A great success!
Amazed , I would have liked to spend more time there, but I would have had to walk miles to admire everything from one bank to the other. If my head was ready for this challenge, my legs were unfortunately not coordinated with my wishes ...
I preferred to leave early to avoid the crowds, which were too dense and which, quite unintentionally, could cause me anxiety very quickly. However, even when I departed from home at 8:00 am, there was already a crowd standing at the gate ... as if I was going to be the only one with this idea!
If everything was superbly organized, the safety barrier would have to be reviewed at the next edition. Not that security was badly organized, on the contrary. Unfortunately we had to face the incivility of certain visitors who tried to bypass the waiting queue when we were all in the same galley (yes, the word is of circumstance)!
After this very French inconvenience, the ships were all sublime and the crews adorable ... always available for photos, comments when I imagine that at times, they had to be exhausted from all these requests. Indeed, living the solitude of the sea and being faced with thousands of people must have been tiring for them. They were admirable all along but had to be relieved the day they left!
My favorite is undoubtedly the Mexican ship, the Cuauhtémoc. Merry, elegant, amazing crew.
adorable, I understand the love at first sight of young girls who "crack" literally for these sailors with a singing accent and obvious kindness. The charm operates immediately with these men and women from Mexico. I must admit that I was completely under their spell thanks to their contagious good humor. And no, I did not crack, I am no longer in condition !!!
So to pay them a well-deserved tribute, I will present the Cuauhtémoc and its crew first, the other ships will follow in alphabetical order (or so I tried...)
Three-masted boat
Launch: 1982
Length: 90.5 m
Home port: Acapulco
Property of the Mexican Navy, it is a symbol in his country, illustrating the fighting spirit of the emperor Cuauhtémoc, represented on the bow.
It also took up many challenges including a crossing of the Atlantic in 22 days. (sic)
"Everything in this world, I thought to myself, including the command of a pretty three-masted boat, can become a decoy and a trap where man's reckless pride is taken." -Joseph Conrad/Falk (2008)-
"Our soul is a three-masted man seeking his Icarie (...)." - Charles Baudelaire / The Flowers of Evil -
"They denigrate us, the crooks denigrate us, when there is only one difference, they rob the poor under the guise of the law, while we rob the rich under the protection of our courage." -The pirate Bellamy at his trial in 1720-
"Whoever plunders with a small ship is called a pirate; the one who plunders with a large ship is called conqueror. » -Greek proverb-
"You must not link a ship to a single anchor, nor a life to a single hope." -Epicetet-
"Suck the marrow of life yes, but don't swallow the bone! you have to know how to challenge and know how to be wary the good sailor must know how to squint" -The film "The Circle of The Missing Poets"-
"No council is more loyal than one which is given on a ship in peril." -Leonardo da Vinci-
"You have to row before you hold the rudder, keep your bow and observe the winds before you steer the ship yourself." -Aristophanes-
"When you don't know which port you're sailing to, no wind is the right one" -Seneca-
What a welcome !
Too happy to see women on board ... I know, it's my feminist side that comes out from time to time ...
Look at that wonderful smile, real and welcoming.
I still asked myself a question, my "headache of the day": we always talk about "sailors" but what do we call the women who work in the navy ?!
I tried in French since that problem isn't one as far as English is concerned:
-"marine" ... it doesn't work!
-"marinière" ... I wear it from time to time!
-"marineuse" ... still not!
-"marinaire" ... even less!
Concerning women, this is what I could find: we will say "women officers", " women petty officers and crew", "women embarked on ships of the Navy". Obviously, not everything is feminized yet in our French professional language.
"A calm sea has never made a good sailor." -English proverb -
"In the sailor's house the children can swim." -Chinese proverb -
"The storm is a good girl, it always gives the sailor a chance." - Didier The Fisherman / The Still Men-
"A small star, it is able to guide the sailor in the sea, a single spark can always ignite a gigantic fire." - Ivan Vazov / Fires that are not extinguished -
"The ideal is for us what a star is for the sailor. It cannot be reached but it remains a guide." -Albert Schweitzer -
"I think it's beautiful for a sailor to be mysteriously swept away by the sea. It's prettier than a funeral." -Florence Arthaud / Figaro, 25 February 1991 -
"The sailor is distinguished by his ability to practice napping at all times, in all places, in all weathers. For what is taken is no longer to be taken." -Hervé Hamon / The Bee of Ushant -
"The sailor's worst enemy is not the storm raging; it is not the foaming wave that falls on the bridge, taking everything in its path; it is not the treacherous reef hidden in the water and tearing the side of the ship; the sailor's worst enemy is alcohol!" -Hergé / Captain Haddock in The Crab with the Golden Claws -
"We must remember our dreams, with the rigor of the sailor who keeps his eye on the stars. Then we have to devote every hour of our life in doing everything in our power to get close to it, because nothing is worse than resignation." -Gilbert Sinoué -
The emperor Cuauhtémoc gets a makeover ...
They can come and polish my house whenever they want... these sailors are very gifted !
Cuauhtémoc can be proud of its sailors.
They are working laughing and singing. Great.
In balance, harnessed, on makeshift swings, I found them admirable.
In working outfits, they are always and again charming... I adopt them!!!
Always in a good mood, they make visitors happy.
I'm glad to have seen them at work before the opening at 10.00 o'clock.
How can we explain that he is doing this difficult job with such joy?... Have you ever tried to ask your teen to clean his room?! ...
"A smile is often the main thing. We're paid for by a smile. We're rewarded with a smile." -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry / Letter to a Hostage-
"Smile - it's forgetting the grimace." - Gunnar Bjarling / Thought-
"The smile you're sending comes back to you." -Hindu proverb-
"Smile is the universal language of goodness." -William Arthur Ward -
"Smile is first and foremost a decision." - Claire de Lamirande / May Snow -
"Happiness is the smile of the heart." -Delphine Lamotte -
"Caress your sentence at length and it will eventually smile." - Anatole France-
"My father, this hero with such a sweet smile" - Victor Hugo / After the battle -
"Smile is the perfection of laughter. As defiance arouses defiance, the smile calls for a smile: it reassures the other about oneself and all things around." - Alain / Elements of philosophy -
"Elegance is not a matter of taste. Every culture has a way of seeing beauty, which very often is completely different from ours." -Paulo Coelho/The Recovered Manuscript (2012)-
"Elegance: the maximum intensity in the minimum of effects." -Pascal Bruckner/A Good Son (2014)-
Arrogance attracts hatred and envy. Elegance awakens respect and love." -Paulo Coelho/The Recovered Manuscript (2012)-
"Elegance is not a matter of wearing coats, nor is it a matter of wallet." -Karl Lagerfeld/The world according to Karl. Selected Quotes by Karl Lagerfeld (2013) -
"If you want to be loved, be kind; otherwise, the charms of the figure and the elegance of the height will be insufficient." -Ovid/The Art of Love -
"The closer the heart gets to simplicity, the more it is able to love without restriction and without fear. The more he loves without fear, the more elegant he can be in every little gesture." -Paulo Coelho/The Recovered Manuscript (2012)-
"The sublime touches, the beautiful charms." -Emmanuel Kant / Observations on the feeling of the beautiful and the sublime -
"Hang a smile on your face, it gives it charm." -Roland Delisle -
"Beauty pleases the eyes, sweetness charms the soul." - Voltaire-
"A being who has charm has charm for everyone." -Madeleine Chapsal / Dare to write -
"Great events don't take away their charm from small pleasures." - André Maurois / Olympio or the life of Victor Hugo -
"Charm: a way to hear yourself answer "yes" without asking any clear questions." - Albert Camus / The Fall-
"With the years, men acquire charm and women age." -Dominique Muller / Prodigal Girls -
"Perfection and imperfection. If both can be beauty, only imperfection can make the charm." -Angélique Planchette -
"What makes friendships indissoluble and doubles their charm, is a feeling that lacks love, certainty." - Honored balzac / Lost Illusions -
"A team: You... Him... Me... Them... but one purpose and one spirit." -Paul Vialar/The Sport (1963)-
"Friendship. Boat large enough to carry two people when the weather is nice, but only one in bad weather. » -Quote from Ambrose Bierce -
"A kind companion is worth a crew" -Quote by Publius Syrus-
"Why hate us? We are in solidarity, carried away by the same planet, crew of the same ship. » -Quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -
"Life is a crossing, choose the right boat and the right crew." -Rondro H Rakotobe-
"It's certainly a great thing for the crews to go around the world without letting go in O-Taïti" - PERUGIA-
"Hold hand to ensure that the distribution of wine to the crews of the ships is done with such measures [in accordance with the standards]" -To the stewards, 1679, in Jal de Seignelay-
"The greatest glory is not to never fall, but to rise after every fall." -Confucius-
"When two forces are joined, their effectiveness is twofold." -Isaac Newton-
"Our bed, this lifeboat on the ominous waters of the night." -Bernard Minier/Don't Turn Off the Light (2014)-
"Hope is to the freedom fighter what the lifeline is to the swimmer: the guarantee that he will not drown, that he will remain safe from danger." -Nelson Mandela/Letter, to Winnie Mandela, 1 August 1970-
"The greatness of my civilization is that a hundred miners must risk their lives for the rescue of a single buried miner. They save Manhood." -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry/War Pilot (1942)-
"Hope is the lifeline when the boat capsizes." -Athmene Daoudi-
"The silhouette of his building stood out on the blue water and the clear sky, it seemed indestructible, eternal. What an illusion! Did he think bitterly... No ship was more resilient than those that served on board." -Douglas Reeman/Flag Captain (1999) (under the pseudonym Alexander Kent)-
"Every afternoon, when the day declines, I am at the stern of the ship, and I look at the shining wake. This is my favorite moment, when everything is peaceful, and the bridge deserted, except the helmsman and a sailor who watches the sea." -Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio/The Golden Seeker (1985)-
The Cuauhtémoc is absolutely, definitely shining. It shines so much that I wanted to ask the sailors if they could not come to the house to clean up and shine the brass ... with a handsome officer to supervise everything! ... yes, you might as well combine business with pleasure ...
To add up, sweet aromas coming out of the kitchens awakened our taste buds already captivated by this magnificent ship. Some would surely have engaged on the field to taste good Mexican cuisine.
If I had to define the Cuauhtémoc in one word, it would be: masterpiece.
"Once upon a time there was an old man, all alone in his boat fishing in the middle of the Gulf Stream. In eighty-four days, he had not caught a fish." -The Old Man and the Sea /Ernest Hemingway-
"Nothing is sadder than a sailor abandoned by his boat in a foreign country." -The Ship of the Dead /B. Traven-
"The boat that the bow steers does not go far." - Malaysian proverb-
"You are surprised and you show me the sea: it seems to be on fire. As the flaming wave stirs around the boat in the darkness! It does not surprise me: the sea has given birth to Aphrodite, and has it not come out of her a flame, — her son?" -Epigrams / Goethe-
"Yann had found on this boat what he had been looking for months: to finally make sense of his life and to escape the world that was no longer his own." -Don't let the sea swallow you / Alain Jégou-
"Governing: Leading by boat." - Scattered thoughts of a flap-joy /Abel Castel-
"The sacred knots of true friendship are much more easily formed under a humble roof and in the shepherds' huts than in the palaces of kings." - L'Arioste / Roland Furious -
"Life is not smooth! It is full of bumps and hollows, rough and tormented! Life is made of knots!" - Marie Gagnier / An island adrift
"The fools tie the knots and the wise ones unravel them." -James Freeman Clarke / Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina -
"The bow tie lives more than twenty-four hours." - Michèle Bernier / The Little Book by Michèle Bernier -
"You can tie a broken thread, but there will be a knot in the middle." - Persian proverb -
"A broken rope can be knotted, but the knot will be felt." -Persian proverb-
"A hundred city dwellers cannot untie the knot made by a peasant." -Persian proverb -
"Even after my death I will not forget you I will do if necessary a knot to my shroud." -e Charles Simond-
“Le "The whole world yearns for freedom, and yet every creature is in love with its chains. This is the first paradox and the inextricable knot of our nature. " - Shrî Aurobindo / Overviews and thoughtsmonde tout entier aspire à la liberté, et pourtant chaque créature est amoureuse de ses chaînes. Tel est le premier paradoxe et le noeud inextricable de notre nature. ” - Shrî Aurobindo / Aperçus et pensées-
Even at dock, it is always important to know where the buoys are!...-
"Hope is to the freedom fighter what the lifeline is to the swimmer: the guarantee that he will not drown, that he will remain safe from danger." -Nelson Mandela/Letter, to Winnie Mandela, 1 August 1970-
"The job was the last buoy of the castaways of the heart." -Jean-Christophe Grangé/The Passenger (2011)-
"Yurt: felt buoy so you don't drown in the ocean of the steppes." -Sylvain Tesson/Aphorisms Under the Moon and Other Wild Thoughts (2008)-
"Nobel Prize money is like a lifeline sent to a swimmer who has already reached the coast safely." -George Bernard Shaw-
""A buoy is the beginning of a mortuary crown that the future drowned put around their necks before sinking." -Philippe Bouvard/Bouvard from A to Z (2014)-
"What does nature mean? Is it a living entity with a will and a destiny as sailors think of their ships?" -Matthew Shiel Phipps -
"Guided by your smell towards charming climates, I see a port filled with sails and masts still tired of the sea wave, while the scent of the tamarind greens, which circulates in the air and swells my nostril, mixes in my soul with the singing of the sailors." -Exotic perfume/Baudelaire-
"Literature is like the navy. One is a merchant and the other is at war." -Critical life / Arnaud Viviant-
Caesar: Everyone knows that it is in the navy that there are the most cuckolds. -Marius/ Marcel Pagnol-
"Respect is earned, Mr. Borlase, it is not given to you with the uniform of the Royal Navy." -Mutiny aboard/Alexander Kent-
"You can say that a fisherman on foot works in the merchant navy." - Marc Escayrol-
"Aspirin. Wife of a navy aspirant, usually very elegant, she gives fashion a special character, an aspirin stamp!" -The Dictionary / Muriel Robin-
"I'm not interested in the earth at all. Except when it is fringed by the sea, then it is beautiful: a wheat field stirred by sea breezes where the smell of wheat is maturing and the fresh air that comes from the sea, that's extraordinary." -Ocean's Songs / Olivier de Kersauson-
"I joined the Navy the day my father taught me that I was on earth to work." -Pierre Doris-
"The sea teaches sailors dreams that ports murder." - Bernard Giraudeau / The Men on the Ground -
"Children are like sailors: wherever their eyes are, everywhere is the immensity." - Christian Bobin / The Missing Part -
"The sea is a crucial element for the knowledge of people. The sea shapes the customss as it makes the shores. All marine people have whim, if not madness, in their souls." - André Suarès / Three men -
"The sailors believe in God. When you're alone at sea, it's much easier to believe. " -Florence Arthaud / Paris Match, 25 March 1993 -
"The Mermaids charm all the mortals who approach them. ... Go without stopping! » -Homer / The Iliad-
"Man cannot discover new oceans until he has the courage to lose sight of the coast." -André Gide-
"Knowledge is a navigation in an ocean of uncertainties through archipelagos of certainties." -Edgar Morin-
"The boat is freedom, not just the means to achieve a goal." -Bernard Moitessier-
"You never go as far as when you don't know where you're going." -Christophe Columbus-
"In 20 years, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than the things you did. So, get off the beaten track. Set sail. Explore. Dream. View. » -Mark Twain-
"Navigating is an activity that is not suitable for impostors. In many professions, one can delude and bluff with impunity. On a boat, we know or we don't know. » -Eric Tabarly-
"When you don't know which port you're sailing to, no wind is the right one." -Seneca-
"The profession of sailor pushes those who profess it to want to know the secrets of this world." -Christophe Columbus-
He who plunders with a small ship is named pirate; who plunders with a large ship is called conqueror. » -Greek proverb-
"He cries out in front of the sea: "It's beautiful, the ocean, but what lost ground!" -Maupassant-
"Whether you throw the ocean or a glass of water on the hole of a needle, there will always be only a drop of water." -Jules Fox-
"A boat is no bigger or smaller, depending on whether it is at the bottom or top of the wave." -Breton proverb-
"Happiness is like a frail sailboat in the open sea: it only takes a storm to destroy it." -Lena Allen-Shore-
"It was the sailboats that discovered the world, and they carry many legends in their wake." -Olivier de Kersauson-
"Man does not achieve everything he hopes for. The winds do not blow at the whim of the sailboats. » -Zahiri of Samarkand-
"Since you can't change the direction of the wind, you have to learn how to steer the sails." -James Dean-
"Goldfish cannot bring the complexity of the oceans back to the tranquillity of its jar." -Yasmina Khadra/The African Equation-
"When we are thirsty, it seems to us that we could drink an entire ocean: it is faith. And when we start drinking, we have a drink or two: that's science. » -Anton Chekov-
"When you look at your past life, you think you see a ship that has disappeared on a deserted sea." -François René de Chateaubriand-
"In maritime intimacy, the lagoon is to the lagoon what everyone is to each." -Pierre Dac-
"No sooner has we begun to learn a little than death happens before we have experience. As for me, I dare not make any plans I find myself like a drop of water in a huge ocean." Micromegas/Voltaire-
"It's not about washing your body but your soul young people. If you're rotten from the inside, neither the rivers nor the oceans could disinfect you." -The sirens of Baghdad /Yasmina Khadra-
"The world is an ocean of lies that only a breeze of truth can make vibrate." -The good of humanity / Dimitri Semenikhin-
"If I die before I'm done, my children will find in the false-laque cupboard that is in my closet and is all in drawers, a considerable amount of things half done or quite written, verse, prose. They'll publish it all under the title Ocean." -Ocean /Victor Hugo-
"You know, you always imagine that an ocean separates madness from mental health, but they're more like neighboring islands." -The hearts feles / Gayle Forman-
"The bell itself doesn't always sound the same." - Serbian proverb -
"It does not matter that the bell has any defect, as long as the flap is good." - Pierre de Brantôme -
"I stretched the strings of bell tower to bell tower; window-to-window garlands; gold chains from star to star, and I dance." -Arthur Rimbaud / The Illuminations -
Rigging: Three-masted boat
Launching year: 1905
Overall length: 56.7m
Flag: Netherlands
Home port: Harlingen
Launched in 1905 in Hamburg, it was originally called Elbe 2. Originally a mastless boat, it began a long coaster career and guided ships in the Elbe estuary.
In 1984, its Dutch owner, transformed it into a cruising sailboat to sail in Western Europe and the Caribbean Sea under the name of Atlantis.
The Atlantis is a three-masted schooner belonging to the company The Tallship Compagny from the Netherlands. It can take 36 people in 18 comfortable double cabins. On its upper deck, it has a reception lounge for 80 guests. (Sic)
"We're all rowing on the same boat." -Zenobios, Greek philosopher-
"Not only are we all on the same boat, but we are all seasick." -Gilbert Keith Chesterton-
"Why hate us? We are in solidarity, carried away by the same planet, crew of the same ship. » -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry-
"If you want to go out to sea, without any risk of capsizing, then don't buy a boat: buy an island!" -Marcel Pagnol-
"Seagulls are born from handkerchiefs that are waved at the start of the boat." -Ramon Gomez de la Serna-
"The boat is freedom, not just the means to achieve a goal." -Bernard Moitessier, French navigator-
"It's the pilot who sees far away that won't cause his boat to capsize." -Amenoped, pharaoh of Tanis-
"Society is like a ship; everyone has to contribute to the leadership of the rudder. » -Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright-
"When the ship has to sink, the rats are the first to leave it." -Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian writer-
"I too expect books I mean to write that they rescue me, that they take me in their boat, that they lead me to the shore of an ideal place." -Eric Reinhardt-
"Passions are the winds that swell the ship's sails; they sometimes overwhelm him, but without them he would not be able to sail. » -Voltaire-
"Love is a small boat that goes away, all joyful, on the wave, sailing to new countries at random from its wandering race." -Charles Trenet-
"Life is your ship, not your home." -Alphonse de Lamartine-
"You have to row before you hold the rudder, keep your bow and observe the winds before you steer the ship yourself." -Aristophanes, Greek poet-
"There is no place where you can breathe more freely than on the deck of a ship." Elsa Triolet-
"The marina is a place designed for sailors who don't go out to sea, to meet holidaymakers who don't have a boat." -Philippe Bouvard-
"A boat is a beauty and a mystery wherever you see it." -Harriet Beecher Stowe-
"The fisherman who, with oars, moves his boat forward, has his past in front of him and his future behind his back." -Sophocles, Greek playwright-
Crew: 5
Launching year: 1984
Overall length: 31.3 m
Capacity: 70 in reception; 60 in navigation
Flag: Spain
The Atyla was built from 1980 to 1984 on various Spanish shipyards on plans by Esteban Vicente Jiménez who wanted to make a schooner according to plans from the beginning of the 19th century and in a traditional way. His intention was to be able to go around the world according to the itinerary of the expedition of Fernand de Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano (1519-1522).
It was launched on May 15, 1984 under the name of Itsaso-Petronor (sponsored by the homonymous oil company). The end of construction was carried out at the Celaya shipyard in Erandio, in the estuary of Bilbao. Then it took the name of Marea Errota (in memory of the tide mill of the place of the beginning of its construction) from 1984 to 2005. From 2005 to 2012, it was known under the name of Cantabria Infinita and had Santander as home base .
The schooner took the name of Atyla in 2013 and has the home port of Bilbao
Since 2014, the schooner has served as a training vessel on European coasts. (Sic)
But who is Atyla?!
"The boat that does not withstand the first storm is not made for the trip." -Moses Isegawa, Ugandan author
"It is always said that when a ship is about to sink into the open sea, rats feel danger long before men and all run away together. Question: Where can they go? » -François Cavanna-
"You must not link a ship to a single anchor, nor a life to a single hope." -Epicetian, Phrygian philosopher-
"When you look at your past life, you think you see a ship that has disappeared on a deserted sea." -François René de Chateaubriand-
"In the past the slaves on this boat in Ouidah or Porto-Novo knew where they came from but didn't know where they were going. Today, they still do not know where they are going, but they no longer know where they are coming from. » -Romuald Hazoumé, Beninese artist
"The vessel of femininity: curved in bow, majestic stern and peppered in the hatches." -Louise de Vilmorin-
"We are all on the same boat, promised to the same shipwreck and there will be no survivors." -Philippe Bouvard-
"Nature teaches men to swim when they sink their boat." -Saït Faïk Abasiyanik, Turkish writer-
"When seagulls follow a trawler, they think they're going to be thrown sardines at them." -Eric Cantona-
"Travelling is easy. Just marry a bow. » -Yvon Rivard, Quebec writer-
"The ships that were coming brought new people, men and women who landed in search of the easy gold which was born on the cocoa tree." -Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer-
"You always have to break the ice that forms around the boat." -Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve-
"A young woman for an old man is a boat that does not respond to the rudder and does not hold the anchor." -Theognis, Greek poet-
"The pirate must know how to drive his boat as well if not better than the navigators he braves." -Hubert Haddad, Tunisian writer-
Crew: 16 people
Rigging: Three masts
Launching year: 1896
Overall length: 58m
Flag: France
Home port: Nantes
Belem is the name of a port in Brazil. It is the last three-masted French barque in navigation condition, classified as a historic monument in 1984.
Built in Nantes, used in particular in the West Indies, then in turn English, Italian then again French, this old cargo sailboat, several times transformed, motorized and renamed, for various uses. The Belem foundation inherited it in 1980.
Formerly intended for the transport of goods, today, it is a school boat. It is used for training young people, especially in the French Navy for training its mosses, and can take up to 48 trainees. It offers initiation and discovery courses for enthusiasts.
Its motto "Favet Neptunus eunti" means: Neptune favors those who leave. (Sic)
"When the facts turned into a legend, publish the legend." -John Ford -
"Like wine, legends rejoice the heart of man." - The Talmud -
"Events that touch on legend promise the unpredictable, differ fate." -André Malraux-
"To be alive, a legend must serve." - Louis Lefebvre / Le Collier d'Hurruca
"All the countries of the world that no longer have legends will be condemned to die of cold." -Patrice of The Tower of the Pine -
"It is rare that the truth catches up with the lost ground on the legend." - Stefan Zweig / Amerigo -
"The legend is truer to me than the story." - Alain / History of my thoughts -
"Life is only worth living if it is a legend." - Olivier Frébourg / The Voyage appears -
"Time breaks and disperses reality, what remains becomes myth and legend." - Nuto Revelli / The Missing Marburg -
"Humanity is no longer even a legend, it is a myth." -Roman Gary-
"It is the sailboats that have discovered the world, and they carry in their wake many legends." - Olivier de Kersauson / Free Man... -
"It was crazy, the power of a legend, when you bothered to believe it." -Didier Van Cauwelaert / One-way ticket
Crew: officers, 12 sailors and 18 cadets
Rigging: Three-masted square
Launching year: 1999
Overall length: 76 m
Flag: Brazil
Home port: Rio de Janeiro
The Cisne Branco is the school ship of the Brazilian Navy, and the ambassador ship of a nation, built for the celebrations of the 500th anniversary of the discovery of Brazil. Built in the Netherlands, it was handed over to the Brazilian Navy on March 9, 2000 during the festivities commemorating the 500th anniversary of the discovery of Brazil in Lisbon, 500 years to the day after the departure of Lisbon from the navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral , journey during which it will reach the coasts of Brazil.
Its missions are to represent Brazil at national and international nautical events, open up the maritime world to civil society, preserve naval traditions and occasionally train the personnel of the Brazilian national navy. He trains future sailors by embarking up to 58 cadets during his long-distance trips. (Sic)
"Our world has just found another, this other world will only come into light when ours comes out"-Michel de Montaigne De Michel de Montaigne / Des Coches, Essays, III , 6 (1595) -
"Brazil is a too hot country where nature will one day eat the fragile elevated decorations that man tries to surround himself with. Termites will devour the skyscrapers, sooner or later the virgin vines will block the others and the truth of Brazil will finally come out." -Albert Camus / a correspondence to René Char, August 1949 -
"Guanabara Bay [...] That's what the natives call it. The Portuguese entered it fifty years ago, one day in January. These ignorant people thought it was a river: they called it the "January River," Rio de Janeiro." -Jean-Christophe Rufin / Red Brazil -
"When we describe the present of Brazil, it is already, without knowing it,that we talk about the past. It is only by already having one's future in sight that it is given its true meaning." -Stefan Zweig / Brazil Land of the Future (Albin Michel, 1942) -
"I love your homeland in ever-pure heaven - Paradise that cradles itself between the azure waves - Where the sun is burning, like a fairy lighthouse - Covers the soil of America with its rays [...]" -Victor Hugo / poem published in 1902 in the Jornal do Brasil-
"The ships that were coming brought new people, men and women who landed in search of the easy gold that was born on the cocoa tree." - Jorge Amado / The Land of Golden Fruits -
"Brazil did not make a less stronger impression on me; was not a lesser promise to me. [...] Here the civilization created by Europe could be perpetuated and developed into new and different forms. " - Stefan Zweig / Yesterday's World. Memories of a European, 1944-
"A province in Brazil has just declared slavery abolished [...] Brazil has an emperor; this emperor is more than an emperor, he is a man. We congratulate and honour him. By the end of the century, slavery will have disappeared from the earth." -Victor Hugo / text written to celebrate the abolition of slavery in a province of Brazil. The "Journal of Debates," March 24, 1884 -
"Brazil was a young country and there was little regard for the origins of the fortunes that amassed or evaporated there, overnight." - Jean-Paul Delfino / Saudade-
"When I fell into this continent in 1951, I came from a grey, frizzy Europe, with bitter veterans, soldiers in rout and crematorium ovens (...) Brazil was in colour, on the contrary. In the streets went black, white, red or gold skins, and they had fun together." -Dictionary in love with Brazil/ Gilles Lapouge-
"Your Christ is Jewish, your pizza is Italian, your coffee is Brazilian, your car is Japanese, your writing is Latin, your holiday is Turkish, your numbers are Arabic and. .. you blame your neighbor for being a stranger!. " -Your Christ is Jewish, I have 20 years of songs / Julos Beaucarne-
"When I feed the poor, I am called a saint," says Brazilian bishop Helder Camara. And when I ask why they have nothing to eat, they call me a communist." -Sense upside down, The school of the world upside down/Edouardo Galeano-
"Brazil is my second home, Portuguese is my second language and Brazilians are my new family." -Shakira-
"Brazil is a too hot country where nature will one day eat the fragile elevated decorations that man tries to surround himself with. Termites will devour the skyscrapers, sooner or later the virgin vines will block the others and the truth of Brazil will finally come out." -Albert Camus/ Artist, writer (1913 - 1960)-
Where blood has flowed, the tree of oblivion cannot grow. " -Brazilian proverb-
"Love is blind, so you have to touch." -Brazilian proverb-
"Hope is the last to die. " -Brazilian proverb-
"The poor man eats meat when he bites his tongue. " -Brazilian proverb-
"Fresh water driling down the hard stone eventually pierces it." -Brazilian proverb-
"In the closed mouth do not enter mosquitoes. " -Brazilian proverb-
"A wolf doesn't eat a wolf." -Brazilian proverb-
"The lie has short legs." -Brazilian proverb-
"Good will shortens the way." -Brazilian proverb-
View on the left bank through the flags of the Cisne Branco.
"When it will rain porridge, beggars will have forks." -Brazilian proverb-
"It is in adversity that friendship is proven" -Brazilian proverb-
"Old beef prefers tender grass" -Brazilian proverb-
"God is great, but the forest is even greater." -Brazilian proverb-
"Where blood has flowed, the tree of oblivion cannot grow." -Brazilian proverb-
"The earth is not thirsty for the blood of warriors, but for the sweat of men." -Brazilian proverb-
"Words don't salt the soup." -Brazilian proverb-
"As long as I'm running, my father has a son." -Brazilian proverb-
"An old father and torn sleeves have never disgraced anyone." -Brazilian proverb-
Crew: 16 men and 40 trainees
Rigging: Three-masted schooner
Launching year: 1989
Overall length: 58.1 m
Flag: Netherlands
Home port: Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Eendracht is a three-masted schooner from the Netherlands, built in 1989. Its design allows it to navigate on a large boat all occupants regardless of their age.
From May to September, it sails in northern European waters and travels to the Canaries in winter.
During the summer holidays, only young people from 15 to 25 years old go on board to participate in large races. (Sic)
Having walked up and down the docks of the right bank, I did not have the strength to cross the left bank to admire the ships overthere, such as the Eendracht which I only photographed from the opposite bank. ... I will start with the left bank during the next edition ...
"We only have the good we do to ourselves." -Dutch proverb-
"Three midwives, three servants, and three lavenders together form nine matchmakers. " -Dutch proverb-
"If the thief stopped stealing, the dog would stop barking. " -Dutch proverb-
"Everything in the appearance, and nothing in the being." -Dutch proverb-
"Blacksmith's children are used to sparks. " -Dutch proverb-
"A dog with a bone doesn't know any friends. " -Dutch proverb-
Crew: 12 men
Launch year: 2010
Overall length: 51 m
Flag: Spain
El Galeón or Galeón Andalucía is a replica of a 16th century Spanish galleon designed and built by Ignacio Fernández Vial. It was sponsored and built by the Junta of Andalusia and the Nao Victoria Foundation with the objectives of promoting the Guadalquivir Rio de Historia project and staying next to the Spanish pavilion during the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai and becoming ambassador of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia.
In addition, his trip served to sign agreements with several Andalusian universities, with that of Barcelona and with that of Liverpool, to carry out various studies. She also received the Grand Voilier prize from the Spanish Sailing Federation.
It is a reproduction of the galleons of the fleets of New Spain, Tierra Firme and the galleon of Manila, which from the Spanish ports traded during the XVIIth century with various ports of America and Asia. It was designed and built by Ignacio Fernández Vial, after a long process of historical research. On his first trip, he had a crew of 32 people led by the navigation teacher Antonio Gonzalo de la Cruz.
Its main deck has a bowsprit and three masts with seven sails. The stern is decorated with a Marian representation, the Esperanza du Triana, a replica of which is also found in the officers' square.
The structure is made of oak, iroko and pine wood with a fiberglass coating. Although it is a replica, it includes 21st century technology, particularly to guarantee safety on board. (Sic)
"Castles in Spain that cost nothing to build are ruinous to demolish." -François Mauriac -
"Fashion is for France what the mines of Peru are for Spain." -Jean-Baptiste Colbert -
"The predictions for the coming week. Fish: Friday is your day. Taurus avoid travel to Spain. Cancer: Be screened. Balance: Try to lose weight." - Philippe Geluck / Dr. G. takes stock -
"The speed that is a virtue, begets its vice which is haste." - Gregorio Maranon / Root and decorum of Spain -
"History must keep life alive." - Americo Castro / Reality of Spain -
"You get used to everything, even to what you'll never accept." - Claude Charron / Probably Spain-
"Never ask for the moon. It could be given to you. So what would you do with it?" -Jean Chalon / Journal of Spain -
"Being young means saying yes to everything. To be old is to learn to say no." -Jean Chalon / Journal of Spain -
"The path is built by walking." -Antonio Machado -
"Not all the treasures of the earth are worth the happiness of being loved." - Calderon -
"The most perfect technique is the one you don't notice." - Pablo Casals -
"Read a book under a tree double the fun. We don't know if we turn the pages or flip through the tree." -Jean Chalon / Journal of Spain-
"Whoever honors his father will rejoice in his sons. " -Spanish Quote/ Spain in Proverbs (1909)-
"The real thing is always true." - The book of Spanish proverbs; 13th century.-
"It takes a young heart little time to ignite, burn boldly, and die out in an instant. " -Spanish proverbs and sayings (1882)-
"Where between drinking, comes out the knowledge." -Spanish proverbs and sayings (1840)-
"Unresolved people let their soup freeze from plate to mouth." - Spanish proverbs and sayings (1840)-
"Irresolution is worse than bad execution; waters corrupt less when they run than when they are stagnant." -Spanish proverbs and sayings (1840)-
"Intelligence is a luxury, sometimes useless, sometimes fatal, it is a torch or a torch, depending on the use one makes of it." - Spanish proverbs and sayings (1840)-
"Just as the butterfly likes to fly over the bright flame that must give it death, so we, men, turn around the peril with joyful carelessness. " - Spanish proverbs and sayings (1840)-
"The hypocrite enters by licking, and comes out biting." - Spanish proverbs and sayings (1840)-
"Who sleeps long will never be learned." -Spanish proverbs and sayings (1882)-
"Everyone would like to be good, but few are." - Spanish proverbs and sayings (1882)-
"The truth, like oil, rises above everything." -Spanish proverbs and sayings (1882)-
"Who lends his money reaps nothing but torment." -Spanish proverbs and sayings (1840)-
"Hate of brothers, hatred of devils." -Spanish proverbs and sayings (1882)-
"Not everyone who studies is a scholar; not everyone who goes to war is a soldier. " -Spanish proverbs and sayings (1882)-
"Going to war or getting married, shall not be advised. " - Spanish proverbs and sayings (1882)-
"To many supper, a night is never good." -Spanish proverbs and sayings (1840)-
"In the good, it is better to have the fact than the intention; in evil, it is better to intend than to do so. Thus, it is better to do well than power, and it is better to intend to be sick than to be indeed. " -Spanish proverbs and sayings (1840)-
Rig: Frigate
Launching year: 1997
Overall length: 46.3m
Flag: France
Home port: St Malo
The "Etoile du Roy" is the wooden replica of a Falkland Corsican frigate from 1745. This 3 mast ship of 310 tons with 240 crew was armed with 20 guns.
Built in 1996 in Turkey under the name of Grand Turk, it has been the flagship of the Etoile Marine Croisières fleet since 2010. It is often used in movies in theaters or in TV series. Based in Saint-Malo, the Etoile du Roy is today an extraordinary ship that can carry 120 people at sea. It is also an unusual place of reception . (sic)
"Live content, you will live as a king." -Eastern proverb-
"Treasurers are the king's sponges." - French proverb -
"The rooster is king on his manure." -Seneca / Apocolokyntosis -
"An unliterate king is a crowned donkey." -Vespasiano da Bisticci -
"Hide, virtue of king and maid." - Voltaire-
"A king without justice is a river without water." -Arabic proverb -
"It's always said that pirates are rather smart, but we lack imagination when it comes to naming things." -Jack ,Pirates Of the Caribbean, Up to the End of the World -
"A weak king weakens the strongest people." - Luis Vaz de Camoens / The Lusiades -
"Which man is error-free? And what king without weakness?" - Voltaire / Brutus -
"In the realm of the blind the one-eyed is king." -Ancient Greek proverb -
"What the king commands is obeyed, but not executed." - César Oudin / Refranes o proverbios castellanos -
"Let the king only sigh and the whole kingdom moans." - William Shakespeare / Hamlet -
"A man without passion is a king without subject." -Vauvenargues -
"You must not be more royalist than the king." - François René de Chateaubriand / The monarchy according to the charter-
"The king does not administer, does not rule, he reigns." - Adolphe Thiers / The National (February 4, 1830)-
"I knew a king with early dementia whose folly was to think he was king." -Francis Picabia / Jesus Christ Rast and Breakfast -
"The bachelor lives like a king and dies like a dog, while the married man lives like a dog and dies like a king." -Jean Anouilh -
"If the king receives you and you feel uncomfortable, it is because the king is ill-mannered." - Marc-Gilbert Sauvageon / The Children of Edward -
"To capture bandits you have to start by capturing their king." - Chinese proverb -
"If at noon the king tells you it's dark, look at the stars." - Persian proverb -
"When a trader says the customer is king, let's be wary of the guillotine." - Robert Sabatier-
Crew: 19 officers, 22 non-commissioned officers and 136 cadets
Rigging: Three-masted square
Launching year: 1981
Overall length: 109m
Flag: Poland
Home port: Gdynia
Dar Mlodziezi, means "Gift of youth". This sailboat was built in 1981 in the Gdansk shipyards to replace the frigate Dar Pormoza, the Polish navy's training ship.
This sailboat is a very equipped training sailboat: radars, satellite communication systems, safety equipment ...
Regarding its hull, it has a square stern, decorated with hunting and galleon ports, a mixture of tradition and modernity.
With more than 100 meters long, it is part of very large sailing schools in the world. It can carry more than 130 cadets. It can spin up to 16 knots under sails. (Sic)
"Lazy youth, scumbag old age." -English proverb-
"Youth: Time of failures." - Henry de Montherlant / The Master of Santiago-
"Youth is a fraction of madness." - Arabic proverb -
"If youth knew, if old age could." -Henri Estienne / The Premics -
"Most men betray their youth." -Julien Green / Journal -
"Who loves youth, loves the sea." - Tennessee Williams / The Penguin Boxer -
Etoile:
Crew: 16 crew members
Rigging: Two-masted schooner with wooden hull
Launching year: 1932
Overall length: 37m
Capacity: 15 to 25 student interns
Flag: France
Belle Poule:
Rigging: Schooner
Launching year: 1932
Hull length: 37.50 m
Flag: France
Home port: Brest
L'Etoile
Originally from Normandy, built in Fécamp by the Normandy shipyards, on the model of Icelandic schooners, l'Etoile is the twin sister of the Belle Poule.
Based in Brest, this ship becomes a school sailboat. This sailboat contributes to the training of student officers during exercises in the Atlantic, English Channel, Mediterranean Sea. (Sic)
La Belle Poule
This sailboat is the 4th ship of the French Navy to bear the name of Belle Poule. Like its twin sister, the Star, the Belle Poule was built on the model of the schooners "Paimpolaises" which fished cod in Iceland.
She joined the Free French Forces during the Second World War. She also wears bowsprit, the pavilion at the Cross of Lorraine.
La Belle Poule is now a school sailboat and welcomes student officers in training. She regularly takes part in numerous nautical events. (Sic)
"The stars among the stars give little light and no more warmth." -Charlie Chaplin / My life -
"When the vulture dies, the hen doesn't cry." - German proverb-
"It is the stars, the stars up there that govern our existence." -William Shakespeare / King Lear-
"The fox waiting for the hen to fall stays hungry." -Ancient Greek proverb-
"I stretched the strings of bell tower to bell tower; window-to-window garlands; gold chains from star to star, and I dance." - Arthur Rimbaud / The Illuminations-
"Is it the egg the father of the hen or the hen the mother of the egg?" - Raymond Devos-
"Chaos gives birth to a star." - Charlie Chaplin -
"Don't count eggs in the arse of a hen." -Guadeloupean proverb -
"The vast night lights up all the stars." -Tagote -
"The neighbor's hen is always better than mine." - Brazilian proverb -
"Brilliant star, why don't I have your constancy?" - John Keats / Complete Poetry -
"The hen that sings the loudest is not the one that lays the best." -Thomas Fuller / Gnomologia -
"Wisdom is not learned, it shines in your star." -Paul Fleming / Weisheit -
"Hen who sings and rooster who lays eggs, it's the devil at home." - French proverb -
"He who orients himself on the star does not turn around." - Léonard de Vinci -
"Change the sky, you'll change the star." -Corsican proverb -
"When the fox starts preaching, watch out for your hen." - Basque proverb -
"A dream without stars is a forgotten dream." -Paul Eluard-
Crew: 4 to 12
Rigging: Three-masted schooner
Launching year: 1937
Overall length: 70 m
Flag: Netherlands
Home port: Kampen (Netherlands)
The Gulden Leeuw is a three-masted topsail schooner built in 1937 for the Danish Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Formerly called Dana, it was an oceanographic research vessel on behalf of the Danish Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. He also did numerous research missions in marine biology for the company Bertra International.
In 2000, it was sold to the Danish naval school. Then, in 2007, it underwent numerous transformations following its acquisition by the Dutch charter boat company. It can take up to 200 people for day trips or 50 cruise trainees. (Sic)
Crew: 257 sailors
Rigging: Four-masted boat
Launching year: 1926
Overall length: 114.5m
Flag: Russian Federation
Home port: Kaliningrad
This large German-made sailboat was built in 1926 to transport construction materials to Chile. It was then called "Padua" (from the name of the city of Padua in Italy). Given in 1946 to the former USSR as war damage, this four-masted boat received the name of Krusenstern (Kruzenshtern in English), in tribute to Baron Krusenstern, admiral of the early Russian imperial fleet from the 19th century.
Its first missions, after several years of repairs, renovation and modernization, were in the service of hydrographic and oceanographic studies for the Academy of Sciences, before being transferred to the Fisheries Department for the training of young people.
Today, it is a school ship based in Kalingrad. It is the second tallest sailboat in the world. It was used in three German films as well as in many Russian and Soviet films and it even served as a frame for the 1936 French film "Les Mutinés de l'Elsineur", by Pierre Chenal. (Sic)
"To become a centenarian, you have to start young." -Russian proverb-
"The beautiful moment of a debt is when you pay it." -Russian proverb-
"Scratch the Russian and you'll find the Tartar." -Joseph de Maistre-
Early in the morning, I was fascinated by these tightrope sailors, even impressed. Hypnotized, they may be harnessed, but the feat is no less. I come to a conclusion: to work on a ship, you must have neither seasickness, nor sickness from heights ... definitely, not a job for me!
"Life matters when it changes and it is not by balancing on the wire that the tightrope walker knows its precipice the most." -Louis-Philippe Hébert / The Cinema of Petite-Rivière-
"Blessed are the lovers. On the roller coaster." - Jacques Prévert / Lyrics-
"Loving is not taking roads that are all marked . It's walking over precipices and knowing that there's someone at the end who says in a soft, calm voice: move forward, keep moving forward, don't be afraid, you're going to make it," - Philippe Besson / To resolve farewell -
"What, in French, sounds good, can be very naughty translated in Russian." - Alexander Sumarokov / Epistle on the Russian language -
"If journalists were tightrope walkers, there would be a high mortality in the profession." - Coluche / Thoughts and anecdotes-
"Matabei was nothing of an ordinary man, of those who judge you and are full of themselves.He gave the impression of defending himself from a deep distraction, like a tightrope walker in vertigo to whom one would ask for the exact time." -The fan painter / Hubert Haddad-
"In politics, I appreciate proletarians; in love, Russian princesses." -Maxime Gorki / Untimely comments -
"The Russian revolution is the French revolution that is coming late, because of the cold." -Salvador Dali -
"For months, they've been learning to be tightrope walkers. Staying in control and yet letting go, it's on this thread that they're going to have to walk." -Love is an island /Claudie Gallay-
"Straight ahead is the South: Africa. To my left, the Russians; to my right the Yankees. The former are starving, the latter are hungry and the third are dying of indigestion." - Frédéric Beigbeder / Holidays in a coma -
"At night, all cats are tightrope walkers, children of the ball and hoops, witches of the place called The Seven Steps. Endowed with a red moon." -Thousand paper cranes / Chantal Dupuy-Dunier-
"There are no Russians, no English, no Jews, no Christians. There are only men pursuing the same goal, to become able to be." -Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff -
"Two hands joining together. It's like the kiss of an angel. Like the vertigo of the tightrope walker balancing on a wire." -I'm coming back for you / Guillaume Musso-
"If you don't talk much, you hear more." -Russian proverb-
"The most difficult thing for the poet is to remain continuously on this thread that is writing, to live every hour of his life at the height of the dream, to never go down, even for a moment, from the rope of his imagination. In truth, the most difficult thing is to become a tightrope walker of the verb." -Snow / Maxence Fermine-
"In a woman's tears, the wise man sees only water." - Russian proverb -
"There are two kinds of people. There are those who live, play and die. And there are those who never do anything but stand in balance on the edge of sight. There are the actors. And then there are the tightrope walkers." -Snow / Maxence Fermine-
"It is not the law that should be feared, but the judge." -Russian proverb-
"Who is digging a gap for others, falls into it... himself." - Russian proverb-
"Hair by hair, all the beard will come." -Russian proverb-
"Don't hang all on to the same clove." - Russian proverb -
"With a purse around their necks, no one can be hanged." - Russian proverb-
"The wise man still meditates, the madman has finished the affair." - Russian proverb-
"The defects are thick where love is thin." - Russian proverb -
"The insomniac dreams of a failure of consciousness that would allow him to sleep like the acrobat dreams of a failure of gravity that would allow him to never fall back." -Jean Baudrillard / Cool Memories-
"Even in paradise, it would be unbearable to live alone." -Russian proverb-
"Love is an art, an acrobatics, sometimes it's heroism." -Lya Luft / Losses and profits-
"In the pool of lies, only dead fish swim." -Russian proverb -
"As the acrobat descends from the monkey, the poet descends from the dream." -Christian Castelli Butcher/Poetry-
"Buckwheat porridge is our mother, rye bread is our father." -Russian proverb -
"One is received according to the outfit, and renewed according to the spirit." - Russian proverb -
To become an acrobat, you have to imitate monkeys. To become wise, you have to be inspired by the wizards." -Athmene Daoudi-
"The soap is grey, but it washes white." -Russian proverb -
"There are people who suffer stiff and others who suffer supplely: acrobats, virtuosis (installed) of pain." -Albert Camus/Carnets III, March 1951 - December 1959-
"If everyone was sweeping their doorstep, how clean the city would be!" -Russian proverb-
"The path of paradox is the path of truth. To experience Reality, you have to see it on the tightrope. Truths are judged only when they become acrobats." -Oscar Wilde/The Portrait of Dorian Gray (1891)-
"Death is not behind the mountains, it is behind our shoulders." -Russian proverb-
"Life is like a bicycle, you have to move forward so you don't lose your balance." -Albert Einstein-
"It's not the field that feeds, it's the farming." -Russian proverb -
"It is Russia, this glorious, incomparable mother, whose fame extends beyond the seas, this martyrdom, stubborn, extravagant, exalted, adored, with always unpredictable bursts, forever sublime and tragic!" -Doctor Zhivago / Boris Pasternak-
"Russia is not in Moscow, it is in the hearts of its children! Isn't that right, Dad?" -War and Peace (t. 2)/ Leo Tolstoy-
"There is no more art of reading than art of writing. As Woody Allen used to say: I took fast reading classes. I read War and Peace. It's happening in Russia." -Why read?/ Charles Dantzig-
"The whole history of Russia could be told through its jewels." -The pearls of the Moïka /Annie Degroote-
"Siberia is chilling our dreams of Russia." -Aphorisms under the moon and other wild thoughts / Sylvain Tesson-
"The wisdom of life is always deeper and broader than the wisdom of men." -Maxime Gorki-
"There is no other love than giving one's life for those you love." -Tolstoy-
"Russia has twelve spindles to weave the tapestry of its vastness" -Aphorisms under the moon and other wild thoughts / Sylvain Tesson-
"Since the great upheaval, everything has become overpriced in Russia, even the misery that, for centuries, had not cost a penny in that country." -Catherine Lovey/A Russian and Funny Novel (2010)-
"Will I blame your burning and tormented flame? I'd rather bow down in the mud. And I would go and bless with your bare feet the trace, O you, deprived of shelter, wandering and whimsical soul, Inspired Wanderer, O Russia in Christ!" -Maximilian Alexandrovich Volochine/Holy Russia-
"In Russia, there are many barks, shells; you think you see a man and, when you look closely, you realize that he only has the outside, the nucleus is missing, he has been eaten away." -Alekseyy Maksimovich Pechkov, said Maxim Gorki/My childhood life (1913)-
"Russia can do without us but none of us can live without it. Woe to the one who thinks otherwise, and even greater misfortune to the one who lives outside Russia!" -Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev/Roudine (1856)-
"During the Cold War, two blocks clash, a hot block, the United States with Miami and its beautiful beaches, and a cold block, Russia, with its vast ice, Siberia." -Pearls of the Bac/Shorts of bac copies (2013)-
"Leather: All leathers come from Russia." -Gustave Flaubert/Dictionary of Preconceived Ideas (1913)-
"Siberia is throwing a chill on our dreams of Russia." -Sylvain Tesson/Aphorisms Under the Moon and Other Wild Thoughts (2008)-
"Young people only care about America and Russia. The others are countries for leisure travel, countries without a creed." -Henri Michaux/A Barbarian in Asia (1933)-
"Philosophy enters the North; the Empress of Russia says it is only an aurora borealis; and I think this new light will be permanent." -Voltaire/ Letter to Marmontel, 1766-
"What if you stayed back? - Nevertheless, when we retired from Russia, it was the guys who were lagging behind who got killed." -Michel Audiard/The Tontons Gunners (1963) by Georges Lautner-
"I know that it is not fashionable to believe neither the travellers, nor the courtiers, nor the good they say of Russia." -Charles Joseph, Prince of Line/Letters to the Marquise of Coigny (1787)-
"In Russia, a man of talent cannot be blameless." -Anton Chekhov/Uncle Vania-
"Russia is bubbling with dissatisfied Christianity, it is the only country where a Christian revolution is imaginable." -Vladimir Volkoff/The Return (1979)-
"Don't promise a stork in the sky; rather give a chickadee in the hand. -Russia in proverbs (1905)-
"Who can resist God does not fear Satan. " - Russian quotations and proverbs (1838)-
"Fear your father, but honor and love your mother." -Russia in proverbs (1905)-
"In the realm of hope there is no winter." - Russia in proverbs (1905)-
"All suffering will have their rewards." -Russia in proverbs (1905)-
"Good service never stays without reward. " -Russia in proverbs (1905)-
Crew: 5 sailors - 30 trainees
Rigging: Schooner schooner
Launching year: 1991
Overall length: 41.60 m
Flag: France
Home port: Brest- France
The Recouvrance is the ambassador boat and the property of the city of Brest.
Its name comes from the Brest district of the same name. In the parish of Sainte-Catherine (the old name of Recouvrance), there was a statue of a virgin, Notre-Dame de Recouvrance which gave its name to the district. "To find the land: we prayed to Our Lady of Recouvrance to make a good return to our land of departure."
The Recouvrance is a topsail schooner, replica of the "Iris" type schooners, a model designed by the naval architect Hubert in 1817. These military buildings were intended for the transport of urgent envelopes, for the surveillance of merchant traffic and for repression of the slave trade on the coasts of Africa and the Antilles. They carried six carronades of 24 and their crew consisted of 50 to 60 men. (Sic)
"Brittany is a region apart in France." - Ronan Le Coadic / The Breton Identity -
"For Bretons, it only rains on the jerks." -Breton proverb-
"I dreamed of another world where the earth would be round, where the moon would be blonde, and life would be fruitful." - Jean-Louis Aubert / Another World -
"The earth is old but is not crazy." -Breton proverb -
"Summer love is not long-lasting." - Breton proverb -
"Every lazy person says he's lame when he wants to." - Breton proverb -
"And it can be said with confidence that if the Vendée turned brigandage into war, Brittany turned the war into a brigandage." - Honored by Balzac / Les Chouans (1829)-
"It was Brittany and only this province seemed capable of competing with the wild beauty of their islands." - Hervé Jaouen / Farewell to the Islands (1986) -
"My feet were burning in Paris, I could not get used to the grey and sad skies of France, my homeland; What would I have thought of the heavens of Brittany, my homeland, to speak Greek?" - François René de Chateaubriand / Memoirs from beyond the grave (1848) -
Rigging: Three-masted boat
Launching year: 1948
Overall length: 47 m
Flag: France
Home port: Saint-Malo, France
Formerly called the "Kaskelot" (literally "sperm whale" in Danish), the "Français" is a three-masted boat with wooden hull, built in Denmark in 1948, for the Royal Greenland Trading Company, renovated in 1983 for cinema needs.
In 1948, Denmark launched this wooden vessel rigged in ketch and equipped with a double hull, as a supply vessel for Greenland. She then served as a fishing support vessel in the Faroe Islands.
Bought in 1983 by the British Robin Davies, it is transformed into three-masted boat, It begins its cinematographic career.
In 1984, it joined Greenland, and used it as the equivalent of Captain Scott's Terra Nova, then to serve as a replacement for the Fram of Nansen, the sailboat of Treasure Island. In 1995, we see him in the French film Beaumarchais, the insolent, then in the credits of the series La Rivière Espérance, shot off Cherbourg.
today, the Kaskelot is renamed the French. It is available for training young sailors and for cruises, with its 3 passenger cabins. (Sic)
"Good trip, Dear Dumollet, In Saint-Malo, disembark without a shipwreck. -Marc-Antoine-Madeleine Désaugiers/The Departure for Saint-Malo (1809) -
"Neither French nor Breton, Malouin I am" -Gilles Foucqueron-
"Horizon not clear, stay at the bar." - Breton Proverb -
"Who listens too much to the weather forecast, spends his life in the pub." - Breton Proverb -
"The tears that flow are bitter, but more bitter, those that do not flow." - breton Proverb -
"The wind is no faster than the choice of a woman between two men." -Breton Proverb-
"He who walks straight always finds the road quite wide." -Breton Proverb-
"Whether it's black, whether it's white, every goat loves its kid." -Breton Proverb-
"When the seagulls are able to touch the bottom, it's time to tack." -Breton Proverb -
"Better to carry your cross than to drag it." -Breton Proverb -
"Even wrinkled, a good apple does not lose its good smell." -Breton Proverb-
"A boat is no bigger or smaller, depending on whether it is at the bottom or top of the wave." -Breton Proverb-
Crew: 80 sailors
Rigging: Three masted boat
Launch year: 2012
Overall length: 65.7 m
Flag: France
Home port: Rochefort - France
On March 21, 1780, the young major general of La Fayette boarded the Hermione. He leaves to fight alongside the American insurgents who are fighting for their independence. He landed in Boston after 38 days of crossing and joined General Washington to announce the imminent arrival of French reinforcements.
Eighteen months later, the American insurgents, to which La Fayette joined, won decisive victories in Chesapeake bay on the sea, then in Yorktown on land with the support of French troops led by Rochambeau and de Grasse.
Since July 1997, the Hermione-La Fayette Association has embarked on a formidable adventure, the reconstruction of the frigate Hermione, a ship which, in 1780, enabled La Fayette to join the American insurgents fighting for their independence.
To reconstruct the Hermione is to reconstruct an element of our maritime heritage. It means undertaking a major project in the service of the economy and the culture of an entire region.
A technical challenge while respecting authenticity: the ambition of the Hermione-La Fayette Association is to reconstruct as faithfully as possible the original frigate, while taking into account current regulatory constraints, particularly in terms of airworthiness , a ship over 65 m long with three masts and 2,200 m² of sails. A ship whose hull is entirely made of oak.
On April 18, 2015, it celebrated its departure for the United States, which she reached on Bodie Island (North Carolina) on May 31.
After multiple American stops, the first in Yorktown on June 5, it returned to metropolitan France on August 10, 2015 in Brest. On August 29, 2015, it returned to its home port in Rochefort where major period of re-enactment parties were held. organized.
In 2018, a new great journey was made, entitled "Free together from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean". The frigate leaves Rochefort on January 31, 2018 to return there on June 17, 2018 after 11 stopovers.
The crew members come from a plurality of trades that have been trained to learn to be sailors as in the 18th century. (Sic)
On that Monday, June 10, the weather is gloomy, I naively believe that there will be few people but I must already wait 20 minutes to pass the security. And yet it is barely 8:00 a.m. I had forgotten that it was Pentecost and that many people would also come to enjoy the Armada ... I reassured myself by believing that in any case the children would be at school and would not come to increase the number of visitors.
Huge mistake!
Many groups of schoolchildren were present and wanted to enjoy the show just like the grown-ups were, I can't blame them. It was therefore less serene as I hardly approached the Hermione. The visits starting at 10.00 am, I thought that the queue would not be huge when arriving half an hour before opening. The line was already endless and I waited a little over an hour and a half to get on board ...
My conclusion: it was still worth it.
"A civilization begins with myth and ends with doubt." -Emil Michel Cioran / The Fall in Time-
"Happiness is a myth invented by the devil to despair us." -Gustave Flaubert / Letter to Louise Colet -
"Time breaks and disperses reality, what remains becomes myth and legend." - Nuto Revelli / The Missing Marburg -
"Humanity is no longer even a legend, it is a myth." - Romain Gary-
"A journey is a madness that obsesses us, takes us into the myth." - Sylvain Tesson / Read, 1 January 2015 -
"Every state must create a utopia when it has lost touch with the myth." -Ernst Junger / Heliopolis -
"Creation is a myth anyway since no one in the strict sense ever invents anything." - Gérard Bessette / The Semester-
"Immorality is a myth invented by honest people to explain the curious attraction of others." -Oscar Wilde / Formulas and maxims -
"The couple is based on a merger myth. As if we were one. While there are definitely two of us." - Denis Robert / Happiness -
A raised lion, carrying between its claws the shield of France with three lily flowers. The figurehead of the Hermione shows the power and glory of King Louis XVI on the seas.
It is closed-mouthed, because this warship was built in times of peace, while many boats, especially English, sported an open-mouthed lion showing their aggressiveness.
"Don't imitate anything or anyone. A lion that copies a lion becomes a monkey." -Victor Hugo / Heaps of stones -
"The lion on the hunt to kill doesn't roar." - Nigritian proverb -
"The cat is a lion for the mouse." -Albanian proverb -
"Sheep led by a lion are more impressive than lions led by a donkey." -Douglas MacArthur-
"People love flamboyant colors, not those who wear them." - Oxmo Puccino -
"An ideal is often just a flamboyant vision of reality." -Joseph Conrad / Fortune-
"It is a royal pleasure to do good when the ignorant believe you're doing evil" - Alfred Capus / The Thoughts -
"For those who can walk at leisure, even the jungle is a royal road." -Sinhalese proverb -
"How were the barricades created? To fight against the royal cavalry, the people never having a cavalry." -André Malraux / Hope -
"Sculpture, like all arts, is a royal way to know the world and unravel its secrets." -Olivier Delahaye / The Smooth Ventre-
"Loneliness is a royal gift that we reject because in this state we discover ourselves infinitely free and freedom is what we are least ready for." -Jacqueline Kelen/The Spirit of Loneliness (2001)-
"I would have liked to make a golden eagle, or a majestically cool gull, but instead I made a stressed canary entangled in its ups and downs." -Mathias Malzieu/The Mechanics of the Heart (2007)-
"Versailles, a place of royal power, was reputed as a place of reflection. Notably thanks to the ice gallery." -Didier Hallépée/Finance by Quotes: Good minds, cockroaches and dummies are cultivated (2014)-
"As the ship gave the band to port, its wall leaned over us, threatening." -Henri Bosco/A twig of the night (1950)-
"You don't fire a cannon to crush a bug." -Quebec proverb-
"Pencroff sailed from daybreak, and, with a great drop and port, he was able to tidy up the west coast very closely." -Jules Verne/The Mysterious Island-
"Canon. Instrument used to rectify national borders." - Ambrose Bierce / The Devil's Dictionary -
"Having only two feeding anchors, one to starboard, the other to babord, the vessel could not ride in a crow's foot." -Victor Hugo/The Sea Workers (1866)-
"The mouth of a cannon is less dangerous than the mouth of a slanderer." -Arabic proverb-
"Bâbord is the left, starboard is the right, and up to the edge, it's rosé." -Jean-Marie Gourio/Counter-Shorts-
"It's far from the cannon that we find the old soldiers." - Alsatian proverb -
"A kiss makes less noise than a cannon, but the echo lasts longer." -Oliver Wendell Holmes-
"We're all rowing on the same boat." - Zenobios -
"A single slot can sink a boat." -Chinese proverb-
"Parking: Attracts butterflies in front of a boat." - Max Favalelli -
"It's good to swim near the boat." -German proverb -
"The lord is the boat, the ordinary people the water: the water carries the boat or capsizes it." - Chinese proverb -
"Debts are like rats on a boat without a cat... It devours a boat in no time." -Pierre Djada Lacroix / The Third Walk-
"Whoever invented the ship also invented the shipwreck." - Lao-Tseu -
"When the sea is quiet, every boat has a good captain." - Swedish proverb -
"Anyone who can't handle a boat hates the meanderings of the river." -Chinese proverb-
I don't know the first name of this young Hermione sailor. He was too high up to reveal it to me but I thank him for this magnificent entertainment. If I were to have a regret, it would only be this: that is to say nothing. He knew how to leave us speechless, the ecstatic children had become silently admiring and without even realizing it, we were advancing in the queue ... a big thank you.
What was certainly a routine for this young man in his seafaring life was a feat for us.
At first, it was impossible to distinguish whether it was a man or a woman: equality without zoom was the order of the day. It could have been one or the other.
If we look back to past centuries, men had long hair that they collected in catogan. So we are in the world of all possible.
"The life of a man between heaven and earth passes like the leap of a white foal crossing a ditch: a lightning bolt and it's done." -Tchouang-Tseu-
"There are few things as beautiful as the sea on a beautiful day or on a clear night, when she dreams and the moonlight is the sum of her dreams." -Between Heaven and Earth / Jun Kalman Stefsson-
"The sea floods the dreams of those who sleep at sea, their conscience fills with fish and comrades who greet them sadly with fins as hands." -Between Heaven and Earth /Jun Kalman Stefsson-
"There are often more things shipwrecked at the bottom of a soul than at the bottom of the sea." -Victor Hugo-
"The sea is a place of rigour and freedom." -Victor Hugo-
"The man alone will not be able to put the boat into the sea." -Swahili Proverb-
"You have to pray once before going to war, twice before venturing out to sea, three times before getting married." -Spanish proverb-
"Modesty is on merit what shadows are to figures in a painting: it gives it strength and relief." -François De La Rochefoucauld-
"If your face turns on to the sun, the shadows fall behind you." -African proverb-
"Never let the shadows of yesterday obscure the light of tomorrow." -Lume-
"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings." -Friedrich Nietzsche-
"Keep your face in the sun and you won't see the shadows." Helen Keller/ Artist, writer (1880/ 1968)-
When your past is darker than shadows. Your future can only become clearer." -Souleymane Boel-
"Our thoughts are the shadows of our actions." -Francis Picabia-
"The glory of great men is like shadows: it lies down with their sunset." -Henry De Montherlant/ Academician, writer, novelist (1895/1972)-
"Never does the sun see the shadow." -Leonardo da Vinci-
Yes, I finally enter the lair of this magnificent boat steeped in history. I admit that it rocks a bit, the ship is indeed not moored directly to the quay, it was necessary to pass on a platform to access it. Suddenly, we are a little swayed and I confirm that I have absolutely no sea legs, even on a river, the Seine river, however, little agitated that day!
"Unfortunately no one thinks of loving me, and I am so sick, so haunted with tenderness, that I manage to dread the slightest friendly gesture, for fear of getting lost in it and letting my soul and my pride fall into it." -Journal 1918-1919 /Mireille Havet-
"I twisted the neck to fate. I made genetics lie. That's my pride." -Stronger than hate / Tim Guénard-
"Our being is our wealth. And our being is first and foremost national pride, that of our past." -Proud to be French /Max Gallo-
"Pride, it is said, knows limits. Much less the surge of pride." -The country that comes from afar / André Bucher-
To live, you have to put a lot of water in your wine, and know how to swallow a lot of snakes. Too much pride is a death sentence." -Henri-Frédéric Amiel / Work: Diary -
"Sacred love of the homeland, make us bold and proud!. " -La Muette de Portici / Eugene Scribe-
"Slander turns the truth with the truth alike." -French proverb / The comic, satirical and critical dictionary (1718)-
"To education, graft is the symbol. " -French Proverb / The Dictionary of Sentences and Proverbs (1892)-
"Sing to a scatterbrain, and he'll give you a fart. " -French proverbs/ Common proverbs and sayings (1611)-
"I, too, expect from books that I undertake to write that they rescue me, that they take me in their boat, that they lead me to the shore of an ideal elsewhere." - Eric Reinhardt / Love and forests -
"The men jumped into the flood and began to clear the rowing boat out of reach of the rising tide." -Michel Tournier/Friday or the Limbo of the Pacific (1967)-
"In the rowing boat were piled up barrels, intended to renew the ship's sharpness." -Michel Tournier/Friday or the Limbo of the Pacific (1967)-
"Sway every time!" -Jean-Paul Grousset/Calembours- NB:In French,the word "chaloupe" can be wether a "rowing boat" or the verb "sway"
""To these defences if we add torpedoes, torpedo boats, gunboats, what use is left for battleships?" -Rev. Two Worlds, (May 1, 1876/ P. Merruau-
"As the boats in charge of this supply could be worried, it was necessary to post, in support of them, a body of fifteen hundred men...." -Hist. phil. IX, 16 by Raynal-
"The cannon forces the bodies, the school fascinates the souls." -Sheikh Hamidou Kane/The Ambiguous Adventure (1961)-
"Trumpets, cannon shots, doves. Thank you for not releasing the birds before the cannon fire because it would be a carnage." -Gilles Legardinier/Tomorrow I stop! (2011)-
"Cannon: A very attractive woman, who is characterized by her recoil reaction when approached, which has the effect of disarming her admirers"" -Marc Escayrol/Mots et Grumots (2003)- NB: "cannon" another homonym in French. It can be a weapon or a beautiful woman .
"The cracking of a match at night is as safe a way to pull someone from their sleep as a cannon shot and gets the same effect." -Sondor Marai/Foreigners (1930)-
"The misery, loaded with an idea, is the most formidable revolutionary machines. Misery is the cannon, the idea is the bullet." -Victor Hugo/Post-Scriptum of My Life (1901), Heaps of Stones-
"A day will come when a cannon will be shown in museums as is shown today an instrument of torture, astonishing that it could have been!" -Victor Hugo/Peace Congress in Paris, Opening Speech (August 21, 1849)-
"Cordage or metal cable used to hoist and fix a sail, a yardarm, etc."
"Well-said thing is not replied nor repeated. " -French proverbs / Common proverbs and sayings (1611)-
It rings !
"Sound the bells that can still ring Forget your perfect offerings. There's a crack in everything. This is how the light enters." -Anthem /Leonard Cohen-
"The first stars appeared and hung in the air, trembling, like silver bells. All night tinkled." -Alexis zorba /Nikos Kazantzakis-
"It looked like a broken and ill-dressed giant . . . It's Quasimodo, the bell ringer! It's Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame." -Excerpt from Notre-Dame de Paris (1832)/ Victor Hugo-
"Politics gives me the effect of a huge capstan to which a large number of men are harnessed to support a fly." -Georges Clemenceau-
"We worked to set sail; we were not deceived into making sure that the stability was strong in this mooring; we had to do with the capstan unnecessary efforts" -See. t. II of Bougainville-
"The sea was so big that we spent four hours raising our anchor; turnted it around, the daisy broke; the capstan was broken." -See. t. III, in Pougens de Lapérouse-
From the watch station, we could see the "Mir"( Russian ship).
"I was going to sink, sink to the bottom of the sea and dig my grave among the algae, the bones of sailors and shipwrecks." -The kingdom of kensuké /Michael Morpurgo-
"The sailors are fun, even on land it's in the water." -Léo Ferré/Foreigners-
"There is the same percentage of intelligent people among History teachers and Breton fishermen, among writers and typists." -How I Became Stupid/Martin Page-
"And the sailors of Hydra, if they saw you without veils, would think you were the star-haired Dawn." -The contemplations/ Victor Hugo-
"And I'm from another era, a time when boats were made of wood and sailors made of steel. Today, it's the opposite." -Smilla and the Love of snow / Peter Hueg -
"The whale cannot read, she then ignores the rules of priority at sea."
"It's usually at the bottom of the wave that you're full of it."
"Little time, big jib, big weather, little jib! In the sailing navy, you have a sense of average."
"Life at sea has to be painful for them all to try to break crossing records!"
"It is all very well to be the only master after God, but what am I going to do if, one day, God returns? (a captain)"
"I know a radical way to cure seasickness: stranding on a sandbank."
"Except in regattas, the boat is the only activity where failure has never been synonymous with failure."
"The sea is a huge desert where man is never alone, for he feels life shuddering beside him." -Jules Verne-
""The sailor's getting into the water doesn't mean he's giving up alcohol."
"I wonder what the depth of the ocean would be without the sponges" -S. Wright-
"The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist waits for it to turn and the realist sails." -William Arthur Ward-
"Even salty, the water is wet. It's not a lucky bet ." -Almanac of the sailor -breton)
"The wind, the wave, the star ... you'll say, "It's time to get drunk!" -Charles Baudelaire-
"With uggly weather, I stay at the port." -F. Michon-
"By dint of tilting to the sea, the stars have fallen into it." -An unknown poet-
"Spring here, autumn in Australia, would it be impossible for all the sailors of the world to be happy at the same time?"
"He who sees nothing strange has never looked a lobster in the face." -Villiers of Adam Island-
"You have to be really hungry to have a seven-metre hollow." -S. N. Haques-
"As New Year's Eve approaches, let's think of all those bottles of champagne smashed against boats."
"Nothing prohibits pairing for Easter Island on Christmas Day"
"It is not by throwing a Prozac into the sea that one emerges from a depression." -A lone navigator-
"The fish is the camel of the sea. The proof is he is never thirsty!"
"At sea, there is nothing to prevent Tuesday from being fish day"
"The sea rejoices our souls, because it is, like it, infinite and impotent aspiration, constantly broken impulse of falls, eternal and gentle complaint!" -Marcel Proust-
"It is the deepest waters that make the least noise." -Proverb from Guatemala-
"The calm seas have never turn sailors into experienced sailors." -African proverb-
"By dint of contemplating the sea, one day we end up taking it."
"Who comes out of the pub must remain on the dock."
"He who talks too much, is not yet on the water."
"Seagull at the top of the mast, soon to fingle on you."
"Who pees in the wind, wets his shed."
"Woman of a sailor, woman of sorrow."
"Any undonthoned boat is led by the devil to the rocks."
"Estimated position: place on the map where you're sure not to be"
"Who's on the right track usually arrives safely."
"No wind, no wave, no water, no wave either." -Chinese proverb-
"The water is the same on both sides of the boat." -Finnish proverb-
"Only the fool tests the depth of the water with both feet." -African proverb-
"The calm seas have never made experienced sailors." -African proverb-
"In April, you don't discover an island." -Explorer's saying-
"As he could not control either the wind or the woman, the man invented the sails."
"The mother who, on the blade wanders, from the sea sees only the bitter."
"If it's not the sea to drink, why are bottles thrown in it ?"
"Don't think that making circles in the water means making a living at sea."
Rigging: Three-masted schooner
Launching year: 1907
Overall length: 48m
Capacity: 90 passengers
Shipowner: van der rest
Flag: Netherlands
Home port: Amsterdam
Built in 1907 in Bergen in Norway, it is a three-masted schooner with foreskin lighthouse carrying four square sails on fixed yards.
This sailboat, formerly called Njord, was used for herring fishing until 1944, then was abandoned and scrapped.
In 1989, a Dutch shipowner bought it and restored it entirely. He decides to call him Loth Lorien, from the name of the forest of the Elves in "the Lord of the rings". . Today, it is a luxury cruise ship. With its 10 cabins, it is designed for ocean cruises for 34 passengers. It can take up to 90 passengers a day. (Sic)
Crew: 6 sailors
Rigging: Three-masted schooner
Launching year: 1923
Overall length: 44.9 m
Capacity: 74 passengers at sea
Flag: France
Home port: Granville
Wearing the diminutive of Marie-Thérèse Le Borgne, daughter of the owner and godmother of the boat, the Marité was launched on June 24, 1923, in Fécamp. It has thirteen sails and three masts weighing one ton, surmounted by an eleven meter boom mast. He practiced cod fishing on the banks of Newfoundland from 1924 to 1929.
Originally, it was intended for the work of a cod fisherman, but over the years it has become a pleasure boat. Owned by a GIP made up of numerous Norman communities, this ship served as the setting for the Thalassa program for a few years.
Since 2012, the Marité, based in Granville, has been boarding passengers departing from the port of Granville for tourist and participatory navigation in the bay of Granville, in the archipelago of the Chausey islands as well as in Cancale. (Sic)
"Not only are we all on the same boat, but we are all seasick." -Gilbert Keith Chesterton-
"Put the cheerfuls on your side and the boat capsizes. He pours you with them into the vulgar. » -Paul Valery-
"Seagulls are born from handkerchiefs that are waved at the start of the boat." -Ramon Gomez de la Serna-
"The boat is freedom, not just the means to achieve a goal." -Bernard Moitessier-
"An eclectic is a ship that would like to walk with four winds." -Charles Baudelaire-
"Forgetting is a gigantic ocean on which a single ship sails, which is memory." -Amélie Nothomb-
"Passions are the winds that swell the ship's sails; they sometimes overwhelm him, but without them he would not be able to sail. » -Voltaire-
"Love is a small boat that goes away, all joyful, on the wave, sailing to new countries at random from its wandering race." -Charles Trenet-
"Life is your ship, not your home." -Alphonse de Lamartine-
"The preoccupation with death is like a pod from which one can see, from above, the small world." -Jules Fox-
"In the past the slaves on this boat in Ouidah or Porto-Novo knew where they came from but didn't know where they were going. Today, they still do not know where they are going, but they no longer know where they are coming from. » -Romuald Hazoumé-
"When the heart is the guide, even the oldest of the warriors makes the giant bend, but he must load his dugout with a load of patience." -Dominique Sylvain-
"We are ships heavy with ourselves, overflowing with closed things, watching at the bow of our journey all black water almost open and refuse, forever without a bank." -Yves Bonnefoy-
"Men of my race come on boats without wings and without eyes." -Ambrose Bierce-
"The vessel of femininity: curved in bow, majestic stern and peppered in the hatches." -Louise de Vilmorin-
"We are all on the same boat, promised the same shipwreck and there will be no survivors." -Philippe Bouvard-
"Travelling is easy. Just marry a bow. » -Yvon Rivard-
Crew: 114 cadets
Rigging: Three-masted square
Launching year: 1987
Overall length: 109.2m
Shipowner: Maritime Academy of Saint Petersburg
Flag: Russian Federation
The Mir is a three-masted square built in 1987 by the Polish shipyards of Gdansk. Its name means Peace in Russian. It is nicknamed the sprinter of the seas because it can reach a maximum speed of 19.4 knots.
With its 2,720 m² of sails, this training ship is today the property of the Academy of Saint Petersburg in Russia. (Sic)
"A wall is not made with a single stone." -Russian proverb-
"Youth is engraved on stone, old age on ice." -Russian proverb-
"White hands love the work of others." -Russian proverb-
"When you see your fortune increase, you find his house small." -Russian proverb-
"A rich miserly is poorer than a beggar." -Russian proverb-
"Everyone loves the tree that gives him shade." -Russian proverb-
"In the united herd, the wolf is not to be feared." -Russian proverb-
"You don't get used to an old dog to be chained." -Russian proverb-
"A candle costing a kopec made Moscow burn." -Russian proverb-
"No happy holidays without follies." -Russian proverb-
"Strong branches, sharp axes." -Russian proverb-
"The cow for having a long tail doesn't talk about it better. " -Russian proverb-
"A gnarled wood, axe in a row." -The proverbs of the Russian language (1783)-
"Bees without a leader, it's a lost hive." -The proverbs and sayings of Russia (1956)-
"Any monk cannot be abbot." -Russian proverb-
"There would have been no happiness if misfortune had not helped." -Russian proverb-
"Two male bears do not live in the same den. " -Russian proverb-
"Polish a cub, you won't make a lamb out of it." -Russian proverb-
"The good peasant is more often in the field than at home." -Russian proverbs and sayings (1884)-
Copper coin, green-of-grey love. " -Russian proverb-
"Six axe irons hold together, but two cattails separate. " -Russian proverb-
"The lie has rotten legs. " -Russian proverb-
"If you don't have a hundred rubles, have a hundred friends." -Russian proverb-
"You don't hit a man already on the ground. " -Russian proverbs and sayings (1884)-
"The frightened crow fears the bush." -Russian proverb-
"You can't hang everything to a nail. " -Russian proverb-
"When the fox does Lent, lock up your geese!" -Russian proverb-
"When the Tsar has scabs, scabies is not a disease." -Russian proverb-
"Sheep without shepherds do not make a flock." -Russian proverb-
"Don't take the sweeps out of the izba!" -Russian proverb-
"The rotten straw does not hurt the horse which is healthy." -Russian proverb-
"You don't spoil semolina with butter." -Russian proverb-
"It's in the fall that you have to count the brood." -Russian proverb-
"From someone else's pocket, it's easy to pay." -Russian proverb-
"Near bread, there are always crumbs." -Russian proverb-
"Don't beat the mujik with the knout (Russian whip), but beat it with the ruble." -Russian proverb-
Rigging: Three-masted boat
Overall length: 82.10 m
Shipowner: Romanian Naval Academy
Flag: Romania
Home port: Constanza, Romania
The Mircea is a former three-masted boat which, since 1938, has been used as a training sailboat at the Romanian Naval Academy. He trains student officers and non-commissioned officers. He has two masts with square sails and one mizzen mast with auric sails and two booms.
Romania, which made common cause with Russia against Turkey during the war of 1877-1878, took advantage of its victory to recover the coastal province of Dobrogée, between the Danube and the Black Sea. Having thus found the old maritime façade of Wallachia and the port of Constanța, the country recreated its navy and decided to acquire a school sailboat. It will be the Mircea, named after the Romanian prince Mircea the Elder, Prince of Wallachia from 1386 to 1418, who had fought in his time
against the Turks to defend the of Dobrogée and makes maritime trade with the Genoese and the Greeks (in Romanian, many traditional marine terms are of Italian or Greek origin).
Launched in 1882, this brig ordered from the Blackwall shipyard, near London, sailed until the 1930s. Aging, the Romanian navy undertook to replace it with a splendid three-masted boat designed on the same plans as the Gorch Fock I ( German ship left the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg in 1933 and which sailed for decades under the Soviet flag and under the name of Tovarichtch). The three-mast was delivered on January 16, 1939 and armed at Constanța in April. Like his predecessor, he was named Mircea.
The discovery of a medieval fresco depicting Prince Mircea in the Romanian monastery of Cozia allowed the creation of an imposing figurehead in his effigy. The ship barely had time to sail before World War II broke out. He had just returned from a training cruise in the Mediterranean, with his 43 officers (including five trained at the French Naval School), his 40 sailors and his 140 cadets. Engaged alongside the Axis forces, the Antonescu regime's Romania (the “Romanian Pétain”) maintained a few cruises in the Mediterranean (including one to Toulon, before the scuttling) for the training of its officer cadets.
Despite the reversal of Romania, which joined the Allies on August 23, 1944, the Red Army considered itself to be an occupied enemy country and, in August 1944, the Soviet navy requisitioned the ship. He flew the Soviet flag for a few months until the Romanian government obtained his restitution. But from 1946 to 1965, the Mircea was never to sail except near its coasts, in the Black Sea.
In 1966, it underwent a major overhaul in its original site. Its mast and rigging were revised, watertight bulkheads were added, the accommodation completely redone as well as the entire electrical wiring system and the 1,750 m² of its wing. Despite this refurbishment of the ship, the Mircea still had to content itself with coasting in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, ensuring peaceful training for its cadets who could be destined for the military or merchant navy.
It was not until 1975 that he really began to venture offshore, crossing the Atlantic to South and North America before joining Africa, then England and Amsterdam where crossed other tall ships. In 1976, he participated in the Transatlantic on the occasion of the American bicentenary, with 23 officers, 57 sailors and 107 cadets on board. After the Liberation of December 1989, it continued to sail before benefiting from a final refurbishment, the financing of which was ensured by the organization of adventure cruises for Western trainees paying in foreign currency. (Sic)
Crew: 14 sailors
Rigging: Three-masted schooner
Launching year: 1918
Overall length: 47.6 m
Shipowner: Sailing Ship Foundation Rotterdam
Flag: Netherlands
Home port: Rotterdam- Netherlands
The Oosterschelde is a three masted schooner and Dutch topsail which measures 50 meters overall.
It was built in 1918 in the Netherlands and sailed under the German flag. This boat was then a monument to maritime sailing construction. It is designed to be able to carry around a hundred tonnes of goods (bricks, wood, bananas, potatoes, etc.)
In 1921 the boat was sold to Captain Kramer. Under his command the Oosterschelde sails mainly along the European coasts, but also on the African coasts.
In 1988, the boat was purchased with the aim of being restored to its original form. Thanks to in-depth historical research and the collaboration of the last German captain who sailed on board before his transformation, the restoration plans were completed. But the site was going to be very expensive. The Sailling Ship Foundation in Rotterdam supported the cost of the restorations through advertising.
It was in the spring of 1990 that restoration began under the watchful eye of three maritime museums which cooperated on this site. This approach guaranteed the authenticity of the restoration. On August 21, 1992 the boat was officially recognized by Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret.
Today the Oosterschelde sails all around the world, all sails out, with on board passengers who want to live to the rhythm of these old boats during a few stopovers. (Sic)
Équipage:22
Gréement:Quatre-mâts
Année de lancement1937
Longueur hors-tout:67,4m
Pavillon:Portugal
Port d'attache:Aveiro, Portugal
Built in 1937 by the CFU of Lisbon on behalf of a fishing company, this vessel is one of the cod fishermen of the Portuguese cod fleet on the banks of new land in Canada, like the Créoula. It will undergo numerous improvements and modernizations in order to make it more efficient for fishing. In 1993, it is considered obsolete and revisited in 2010 after a long restoration thanks to the Santa Maria Manuela Foundation, made up of numerous public institutions.
The Santa Maria Manuela is today a training ship, registered in the Portuguese national heritage. This sailboat is chartered for cultural tourism and serves as a training ship by taking on 50 trainees in its fitted out cabins.
"We don't discuss the family. When the family unravels, the house falls apart." -Antonio De Oliveira Salazar-
"Literature is the proof that life is not enough." -Fernando Pessoa-
"Beauty is the name of something that does not exist and that I give to things in exchange for the pleasure they give me." -Fernando Pessoa-
"He who refuses to engage in combat is not defeated. But he is defeated morally because he did not fight." -Fernando Pessoa-
"A good word extinguishes more fire than a tub of water." -Portuguese proverb-
"Our misfortunes always come through doors that we open to them." -Portuguese proverb-
"Don't say everything you know; Don't believe everything you hear; Don't do everything you can." -Portuguese proverb-
"Our seas are all moved; only your Mediterranean is quiet." -Madame de Sévigné/ Correspondence (January 26, 1689)-
"You sing according to your talent and you get married according to your luck." -Portuguese proverb-
"There are beings like seas; In some, anxiety is normal; others are a Mediterranean, which only agits for a time and falls back into goodness." -Raymond Radiguet/ The Ball of the Count of Orgel-
"There are many ways to leave the world, but only one to get there." -Portuguese proverb-
"A good captain transforms the Atlantic into the Mediterranean; a bad captain turns the Mediterranean into the Atlantic." Amin Maalouf/ Le périple de Baldassare-
"Who sings, his evil enchants. Who cries, his pain increases." -Portuguese proverb-
"On the shores of the Mediterranean, sleep is not sacred. He is interrupted without regrets, resumed, abandoned at dawn. The nap repairs these imperfections of the night." -Michel Deon/ The balcony of Spetsai-
"To the woman as to the goat, long rope!" -Portuguese proverb-
"How, receiving water from a huge amount of rivers, the Mediterranean does not overflow? - Providence foreseen this catastrophe and put sponges in the sea." -Alphonse Allais/A twisting
"Just because a swallow dies doesn't mean that spring is over" -Portuguese proverb-
"The Mediterranean is a kind of Ganges, where the navels go on pilgrimage." -Frédéric Dard-
"Just because the bird is caged doesn't mean it stops him from singing"" -Portuguese proverb-
"The Mediterranean has a color like mackerel, that is to say changing, we do not always know if it is green or purple, we do not always know if it is blue, because the second after the changing reflection has taken a shade of pink or gray ... " -Vincent Van Gogh/Letters from Vincent to his brother Theo (1872-1890)-
"A man without patience is a lamp without oil" -Portuguese proverb-
"Ah! who didn't feel like a pastis after a sea bath taken in the Mediterranean doesn't know what a morning sea bath in the Mediterranean is like." -The Sailor of Gibraltar (1952)/Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras-
"In life, it's like everything, give time to time and it will solve the problems" -Portuguese proverb-
"I like the old card players, in the evening, on holiday, on the Mediterranean, their distinguished stupidity." -Charles Dantzig/Encyclopedia Capricious at all and nothing (2009)-
"We own the image. Imagination comes from ghosts. Imagination is unique to the people of the North. The image is the mediterranean. Orestes knows where he's going, while Hamlet wanders among the doubts." -Joan Bassegoda, El gran Gaudi/Antoni Gaudi-
"Mother Courage, mother hen, Jewish mother, surrogate mother, good mother! motherland, mother of all arts, Mother Mediterranean, happy birthday!. " -Twitter May 28, 2017 (For Mother's Day) /Bernard Pivot-
"The moon and love, when they do not grow, diminish. " -Portuguese proverb-
"Laziness is the key to distress." -Portuguese proverb-
"Small oversights produce great evils." -Portuguese proverb-
"Seed by seed, the hen fills her belly." -Portuguese proverb-
"Who pays in advance is always poorly served." -Portuguese proverb-
"Who marries does not think; who thinks doesn't get married." -Portuguese proverb-
"The will of the lazy is short-lived." -Portuguese proverb-
"The lesson by examples instructs more than precepts." -Portuguese proverb-
"The law is powerful, but more powerful is necessity." -Portuguese proverb-
"Who steals little is a thief; who steals a lot is a baron." -Portuguese proverb-
"The earth covers the mistakes of the doctors." -Portuguese proverb-
"If God did not forgive the thieves, he would be all alone in Paradise." -Portuguese proverb-
"God gives the nuts, but he doesn't break them." -Portuguese proverb-
"If God closes a door, he immediately opens a window." -Portuguese proverb-
"Work pays the debts." -Portuguese proverb-
"Love passes, pains remain." -Portuguese proverb-
"The best-married woman is the one who has no mother-in-law nor sister-in-law." -Portuguese proverb-
"One woman does all the work; two together do little, but three do nothing." -Portuguese proverb-
From Santa Maria Manuela, I see the Mir.
Illusion ? No, reality .
From Santa Maria Manuela, I see on the other bank the Oosterschelde.
Crew: 65 sailors and 164 cadets
Rigging: Four-masted boat
Launching year: 1921
Hull length: 118 m
Flag: Russian Federation
Home port: Murmansk - Russian Federation
The Sedov or STS Sedov is a 117m four-masted boat. It is the largest Russian sailboat and the largest training ship sailboat in the world. German merchant ship built in 1921, it was given to Russia in 1950 as war damage and became an oceanographic ship, then a training ship
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the proclamation of independence from Latvia in 1991, the Sedov left Riga for Murmansk, its new home port in the Barents Sea, free from freezing in winter.
School vessel of the Murmansk Maritime University, it trains cadets (cadets), civilian sailors and fishery engineers from the naval schools of Kaliningrad and Murmansk with a crew of 65 sailors and 164 cadets during voyages, generally long. 3 months. (Sic)
"The lie is not a steep slope. They are roller coasters that take you away and take your breath away, stop your heart and tie it down your throat." -Jean Cocteau/Cocteau's liar-
"The roller coaster is my life. Life is a violent and mind-blowing game; life is to parachute in and take risks, fall and get up, it's mountaineering, it's wanting to climb to the top of yourself and be dissatisfied and anxious when you can't do it." -Paulo Coelho/Eleven Minutes (2003)-
"There seems to be a mysterious beauty in the Russian landscapes, of which those who knew them keep love and regret to death." -André Maurois/Tourgueniev (1931)-
"Most of the opponents had already emigrated to America at that time, from where they could ponder the unpredictable character of their country by quoting this old adage: Russians never achieve their goals because they always exceed them." -Andrei Makine/The Book of Brief Eternal Loves (2011)-
"It's funny how you get used to everything. Before the Russians arrived, we were shaking. We thought they were monsters. Now, they're just men." -Sarah Cohen-Scali/Max (2015) -
"Russian revolutionaries have forgotten to ponder Napoleon's word: Anarchy always brings back absolute power." -Gustave Le Bon/Yesterday and tomorrow. Brief Thoughts (1918)-
Rigging: Three-masted square
Launch year: 2013
Overall length: 85.8 m
Shipowner: Sultanate of Oman
Flag: Oman
Homeport
Muscat, Oman
Project Orchid's goal was to build a new sailing training vessel for the Royal Navy of Oman to replace the much-loved but aging Shabab Oman. The new ship is three-masted square, with its specific hull in the shape of "V", the ship, like all the clippers, is cut for speed. And 29 sails of 2,630 square meters allow her to reach a speed of 17 knots. It has a crew of at least 90 members, including 54 permanent staff and 36 trainees. There is also accommodation for 4 VIPs.
The ship was built by the Dutch shipyard Damen, the construction of the steel hull being performed at Damen shipyard in Galati on the coast of the Black Sea in Romania, at the mouth of the Danube. Each stage of construction was supervised by a special team of RNO officers who lived in Romania and the Netherlands during the construction of the ship.
The hull of the new ship was launched in November 2013, then towed by the Black Sea, in the Bosphorus and then in the Mediterranean. After defeating the thunderstorms in the Bay of Biscay, the ship arrived in Vlissingen, Holland in January 2014, where construction was completed, including the complex rigging. Sophisticated navigation and communication devices have also been installed.
The first long voyage of the ship was across the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea and the Arabian Sea to reach the Omani capital, Muscat. Shabab Oman II will be present at Armada 2019, carrying the message of the Sultanate of Oman: friendship and peace.
The figurehead of Shabab Oman II pays tribute to the great Omani navigators, such as Ahmad Bin Majid, who once reigned supreme over the Indian Ocean. (Sic)
"It is said, in the East, that the best way to cross a square is to go through three sides of it." -Thomas-Edward Lawrence/The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1921)-
"When the dead rest, let his memory rest." -Arabic proverb -
"Who eats alone strangles himself." -Arabic proverb-
"The Devil only appears to the one who fears him." -Arabic proverb-
"There is no worse misfortune than the one we have." -Arabic proverb-
"To seek justification when one is not guilty is to accuse yourself." -Arabic proverb-
"A great speaker doesn't like to find another one." -Arabic proverb-
"Measure the depth of the water before you dive into it." - Arabic proverb -
"Beauty is half a favor of heaven, intelligence is a gift." -Arabic proverb -
"Who learns without acting, ploughs without sowing." -Arabic proverb-
"The death of a good deed is about talking about it." - Arabic proverb -
"Time will be the master of the one who has no master." -Arabic proverb-
"A handful of bees is better than a bag of flies." -Arabic proverb -
"Who kills the lion eats it, who does not kill it is eaten." -Arabic proverb-
"If you want to be obeyed, give reasonable orders." -Arabic proverb-
"Too much of something is a lack of something." -Arabic proverb -
"Blessed who can still hope to survive in this ocean of errors! You use what you don't know, and what you know, you can't use it." -Faust /Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-
"If you want someone to no longer exist, stop looking at him." -Arabic proverb -
"No sooner have we begun to learn a little than death happens before we have experience. For me, I dare not make any projects I find myself like a drop of water in a huge ocean. -Micromegas/ Voltaire-
"Truth cannot be contained in one dream." -Arabic proverb -
"It had already been two hours since the day progressed, two hours that she had anchored in an ocean of boiling metal." -The Stranger /Albert Camus-
"Where diplomacy has failed, there is still the woman." -Arabic proverb-
"Space is an ocean; The universes are islands. But we need communication between these islands. These communications are made by souls. Death sends spirits from one world to another." -Philosophical Proses/ Victor Hugo -
"The world is on the side of the one who is standing." -Arabic proverb-
"Wash your heart like you wash a garment." -Arabic proverb-
"The world is an ocean of lies that only a breeze of truth can make vibrate." -The good of humanity /Dimitri Semenikhin-
"To every living an end." -Arabic proverb-
"You know, you always imagine that an ocean separates madness from mental health, but they're more like neighboring islands." -Cracked Hearts / Gayle Forman-
"The herd's fault comes from the shepherd." - Arabic proverb-
"Surrogate mother: Ocean with favorable currents." - Marc Escayrol- "Mère" in French is a "mother" and "mer" is "sea" . it sounds the same but writing and meanings are different.
"The rope of lies is short." -Arabic proverb -
"Forget someone: did you think about what it meant? Oblivion is a gigantic ocean on which a single ship sails, which is memory." -Hygiene of the assassin/Amélie Nothomb-
"Without the heist, pottery would no longer exist." -Arabic proverb-
"Who lies for you, will lie against you." -Arabic proverb-
"Proverbs are the lamps of words." -Arabic proverb-
"Throw the lucky one into the river, he'll come out with a fish in his mouth." -Arabic proverb-
"Don't say your sorrows to others; the hawk and the vulture fall on the wounded man who moans." - Arabic proverb-
"Fatigue is the ruin of the body and anxiety the sickle of the soul." -Arabic proverb-
Rigging: Three-masted square
Launching year: 1999
Overall length: 34.5 m
Flag: Russian Federation
Home port: St Petersburg
This boat is the replica of the Russian frigate Shtandat built in 1703. The historic frigate became the flagship of a Russian fleet commanded by Tsar Pierre Le Grand who wished to be inspired by the Dutch and English models.
The reconstruction of this identical frigate is carried by a historian commissioned by the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. It is on the site of an old shipyard on the banks of the Neva that the replica of the Shtandart was made in 5 years, from 1994 to 1999. This replica was built by the Maritime Education Center of Saint- Petersburg as part of the Shtandart Project. This project consists of training young Russians in wooden shipbuilding and traditional sailing. This initiative was sponsored by the Russian and British governments, and also by the financial contribution of foreign donors. The Ship is owned by the Shtandart Project in Saint Petersburg, a Russian non-profit association offering training cruises.
Today, it is a training ship as well as a museum boat. (Sic)
"Don't wake up the sleeping lion." -Philip Sidney -
"By cunning, we can take a lion. By force, not even a cricket." -French proverb-
"The sky is a suspended ocean. From time to time, it melts on us, washing the hills and houses with seawater." -Frédéric Beigbeder-
"You are the moon that lights up my ocean, the star that guides my path. You're the dogwood in the spring, and the wind blowing at night. You are the firefly in the summer and the flower that blooms in the heart of winter." -The Scars of the Past / Annie Garrett -
"A woman's heart is an ocean of secrets." -Titanic [ quotes from cult films ] / Movie replicas-
"To face the vastness of the oceans is to turn our backs on the earth's vicissitudes." -An uncle named Hergé / Georges Junior Rémi -
"Teach me happiness in the flame of days. Ocean languor to the shores of love. Teach me the rubies that night evaporates. And the burgeoning dress of the rose that gilds it." -Declarations of love / Patrick Huet-
"In my veins it is not blood flowing, it is water, the bitter water of the stormy oceans...." -Outlines (1939)/Jean Venturini-
"I understood how life belongs to death, how it is only a brief parenthesis. A reprieve in an ocean of nothingness." -Miserere /Jean-Christophe Grangé -
"When you look at your past life, you think you see a ship that has disappeared on a deserted sea." -Chateaubriand-
You can see "El Galeon" behind the Shtandart
"The sea is a space of rigour and freedom." -Victor Hugo-
"The sea, complicated by the wind, is a compose of forces. A ship is a man of machinery. The forces are infinite machines, the machines of limited forces. It is between these two organisms, one inexhaustible, the other intelligent, that this fight called navigation begins. » -Victor Hugo-
"There are often more castaways at the bottom of a soul than at the bottom of the sea" -Victor Hugo-
"Travelling means being born and dying at every moment." -Victor Hugo-
"Happiness is like a frail sailboat in the open sea: it only takes a storm to destroy it." -Lena Allen-Shore-
"To run beyond the seas is to change climate, but not to change your heart." -Horace-
"In the navy you don't do much, but you do it early" -Jacques Rouxel-
"The sailor is distinguished by his ability to practice napping at any time, in all places, in all weathers. For what is taken is no longer to be taken." -Hervé Hamon-
"Not only are we all on the same boat, but we are all seasick." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton-
"Port. Where boats are safe from storms and exposed to customs fury" -Ambroise Bierce-
"The oaths of love are like the wishes of the sailors, we forget them after the storm" -John Webster-
"The sea teaches sailors dreams that ports murder" -Bernard Giraudeau-
"The world could have been as simple as the sky and the sea" -André Malraux-
"Since you can't change the direction of the wind, you have to learn how to steer the sails." -James Dean-
"Free man, always you will cherish the sea" -Charles Beaudelaire-
Crew: 110 people
Rigging: Frigate
Overall length: 105
Construction site:
Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding, Flushing (Netherlands)
Flag: Morocco
The frigate Tarik Ben Ziyad is a multi-mission building, equipped with ultra modern technologies. SIGMA type, it measures 105 meters in length by 13 meters in width. With a displacement of 2,600 tonnes laden, this building can accommodate up to 110 people. The propulsion, provided by two diesel engines, makes it possible to reach a speed of 26 knots and to cross 4,000 nautical miles at 18 knots.
Built by the Dutch group "Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding" in Vlissingen (Netherlands), the frigate is also able to face the most difficult weather conditions.
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step." -Lao Tseu-
"If you want to know the age of the world, look at the surface of the sea in the storm." -Joseph Conrad-
"If the tankers were carrying seawater, we wouldn't care if they were shipwrecked." -Philippe Geluck-
"It is by sea that all geography should begin." -Jules Michelet-
"On the sea, no one takes you into guardianship. It's the last space in the world where you're responsible. » -Paul Guimard-
"The most beautiful thing about navigation is landing." -Benoîte Groult-
"Navigators are the opposite of camemberts: those that don't sink are the best." -Olivier de Kersauzon-
"At sea, when you sleep, you close your eyes, but you keep your ears open." -Olivier de Kersauzon-
"On the ground, even in the darkest moments, life always starts again the next day. At sea, during a storm, one experiences a sense of trap for eternity." -Olivier De Kersauson-
"The vocation is a torrent that cannot be repressed, blocked or coerced. It will always open a passage to the ocean. » -Henrik Ibsen-
"Don't blame the sea on your second shipwreck" -Publius Syrus-
"To give up in a competition on the pretext that you cannot finish first is incompatible with the spirit of sport." -Eric Tabarly-
"It makes it modest to travel. You can see what a small place we have in the world. » -Gustave Flaubert-
"The journey is a series of irreparable disappearances" -Paul Nizan-
"If you want to go out to sea, without any risk of capsizing, then don't buy a boat: buy an island!" -Marcel Pagnol-
"To travel happily, travel light." -Saint Exupéry-
"The islands are small continents shorterned." -Bernardin de Saint-Pierre-
"Eternity is the sea mixed with the sun" -Arthur Rimbaud-
Rigging: Three-masted boat
Launching year: 2000
Overall length: 65m
Flag: United Kingdom
Home port: Southampton
Built at Merlin Quay in Southampton, England and launched in 2000, the Tenacious is one of the largest sailing wooden sailing ships.
It was entirely designed to accommodate passengers with disabilities, the blind or the blind, or even in a wheelchair. The door plates are inscribed in Braille, the cabins have been specially fitted out, the deck has wheelchair stowage allowing participation in the maneuvers.
With the Lord Nelson, it is one of the only ships in the world designed to allow disabled people to sail in a crew with able-bodied people. (Sic)
"When a boat is in the storm and there are rocks nearby, it is unusual for it to be run by a committee." -Jean-Paul Getty-
"To know how to pray, you must have been a sailor" -B.Larsson-
"You have to be rowing before holding the rudder, having kept the bow and observed the winds before steering the ship yourself" -Aristophanes-
Crew: 6 sailors, 34 passengers
Rigging: Three-masted boat
Launching year: 1980
Flag: Netherlands
Home port: Arlongen
Her hull is that of a Dutch fishing boat, the Reliquinda, built in 1980 near Amsterdam. It is a former side fishing trawler. In August 1984, it sank steeply, hitting a wreck of the Second World War.
In 1995, two friends, Arnold Hylkema and Henk Stallinga decided to transform this old fishing boat, by drawing the boat of their dream by using only the hull. They transform it into a luxury tall ship. They are still the owners.
The ship then rigged in three-masted schooner to experience a new launch under the Dutch flag with Harlingen as its home port.
This eighteen-cabin sailboat travels a lot with the 34 passengers it can accommodate in addition to its crew. It can take up to 120 passengers a day. (Sic)
"Waves are little compared to the ocean." - Claude Lelouch / Route of a very spoiled child (2000)-
"Nature is only a smile when the powerful blooms burst under the sun; when the sea sings its monotonous complaint while taking place on the blond sands: everything is joy, light and perfume." -Maxime Du Camp / The Lost Forces (1867)-
"There is nothing more terrible than the sea to tame a man." -Homer /The Odyssey (VIII IXth century BC)-
"To be at sea is to be in front of the enemy: a ship that makes a crossing is an army that fights a battle." - Victor Hugo / Ninety-three (1874)-
"The sea is the path of the daring." -Alcuin/ The maxims and moral thoughts (9th century AD) -
"Making good looks bad is the habit of sea commanders." - Victor Hugo / Ninety-three (1874)-
"A grain of sand stops the sea that would not stop a torrent." -Joseph Roux/ Thoughts, notes and reflections (1866)-
"The sea joins the regions it separates." -Alexander Pope / Windsor forest (1713)-
"You must have sailed yourself in rough seas to know how to consult the compass and handle the rudder." -Françoise d'Aubigné /The memoirs and letters of Madame de Maintenon (1719)-
"I suspect the sea hates hicks who, after having fondled it for a few moments and believing themselves entitled to treat her like an easy girl, affirm: "She is good!" -Philippe Bouvard / My last thoughts are for you (2017)-
"The open sea is the scene of shipwrecks." - Properce / Book III, Elegy 3 (c. 23 BC) -
"The most advanced peoples are always the ones who sail the most. The force that the sea demands of the sailor quickly makes him a man, and the change of country and people frees his spirit from the foolishness of a bell tower." -Ralph Waldo Emerson / Society and Loneliness (1870)-
"By dipping his hand into the sea one touches all the shores." -Pascal Quignard / Sordidissimes (2005)-
"Some love in love the hustle and bustle as they love at sea the storm." -André Maurois /An Art of Living (1939)-
"Eternity is the sea mixed with the sun." -Arthur Rimbaud /A Season in Hell (1873)-
"Vite et bien never go together." -Italian Proverb-
"The best: laugh together at the same things." -Gloria Vanderbilt-
"We drink together, but we suffer alone." - Christian Authier / Such a sweet fury-
"Meeting is a start; staying together is progress; working together is success." -Henry Ford-
"Every individual collaborates with the entire cosmos." -Friedrich Nietzsche-
"Married: not to be alone nor together." -Natalie Clifford Barney-
"It relieves the heart to sink all together." -Publius Syrus / Sentences-
"Love is about being stupid together." -Paul Valéry / The Evening with Mr. Teste-
"Hope, Disappointment: two enemies who get along very well together." -Eugene Vivier / Following a few paragraphs-
The creation support of Jean-Baptiste Sauvage was this 28 meter boat. He painted his work on the hull choosing to use camouflage patterns, called "razzle dazzle". Patterns used a lot by artists in the 1910s.
I officially thank the berths on the quays of Rouen which allowed me to sit down when my legs no longer followed, they were also very useful for taking photos of the figureheads .... and believe me, the places were expensive!
Not just to moor a ship...
A break ...
Where's the boat?! ...
One of the two girls parading on the quays was Miss Normandie .... which one? I can not say because 1. I am not watching this competition and 2. the two young girls could easily claim the title. On the other hand, I could deduce that the Miss Normandy is the one who carries a beautiful boat on her head!
In any case, they were very successful and were the subject of all attention. They were really pretty.
Notice the magnificent ship on the head of the girl on the right.
Elegance.
Two pretty "Misses."
Extraordinary. I can't think of any other word to describe this surprising mime. Absolutely static, he moved his eyes from time to time to confirm that he was alive when people doubted his real existence.
And it was only when someone put a coin in his satchel that he moved like an automaton, which had the effect of making a little girl jump backwards in a burst of laughter ... I admit that we all had the same reaction as the little one. He was simply extraordinary.
"Comedy is about mimicking optimism." - Robin Williams-
""Spending an evening one-on-one with a mime makes you relatively thirsty." -Gaetan Faucer-
"You sing like the mime Marceau, but with the sound." -André Manoukian-
"Before you say anything, you have to make sure that silence is not more important." -Marcel Marceau-
"Women are a surface that mimics depth." -Friedrich Nietzsche-
It was early that the painters landed in front of the ships, when there were not too many people yet. I found it soothing to watch them. This one painted the Belem which had been moored since the previous evening.
"The painter must strive to be universal." - Léonard de Vinci -
"You have to guess the painter to understand the image." -Friedrich Nietzsche / Schopenhauer -
Actor - also of the Armada, I would have liked to see him rise on the day of the Parade (departure of the ships) but I would have found it difficult to find myself among the thousands of visitors who would congregate to attend this departure scene which must have been majestic. It is a regret but I assume my little jealousy for these people who will have been able to admire the ships with all sails out and the Mexican sailors perched on the masts. What a beautiful sight it must have been!
"Men build too many walls and not enough bridges." - Isaac Newton-
"The best teachers are those who know how to turn into bridges, and who invite their students to cross them." -Nikos Kazantzakis -
"He who cannot forgive others cuts himself off from the bridges he will have to cross, for every man feels the need to be forgiven." -Thomas Fuller -
"On the euro banknotes, on one side there is a door, on the other, a bridge. It means if you don't walk through the door, all you have to do is throw yourself off the bridge." -Anne Roumanoff / The Euro-
"Unhappiness can be a bridge to happiness." - Japanese proverb-
"The spirit of the castle is the drawbridge." - René Char-
"A fable is a bridge that leads to the truth." -Antoine-Isaac Sylvestre de Sacy / Chrestomathie Arabic -
"Students, don't show up for the bac anymore: take the Tancarville Bridge!" -Francis Blanche- "Bac" in French : 1.Ferry to cross from one bank to another 2. High school diploma
"In painting, it establishes itself as a mysterious bridge between the souls of the characters and that of the viewer." -Eugene Delacroix / Journal -
The Metropolis wore its colors high during the Armada. Everything was done to make it a party, even if the weather was not always there. As for the architecture of the Metropolis, it is questionable (the millions invested too) but I must admit one thing: when the sun plays with the colorful facade, it's pretty pretty.
"Tastes and colors, we don't argue." - Roman proverb -
"Colours are actions of light..." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / Color Theory -
"Perfumes, colors and sounds respond to each other." -Charles Baudelaire / Correspondences -
"And how do you paint with colorless words?" - Joseph Marmette / The Knight of Mornac -
"Reflection is for colors what echo is for sounds." -Joseph Joubert / Notebooks-
"Men dye the world in the colours of their successive passions." -Gilbert Choquette / The Failure-
"We use colors, but we paint with feeling." -Jean Chardin-
"People love flamboyant colors, not those who wear them." - Oxmo Puccino -
"There is no drama to which life cannot give the colors of hope." -Claude Lelouch / Route of a very spoiled child -
Are you ok ducky ?!
They flutter around ...
"A flag that is hidden in one's pocket is not a flag, it is a handkerchief." -Emile de Girardin -
"If you want to make a symbolic gesture, you must not burn the flag, but wash it." -Norman Thomas-
"It is not the fear of madness that will force us to leave the flag of imagination at half-mast." - André Breton / First Manifesto of Surrealism-
"There are only two things to do with a flag: either brandish it at arm's length or hold it passionately against your heart." - Paul Claudel / Positions and proposals -
"Most people prefer to slip their skin under the sheets rather than risk it under the flags." -Raymond Devos-
"The flags of our two countries contain the same colors. Do everything in your power to make the resemblance stop there." -Michael Moore / Get me that out of the way
"I am the color of those who are persecuted Without loving, without hating different flags, Wherever man suffers he sees me in his ranks. The more a human race is defeated and wilted, The more sacred it is to me and becomes my homeland." -Alphonse de Lamartine/Toussaint Louverture (1850)-
"O borders, O borders, your nostalgia As the canals go to the foreign land France here ends, Belgium is born. A sky doesn't change where the flags change." -Louis Aragon/Le Crève-Coeur (1941), Spring-
"All the flags have been so stained with blood that it's time to have none, at all." -Gustave Flaubert to George Sand (July 5, 1869)-
On Monday morning June 10, the Sea Rescuers, present on the Armada, paid a moving tribute to the three volunteer rescuers who died the previous Friday in Les Sables d'Olonne. The fog horns of ships and speedboats also participated in this vibrant tribute. Pavilions from all countries united in one voice. That of sea lovers, those of these sailors who are as passionate as they are respectful of its power. A deeply shared emotion.
"Hope is to the freedom fighter what the lifeline is to the swimmer: the guarantee that he will not drown, that he will remain safe from danger." -Letter from Nelson Mandela to Winnie on August 1, 1970 -
"The greatness of my civilization is that a hundred miners must risk their lives for the rescue of a single buried miner. They save Manhood." -War pilot / Saint-Exupéry-
Let us never forget that these men can risk their lives for one man and this, on a voluntary basis. Respect.
Port police, military police, national police, they were all present on the Seine and .... on the quays. I was delighted, even if everyone knows that a madman can do anything, anywhere. So, better not to think about it and enjoy the moment. And to see them is rather pleasant: the uniform always has a small effect on the female gender.
"You'll see, desire quickly creates necessity and seeks some security in the routine." -Anne Bernard/Love without passport-
"I urge everyone to join this approach and, more generally, to spare no effort to enable all men and women to age in safety and dignity." -Kofi Annan/World Assembly on Aging (27 September 2001)-
"Certainly, there are somewhat more demanding levels in the security trades. And security is to safety what "The laughing cow" is to cheese." -Armand Patrick Gbaka-Brédé , says Gauz/Standing-paid-
"It is absolutely essential, for the peace and security of humanity, that we do not disturb certain dark and dead nooks, some soundless depths of the Earth, lest the sleeping monsters awaken to a new life." -Howard Phillips Lovecraft/The Hallucinated Mountains (1931)-
"It was to pass back to my faculties the invisible irons of a uniform and too quiet life, of an existence of which I was unable to appreciate even the privileges, such as security and ease." -Charlotte Bronte/Jane Eyre (1847)-
"The boat is safer when it is in the port, but that's not why the boats were built." -Paulo Coelho/The Pilgrim of Compostela (1996)-
Small and large boats for people who wanted to visit the Armada while sailing on the Seine.
"Geography. Where would the Seine flow if it took its source in the Pyrenees?" -Jean Tardieu / A Word for Another-
"Pass the days and pass the weeks Neither time passed Nor love returns Under the Mirabeau Bridge flows the Seine"-Guillaume Apollinaire De Guillaume Apollinaire / The Mirabeau Bridge-
"The Seine carried lumpy patches that stopped at the piers of the bridges and dissolved into firmaments." -Robert Desnos/Freedom or Love (1927)-
"The sky was white on the Seine sitting between its cranes, as between his toys a sad child." -Françoise Sagan/A Certain Smile (1956)-
"I passed by the Banks of the Seine An ancient book under the arm The river is the same as my sorrow It flows and does not dry up When the week ends, then. -Guillaume Apollinaire/Alcohols (1913), Marie-
"Who has not practiced the left bank of the Seine, between Rue Saint-Jacques and Rue des Saints-Pères, knows nothing about human life!" -Honored by Balzac/Father Goriot (1835)-
"What a winter ! I saw the Seine in Rouen completely taken; this is only the third time in my long career that I have enjoyed this hyper-boroean show." -Gustave Flaubert/Correspondence to Jules Duplan-
"Roll, roll your indolent flow, dreary Seine." -Paul Verlaine/Saturnian Poems (1866), Parisian Nocturne-
"He led me to the banks of the Seine, to Swan Island, which rose in the middle of the river like a ship of foliage." -Anatole France/The Roast of Queen Pedauque (1892)-
what this barge was for, it went back and forth between the two banks as it approached the ships. I searched but remained unanswered ...
"You have to have the courage in life to leave your houseboat, otherwise you sail along the water making a movie and you die without having gone anywhere but the cinema." -René Fallet/Baroque Love (1971)-
"On the Saint-Martin slides canal, Smooth and painted like a toy, A mahogany barge, With its sliding shutters." -Paul-Jean Toulet/Les Contrerimes (1979)-
"My father is a sailor In this houseboat My mother says peace nests In that silly husband." -Boby Lapointe/My Father and his glasses (1971)-
"Siesta... Handkerchief... Barge... what is all these words? I don't stand in their way." -Raymond Queneau/The Blue Flowers (1965)-
"We loved exotic music, the banks of the Seine, barges and walkers, the dubiously silly little caboulots, the desert of the nights." -Simone de Beauvoir/The Force of Age (1960)-
While everything was happening on the water, I spent a lot of time with my head in the air to admire this tangle of masts, nets and flags which seemed to me to be in disorder but certainly very orderly for the sailors. I found all this very beautiful in the middle of this sky especially when the rays of the sun were playing between them, with them. A pretty sight ... to me.
"The outer sun craves the inner sun." -Jakob Boehme-
"A sun does not eclipse a sun. A sun is only eclipsed by moons." -Victor Hugo / Facts and Beliefs-
"The sun is shining for everyone." - French proverb-
"The Earth has only one Sun." -African proverb-
"The sun, the gold of the poor." -Natalie Clifford Barney -
"The sun is new every day." - Heraclitus of Ephesus -
"Fog is the coquettishness of the sun." -Xavier Forneret / Another year of untitled-
"Never does the sun see the shadow." - Léonard de Vinci -
"The moon is the dream of the sun." - Paul Klee -
"Truth is the sun of intelligence." -Vauvenargues / Miscellaneous Thoughts -
"Fall. The postscript of the sun." -Pierre Veron / The Carnival of the Dictionary-
"Wine is water filled with sunshine." - Galilée -
"The setting sun is a genius artist." -Dominique Rolin / Journal in love -
"When the sun rises, it rises for all." -Portuguese proverb -
"Who loves a woman is cousin of the sun." -Turkish proverb -
"He commands the sun to animate nature." -Jean Racine / Athalie-
"The sun is willing to go through small windows." -Frederik van Eeden / Le Petit Jean -
June 6, 2019. First day of the Armada. Even before the official opening at 10.00 am, I want to go there and am already enthusiastic when I see the boats (especially the masts) in the distance, beyond the bridges that cross the Seine. A simple moment which makes me happy.
"My mind and soul fell languid like the sails of a ship that suddenly lacked the wind that swelled them." -Jean-François Marmontel/Memories-
"A ship had just set all sails out to get away from this waters." -Isidore Ducasse, known as Count of Lautréamont/The Songs of Maldoror (1869)-
"If you have the wind in your sails, take advantage of it to discover the world; If the wind is absent, take the opportunity to revive your ship." -Daniel Desbiens/Maximes d'Hui-
"Passions are the winds that swell the ship's sails; they sometimes overwhelm him, but without them he would not be able to sail. " -Voltaire-
"The man steers his sail, presses the rudder, advancing against the wind by the very force of the wind." -Alain-
"Since you can't change the direction of the wind, you have to learn to steer the sails." -James Dean-
To sail around the world is to see up close the accuracy of the scenery on the Earth's crust and, like a cat, to walk in balance on all the gutters of the world. " -Olivier de Kersauson-
"It is the sailboats that have discovered the world, and they carry in their wake many legends. " -Olivier de Kersauson-
The love that ships inspire differs profoundly from that which men feel for any other handywork - the love they bear at their homes, for example - in that it is not tainted by the pride of possession. " -Joseph Conrad-
