(English) Maritime Heritage Skills: New Project Annoucement

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Traditional Maritime Heritage Enthusiasts Invited to Nautical Conference

 

Friday October 5th, 10am-5pm

Provinciaal Erfgoed Centrum, Lotharingenstraat

9700 Ename (Oudenaarde), Belgium

Enthusiasts of beautiful historic vessels are invited to attend the Traditional Maritime Skills conference in Belgium next month dedicated to preserving the customs and skills of a historic boat building industry.

The Traditional Maritime Skills (TMS) conference in Ename, [...]

Rebuild of Dutch Wooden Boeier Yacht ‘ Vabel’

The laborious process of restoring Holland’s longest Dutch wooden boeier yacht is being monitored to help preserve century-old skills.

The round-bottomed Vabel yacht is being rebuilt to her former glory plank by plank in order to conserve an important part of Dutch maritime history.

Traditional boat builder Julian de Jonge, of Ship Restoration Zaete, [...]

Cornish Wooden Boatbuilder Revives Classic Mayflower

Cornish wooden boatbuilder Marcus Lewis has unveiled his beautiful Mayflower dinghy, built under the gaze of the TMS project’s cameras and which marking the revival of a classic gunter rigged design.

The newly-built 14ft dinghy will be unveiled at the Southampton Boatshow’s Wooden Boatbuilders Association stand.

Marcus, from Fowey in South Cornwall, spent [...]

Traditional Skills Recorded on Board Historic Tall Ship Mercator

Skills used to maintain the historic tall ship Mercator in Belgium have been documented as part of an important educational resource for future traditional boat builders.

The beautiful vessel is maintained as a sailing ship museum in Oostende and on-going conservation work to preserve the 78.5 meter barkentine is carried out by a dedicated [...]

Launch of Largest Wooden UK Lugger Built for 200 Years

A young couple from Cornwall have just launched the largest wooden lugger built for 200 years.

Detailed recordings were made of the traditional skills used to build of the three-masted 108ft traditional lugger, called Grayhound. These videos, plus images and interviews, form part of the TMS project’s free online learning tool that will help [...]

Virtual Learning Environment Set for Launch

A valuable online tool, packaged with a wealth of traditional boatbuilding educational resources, will be launched at next month’s conference in Belgium.

The free and comprehensive virtual learning environment has been created to deliver detailed course frameworks covering a host of traditional skills such as riveting, splicing, rigging, laminating and sewing sails. Individual time-lapse [...]

Maritieme Dagen in Vlissingen

Tijdens dit weekend (24 & 25 augustus 2012) Niek Peters woonden de Maritieme Dagen in Vlissingen, een gezamenlijke stand met de Stichting Behoud Hoogaars om de traditionele vaardigheden die worden gebruikt door scheepsbouwers te bevorderen.

Ruimshoots Atikel – TMS

Wie weet nog wat stokelen is, of disselen? Wie kan nog een schip opmeten zoals het hoort? 0f een splitsing in een stalen kabel beschermen door het aanbrengen van een takeling? De medewerkers aan het  Interregproject “Traditional Maritime Skills” zullen je dat, en nog veel meer, haarfijn kunnen uitleggen.

 

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Oostende voor Anker Maritieme Festival

 

De 13de editie van Oostende voor Anker was weer een voltreffer ! Naar schatting 250.000 mensen hebben in Oostende de 13e editie van het maritieme festival “Oostende voor Anker” bijgewoond. Verspreid over vier dagen – van 25 tot en met 28 mei – konden de bezoekers een 150-tal klassieke zeilschepen bewonderen [...]