Here under are some slides shows : To open, just click on the title of the PICASA
slides show.
They open in a new separated window so you will have to close it yourself to get back.
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* BRITTANY Knots 2005 September
Photographies of flotsam ( or rather jetsam as this is man made drifting objects and
not natural ones ) found on the beaches of Douarnenez Bay and of mooring lines
in the commercial fishermen's harbour of Douarnenez.
* PARIS RIVER SEINE MOORINGS 2006 January
Moorings of barges along River Seine In Paris ( France ).
* BRITTANY Boats and Harbours 2006 April
Living and dying boats .
Knots of mooring lines in Douarnenez and in Camaret ( Presqu'Ile de Crozon )
* BRITTANY Floatsam Knots 2006 April
Just a little bit of flotsam (jetsam) with two interesting bits : spliced eye, in particular
a "handle".
One splice eye
'handle' eye
* BRITTANY MUSEUM HARBOUR in DOUARNENEZ
Harbour at the mouth of the river is now an open air museum with an old Norwegian
trader, an old lobster boat, a lighthouse boat, a Thames Barge, and some others.
* KNOTS IN THE FIELDS AND MEADOWS - BURGUNDY August 2006
Will be a change from Brittany for you to go to Burgundy and look at knots I found
here and there.
* BRITTANY MOORING KNOT RECONSTRUCTED.
'Mooring ring' is a bronze Baoulé man bracelet from where I was born.
Rope is a piece of flotsam found on a beach in Baie de Douarnenez.
This is reconstructed using a sketch . I had not my digital camera with me
at the time.
* BRITTANY SEPTEMBER 2006 - SOUTH COAST
Lorient - Le Pouldu - Doelan - Concarneau
Toggled knots in Doelan.
This is the only place I have seen those till now.
Must be a local habit or one or two individuals with the same training ( family? work?...)
Tucked tails as a securing trick.
Casiers or pots in Le Pouldu. With some 'tucked' tail to make them secure, some
were found in Concarneau too those in the last four pictures.
Some knots not from the last rain.
Concarneau Musée de la Pêche- Duhamel Du Monceau Traité Général des Pesches.
This is awfully 'heavy'.
Only for really interested persons.
112 photographies from bad to acceptable (no flash possible and time was short), this is documentation not art though the book would have been worth 'art'.
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I do hope, that Igkt members will have the luck to get a meeting for the whole of Western Europe
set in Concarneau. Just to get a chance to see this town and this Musée.
As easy if not easier to get there than to get to Douarnenez ( which has been my favorite haunt
for at least a third of a century!)
There is the famed KEROMAN submarine base built by the Germans in WWII with a surprisingly
modern installation for 'escaping from a submarine training' in Lorient not very far off, not to mention
that it was a very near thing that the "wolves packs" won the war for Germany and it cost many
lives to the Merchant Navy sailors who were absolutely heroics above the call of duty, I will not
speak about Naval types, after all it was their station in life, but Merchant seamen of all ranks
were really 'out of the ordinary'; La Pointe du Raz ( Continental Europe land's End ) and Le Phare
d'Eckmull ( Eckmull lighthouse).
People are quite pleasant in Concarneau and 'hostellerie' can be quite affordable either in 'chain hotels'
or "chez l'habitant' ( with the inhabitants in beds and breakfast and such)
Le Musée de la Pêche de la Ville Close de Concarneau
PLEASE DO NOT USE ANY OF THESE PHOTOGRAPHIES IN ANY FORM OF
PUBLICATION.
If you need what they represent please contact Le Musée de la Pêche de Concarneau for 'official' pictures of much better quality and pay for them.
Old sailmaker sewing machine in Le musée de la pêche de Concarneau
Rope serving on wire rope on the trawler kept at Le Musée. You can visit it at your leisure.
IFREMER vessel.
A scientific sampling trawl with neat knotting belonging to "Pourquoi pas ?"
( Why not ? - Not Commandant Charcot's alas - fond memory to me as I did it as
ship model in my youth) the IFREMER research ship - Institut Français de Recherche
pour l'Exploitation de la MER - (one of the two vessels jointly exploited, the other is manned by La Marine Nationale for the SHOM (Servive Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine)
Marine Nationale Française. Some knots and cordages
Noeud de de raban de cul de chalut Concarneau. This is the object of one topic in the
"Investigations" pages
Chaluts / Trawls.
Buoy chain and rope.
Miscellany of knots and boats - For ease in accessing the Picasa slideshow I have made them about 30 to 50 pictures worth.
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Miscellanies_3 Miscellanies_4
Miscelllanies_5 Miscellanies_6
Miscellanies_7 Miscellanies_8
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Overall rewriting in August 2006 . Copyright renewed. 2007-2014 -(each year of existence)
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