A simple day sail in company on the Rade de Brest in Brittany, just enjoying the sun and the scenery - as well as visiting a bar together.
INTERESTED IN DINGHY CRUISING?
Read my book, "The Dinghy Cruising Companion":
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MUSIC
Admitting the Truth - Trailer Worx
Footprints in the Sand - Roots and Recognition featuring Melanie Bell
- both from Epidemic Sound
ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Ronan Coquil
IAIN OUGHTRED
More information on Iain's lovely boat designs.
www.oughtredboa...
AVEL DRO
Do you want a boat like mine?
Avel Dro is an Ilur designed by François Vivier, and built of clinker plywood by Les Charpentiers Reunis of Cancale in 1994, which I bought in France and then imported into the UK, and more recently returned to France again. The design is based closely on the traditional inshore fishing boats of Brittany in the early years of the twentieth century, hence her single boom-less lugsail rig and lack of a mainsheet horse, (sometimes controversial among my viewers). Although rare in Britain, Ilurs are relatively common in France. The name Avel Dro is Breton, and basically means a whirlwind.
Length 4.44 m
Sail area 12.2 m²
Beam 1.70 m
Draught 0.25 / 0.86 m
Design category C3
François Vivier's website (in English):
www.vivierboats...
Similar dinghies can often be found for sale on the website of the French magazine Le Chasse-Marée:
www.chasse-mar...
Or try Le Bon Coin, (where you can buy anything in France):
www.leboncoin.fr
Note on post-Brexit trade rules. Since January 2021, Great Britain (but not Northern Ireland) residents who buy a boat in France or elsewhere in the EU with the intention of importing it into the UK, should pay VAT and other duties on the import.
2 окт 2024
