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VOILES DE LOIRE

(Association loi 1901)

www.voilesdeloire.org

Contact Gilles Crespin: gilles.c.crespin@orange.fr

THE LOIRE - OUR HERITAGE

TRADITIONAL RIVER CRAFT

AND SEAMANSHIP,

CRAFTSMANSHIP AND SOME

CULTURAL ASPECTS

THE CRAFT

The Craft

On the River Loire….

The Craft

Festival on the River Loire

The Craft

TOUEE CABANEE 17th – 20th century

for transport of valuable freight or vertical net fishing (replica 1992) "La Saponaria"

The Craft

A CHER RIVER FERRY - replica built in 2000

based on 1852 official plans and drawings

"La Belle Passante"

The Craft

TOUE de TRANSPORT 16th-19th

(replica 1999) "La Madeleine"

The Craft

TOUE for sand collection 16th-19th Century

(replica build 2000) "La Pibole"

The Craft

FUTREAU 15th-19th century

Small duty boat

The Craft

Horse Ferry 17th – 20th Century

Replica 2006 - "Chêne Rossignol"

The Craft

Val de Vienne

The Craft

La Fillonerie

The Craft

RIVER LOIRE STEAMSHIP 19th Cent.

replica 2007 possible heritage "L'Inexplosible"

The Craft

SCUTE - medieval cargo ship without engine 15th Cent.

replica 2009 - "Dame Périnelle"

The Craft

The ancestor of the Loire craft

The Craft

The celtic grand father of the ancestor

SEAMANSHIP

Seamanship

Fishing

Seamanship

The LOIRE RIVER CONVOY

Seamanship

CONNECTION BETWEEN THE BOATS

Seamanship

HORSE HAULING

Seamanship

PUNTING THE BOAT (BOURDER) ,

MANOEUVRER à LA BOURDE (grande perche)

Seamanship

• L'ENDREMAGE –crossing the bridge without stopping, keeping way on the boat with sail half lowered

• (balance between the wind force and mast resistance there is risk of damage to the mast)

CRAFTSMANSHIP AND

CULTURAL ASPECTS

The Crafts

Left. The pegging of the curves and the sole is completed.

Right. The construction required the fabrication of 1500 hexagonal pegs of 30mm diam. In order to smooth off the projecting part of the peg, the boat is tilted. Once in position the pegs are spread with cross punches so they are watertight and cannot be forced out.

The Crafts

Left: After some five hundred days‘ work, the scute is almost completed. In the foreground can be seen the sawing horse and its supports for use with a frame saw. Behind it lies a rudder with a triangular blade.

Right: A Loire Scute, launched 13th June 2010, in the presence of a number of Gauls, several Vikings, a detachment of Napolean‘s Old Garde (les Grognards – the grumblers) and a crowd of onlookers. Since then the Bishop of Tours has named her Dame Périnelle, the name of the lady benefactor of the poor of the parish. The final fitting out will be done while afloat, specifically those necessary for receiving passengers at the quayside to introduce them to the Loire in medieval times, of which the scute was an essential element.

The Crafts

A RESTORATION

ORIGINALY A SMALL "BELLE PLAISANCE" BOAT BUILT

IN 1910 THEN CONVERTED (BADLY) INTO A

WORKBOAT, FINALLY RESTORED IN 2007

The Crafts

THE WICKER POT AND BASKET MAKER

The Crafts

THE SMITH AND HIS TRAVELLING SMITHY

The Crafts

THE CARPENTER

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