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MARTOLODED PLOUGERNE
Grouping of owners of traditional boats of Plouguerneau (Finistere northern, Brittany) (traduction informatique à prendre sous toute réserve)
PENKALET, Cormoran with winks of bay of Morlaix(1939)
HISTORY
1) construction .JPG)
Penkalet left into 1939 building sites ELIES Carantec on plans Henri Dervin for the account Loïc Merrer de Morlaix, which to show originality with respect to the carantecois had convinced Louis Elies to build it with clins.Ce choice proved to be judicious bus thereafter the LOÏC (it was the 1° name of the boat) gained the majority of the regattas in which it took part, with large the injury of the carantecois.
2) period morlaisienne
From 1945 with 196O Loïc attends all the water levels of bay of Morlaix, always fears in regattas for its swiftness.
In 1960, Loïc Merrer sells its Loïc to Henri BUSNEL of St Martin of the Fields which continues to make it sail on all the water levels of bay of Morlaix.
In front of the number impressing of its trophies, it is bought in 1975, by Michel Moal, owner of the building site of Karena with Roscoff which draws the coasts from them to launch a series of plastic cormorants which will reach the job number of 159 specimens.
Then, the drawn plans, Michel Moal gives up his boat on dead-man with Locquénolé.Et by a cold night of the winter 1980, Loïc is drossé at the Considéré coast as lost,il is drawn with dryness and abandoned in a stray field with proximité.L' will remain 8 years there, until 1988.
3) Rebirth plouguernéenne
In 1988, Jean Kérouanton de Ménez Perros in Plouguerneau, recovers what remains wreck and starts restauration.Devant it the extent of work, it gives up it and for purposes completion:cela entrusts it to me will take 5 years with the assistance, the support and the advised and essential councils of Jean Louis Got.
The restoration could be regarded as truly completed by 1993.Devant its stubbornness not to be wanted to die I it débaptise and the quite Breton name of PENKALET gives him (obstinate, head lasts).
4) Design features:.jpg)
Penkalet is thus the only cormorant ever built with winks.
- bordered in mahogany tree
- frames in bent acacia
- riveted copper
- of origin, there remains only the hull and the quille.Tous the espars nouveaux:mat, bome, horn, benches etc... are in pine of Oregon
- length H.T.:5,20 m
-beam maxi:1,89 m
- gross tonnage: 1,56 barrels
- draught:0,80 m
- large veil (Dz Hackney carriage) 16 m2
Penkalet being a wreck, was regarded for this reason as pertaining to the businesses maritimes.Pour obtaining an act of Francization the only average one was to make establish a certificate of gauge by the service of the gauge of Lorient, customs which came to 4 Lorient to measure Penkalet,au Corréjou, as if it acted of a chalutier.(Ils continued besides on Moguériec).15 days later, I had my certificate of gauge which acts as document of title.
5)Types of navigation
Penkalet not being a boat of "work" like are the goémoniers, moreover having suffered much from its shipwreck and of its abandonment with Locquénolé, 67 years old, heavy has passed which left some difficult traces with dissimuler.Malgré all the consulted experts and not of least, it does what is called moderately "a little water".
This state of the facts does not prevent it from taking part in all the nautical gatherings as long as health,un fragile moment,de its owner the permet:BREST 96, Brest 2000, Brest and Douarnenez 2004, Ploumanac' H 2006 without forgetting all the good occasions to find itself on water with other traditional old men gréements or boats Et since the natural setting-up of MARTOLODED PLOUGERNE......
The crew is primarily composed of my daughter ANNE when it is there, and permanently of my Labrador LEWIS.
PS: only engine H.B "Seagull" is sometimes usedon Penkalet |
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