bonjour Mr Yves Borne quand je vois ses images avec le bateau de sauvetage dans cette mer démontée ça fait mal les frissons me passent partout j'était présent ce jour la a la cérémonie et le plus dure c'est d'entendre les noms de ses héros don celui mon cousin ALAIN GUIBERT que j'ai connu haut comme trois pommes qui est la sous ce drapeau bleu blanc rouge et que je ne revérrai plus jamais . mais les souvenirs restes tout comme la famille . son père POLO qui était marin lui aussi sa mère Anne Marie sa soeur Catherine son frère Yannick et FREDDY . c'est un bel hommage a ses trois Héros sauveteurs qui on laisser leur vies a cause d'un inconscient ( et je pèse mes mots ) .honneur a tout ses marins sauveteur qui on laisser leurs vies qu'ils reposent en paix . PHILIPPE
This beautiful ship is now in Den Helder, The Netherlands. Is laying there for some years, slowly deteriorating. I hope she once will be fully restored to her old glory!!!
D’ci quelques moi, le champ d’éolien (inutile au soulagement de la production de CO2) va empêcher la pêche et la navigation entre le pilier, Pont d’Yeu et l’île de sorte que la SNSM devrait être soulagée.
Just beautifull, not just the boat, but also the idealism behind it! Thank's for posting. A question: How did they bring these big three, four masters into the harbour to unload their cargo before the age of motor boats to tug them in???
They worked the tides and the wind, sailed them in, I've done it on Danish sailing ships with Danish skippers who know how to sail but back in the day there were a lot of shipwrecks too! This is the nonsense of these hippies thinking they are saving the planet! You cannot run a commercial business in outdated vessels in harbours not geared for sail. It's not rocket science to see it's impossible but there will always be romantic fools who think they can.
This Ship doesn’t have an engine it’s parts of the Tres hombres shipping company . Which only uses sail to import fair trade goods from the Caribbean into Europe. They usually pull up before a European port and get the Local port authority to tow them in . Low environmental impact
You can’t sail into most ports…you have to come in under motor. They’re afraid you’ll bump into the other yachts if you sail. So this boat, that doesn’t have an engine, had to be towed in and later out of the port to open water.
A lovely film and great to see the old girl rigged and equipped as she should be. I am reminded of myself in the 60s & '70s by the "rabble" crew: they might have the enthusiasm but not yet the onboard discipline to keep everything as shipshape as it should be. The mile or more of cordage is more than a handfull, the sheer weight of handling the sails, the trim of all the blocks and the weight of an old lumberer like this (I love her), is beyond the imagination of anyone who has never done it. To handle her in a confined space In the days of her youth there were all sorts of quarter-boats and harbour launches, hufflers and linesmen to attend her as she came into harbour. With todays little plastic tubs with a motor and sails like a pocket handkerchief it might give the appearance to most, that they just sail onto the mooring, drop their nylon handkies, tidy up the ball of string (their running rigging) and pour the next gin. I can assure you that without a motor and no modern ponteeoning and no attendaint shore men, it is a hard to imagine bringing the old beast onto a mooring. Well done those French Lifeboatmen but next time, don't run the tow over the handrails!! they go under and run flush to the deck to your winch or bollards. Paul in France
Wooden ships men of steel now it's steel ships & men of wood. Use the sails to drive the boat, tenders to row the boat in & using the tide to assist. must be a legality thing about sailing into the harbor.
Je me rappel très bien mes il y'avait aussi les thons , à l'époque la pêche a la dorade était bonne sur la jetée de L'herbaudière ! Nous étions rue de la Linière . Je salut la famille Bernard et la famille Moisant !
Superbe reportage , Yves , quelle éloquence ,un bonheur d'en savoir un peu plus sur Le Viel ,j'ai honte de ne pas connaitre vraiment ce village de Noirmoutier .... ,au passage bravo pour cette voix puissante dans ce lieu de prière . Amicalement Bernard
