmers from Øvsthus, Mjøs, Hole and other farms have supplemented their meagre incomes as smiths, brass moulders, clog makers, chest builders and decorative painters.
![Boatshed](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_335-3.jpg?itok=egD0W5wD)
![Sash-saw](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh-375-stekka.jpg?itok=RgEApthy)
Berge
Down by the fjord on the farm Berge in Tørvikbygd, is Stekkavika – a sheltered eastward facing harbour, protected against the fjord by headlands and rocks, even manifest in the name. Here is also a comprehensive milieu of coastal industry, with boathouses and sea-sheds that belong to the farms Berge, Heradstveit and Halleråker. Belonging to the farm Berge there is also a mill-house, circular saw, workshop for sloop building, and – a little further up into the woods – the old water-powered sash-saw.
![Bruosen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_376-1_z.jpg?itok=OZpy9qgo)
Bru
Bruosen is one of the few river harbours in the county. As landing place for the churchgoers, this place and the boatshed environment follow a tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages, but the country store of today is much younger.