Last edited by peter radclyffe; 05-12-2011 at 08:07 PM.
Oh dear Peter !!! What a pity ....a very good thread !![]()
'' You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know. ''
Grateful Dead
thanks Paul
Any chance Scot could revive it?
Steven
I'm horrified
alden was influenced by alexander paris, who designed jolie brise , built by paumelle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma7Frkx4h3s
peter..
some boat look very familliar to me on the first picts..!!. some gabares and other brest/douarnenez fleet..in britanny ... i repair some of them .. i have my first workshop in le conquet ! in 1984...
kenavo ! cheer's
bertrand
the original thread lives on in google's cache, at least for the next few days...
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:...&ct=clnk&gl=us
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:...&ct=clnk&gl=us
Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.
Damn your good Paul, bertho what is a gabare, are you french, do you know of August Turtu's boats
Good find, Paul. That was/is a fantastic read.
i was surprised to see latifa at marciana on the island last year, for european vintage boat folks, she holds a special place in history, i had a chat with mario pirlo her ownebr />
Now That!!!is a beautiful boat!!!![]()
Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.
Fife went on designing and building yachts well into his seventies. In 1935, aged 78, he designed one of his most admired ocean racing yachts, Latifa. She was one of his all-time favourites and, when he died in 1944, his sisters had a gilded model made of her. The real Latifa is still sailing in the Mediterranean, and the model is still on top of the spire of Fairlie Parish Church. Fife's grave is in the Largs cemetery, overlooking the waters where his beautiful designs made their mark.
and the biggest wooden old gaffebr />
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hi peter,
the gabare was the local transport boat for everthing in britanny, sand/wood/stones... (you can see the "notre dame du rumengol" on the second pict... ) and auguste tertu the most skilly boatbuilder in our place, a legende, in "le sillon" just close to camaret, he desing and built our strong fishing boat ...
i should say gaff cutter,
bertand, yes i studied his work, like cor nu its hard to find info on some of the french builders, is there another site like bateaux di bois
a yole
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I wondered what had happened.... I looked for this thread, and thought ????
Good start... Keep it up
Last edited by Peter Malcolm Jardine; 02-02-2010 at 03:54 AM.
thanks Tom,
my father taught me about diesel engines
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg9IyvFc0HY
one day a man on a mission walked into the yard where we repaired narrowboats, he told me he had a bolinder engine, & he was looking for a narrowboat to put it in, i asked him did he want a rotten boat or a sound boat,
rotten he said, then he could take his time rebuilding it, we walked over to where 2 boats were moored together, a coke can had floated between them & sunk one of them, your in luck said i, we have what you want,
6 grand to rebuild the bow
9 grand for the stern
& your divorce lawyer can advise you on the bit inbetween
fine he said, where do i sign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdMxgI2ywYo
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