Instructions start with the minifig and a six step sub-build for the container…

…quickly followed by the main build of the truck itself. The wheels are not meant to be added until step 10, but I couldn't be bothered to remove them all.

It turns out to be really hard getting the white-balance and contrast of black LEGO bricks right when...

The set had been released a couple of years earlier in ’86 and I guess this kind of promotional sets that LEGO produced between ’77 and ’99 could usually only be purchased onboard the ferries themselves.

The bottom of the ship is just...

However, the set contains two grey bins with matching lids (radar dishes) that I remember using in all my city builds, and a yellow 1x4 bracket that was very handy for SNOT techniques, although I wasn’t well versed in those at the time.

Now, more than 30 years have passed since I last built this set. I had lost one of the red 1x1 round bricks and was missing a black 1x4 tile for the undercarriage, so I had to get some replacements from BrickLink...

LEGO had released a first wave of minifig scale floating boats in ’82 that I never saw. The second wave in ’87 introduced this police boat, and as I don’t really recognise the Swedish LEGO catalog of ’87, I must have first seen it at the shelf in the toys department.

This was my first and only LEGO boat with a floating hull and I was very happy about it! The price tag must have been somewhere...

This is indeed a very simple set with minimal instructions so I...