@willard3 said:
Do you see many leeboard sailboats where you are, Peter?
Yes, there are several of those nearby.
The one in the picture above was there during an event. But in the village next to mine, there is an organization that makes them.
They are a group of (older) volunteers that work on the boats, and at the same time teach young people (usually unemployed) the art of woodwork.
During the event in 2012, they had several boats there.
The event was to celebrate that 100 years before the Belgian government organized a competition for hydroplanes.
The winner would get a contract to deliver several planes to be used in Congo (Belgian colony in that time)
They even had a replica of one of the planes that participated in 1912.
@lkbart Yes they were definitely extra large! The little girl with the video camera is my youngest daughter (she is all grown up now at 19). I took the footage she filmed, plus the images I got and we made a movie of the whole trip (it was a month long trip of the Mediterranean back in 2011). She did the research and narrated the whole documentary and got an A+ on the project for school. Now it makes for fond memories to see it again!
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Catfish and river rats in the Jordon River in Israel
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Do you see many leeboard sailboats where you are, Peter?
Yes, there are several of those nearby.
The one in the picture above was there during an event. But in the village next to mine, there is an organization that makes them.
They are a group of (older) volunteers that work on the boats, and at the same time teach young people (usually unemployed) the art of woodwork.
gspep.smugmug.com & steendorp.smugmug.com
FB: www.facebook.com/peter.perdaen - Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/1150GSPEP/videos
Glad to see this, Peter.
People here built a leeboard boat recently and I fotoed it in the Erie Canal.
Leeboard boats are designed to work in shallow water which we have as well as you.
During the event in 2012, they had several boats there.
The event was to celebrate that 100 years before the Belgian government organized a competition for hydroplanes.
The winner would get a contract to deliver several planes to be used in Congo (Belgian colony in that time)
They even had a replica of one of the planes that participated in 1912.
gspep.smugmug.com & steendorp.smugmug.com
FB: www.facebook.com/peter.perdaen - Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/1150GSPEP/videos
@lkbart Yes they were definitely extra large! The little girl with the video camera is my youngest daughter (she is all grown up now at 19). I took the footage she filmed, plus the images I got and we made a movie of the whole trip (it was a month long trip of the Mediterranean back in 2011). She did the research and narrated the whole documentary and got an A+ on the project for school. Now it makes for fond memories to see it again!
A photograph is an artistic expression of life, captured one moment at a time . . .
http://bartlettphotoart.smugmug.com/
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Presa del Obraje (workshop dam) Built by thr gachupines and still in very good shape.
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