erected by locals back in july to stop kosovo from setting up a customs post. back sailing through the centuries find out what it took to become a professional sailor in the past in our special report stay with us. petra's of all it's because a city on the bank of lake in russia's northwest. saw peter the great founded it in the early eighteenth century as a supply base for the russian navy today just one of the leading centers the wooden boat making. tons of books. rogers laps and turning to corner someone of. cheesy island just a short distance from the trees of old school nothing has changed in the past two hundred years. the island looks like an open any museum. once

a year it becomes a meeting point of vessels to belong to a bygone era. puzzle master called set up a private shipyard more than twenty years ago. since then the shop has been crammed with wooden boats even under construction already for sailing. for pavel each launch is an exciting and festive occasion. the shipyards owner is unlikely to ever get bored with sending vessels on then maiden voyage. joy it's their success for the wooden boats have been built throughout human history three this year and i don't see any reason why we should ever stop making them. after all was the only building material that actually has

a life of its art school. today is launching a boat which was built on the request of a group of scientists it will help researches moscow university's biological station situated. by the white sea. to call of son of to cough is back in his home town of petra zawacki following the trip to st petersburg educated as an engineer he spent a good deal of time there in the libraries he was looking for suitable blueprints for a new project. technical expertise and the experience of a historian but equally important these kind of shipbuilding. the great founded head results can seventeen o three literally a month after he established st petersburg. created for the purpose of manufacturing cannons and cannon balls for the fledgling russian navy. however peter didn't build wooden boats here his shipyards were elsewhere.

there are several private shipyards and. they operate just like the ones owned by the mach two calls. and says it times a local plant built wooden minesweepers for the navy it was shut down in the one nine hundred ninety s. but some of the stuff when fuz yes taken off to set up businesses of their own moreover they passed their interest in wooden boats on to their children. are we going to make the steering or. the boats quite small so let's take a look at design forty five. it is. what a smile pity on us overlook. i think for us we should take this design forty eight it's a bit small and the construction is the same. month

it has come to petra zawacki from the volga region he has ordered the construction of replicas of russian boats dating back to ancient times the monk keeps a watchful eye on the progress of the work. ring will be here. internals over that city are you going to cover it up there's no this stays open for the number of agree it should be covered up. you know you'll get access through this opening. will this be closed. that will be open you'll have a hard time getting anything through there if the hole is positioned to los. cabos shipyard stand side by side with the wall known by the demetrius. the st nicholas is about to set out from the payer of the arctic odyssey club victor dmitri if he's off his son alexei. don't lean over the side to lead us through strong.

safety first. the st nicholas was built in petra's of all skin one thousand nine hundred one such boats were used by paul most people who lived on the russian coast of the white sea in the fifteenth through to eighteenth centuries similar boats to pummel merchants to every part of northern europe. over the past two decades maritime festivals made to st nicholas a familiar sight all the way from bergen and norway to bristol in britain. we sailed past france and norway which travelled across the northern seed to new castle. in england and we've been in swedish and danish waters we've covered practically the whole of northern europe. the ship will cover some forty north to cool miles before it reaches keiji island by lake the new guy. nearly all local

ship builders meet there once a year to keiji regatta is a traditional boat race in russia's northwest it takes place on the first weekend of oldest. in this city skip the historical buddha is like a time machine when you get on board dressed up accordingly or even just wearing your regular service you find yourself in the atmosphere of a life that is no more. linked to dmitri have built his first sailing vessel more than thirty years ago since then private enterprises have sprung up a bit of a while to fill the first boat was called the pull more little army even though he was in nine hundred eighty seven when we went to spins bergin aboard that vessel at that will get a foothold in way naturally we experienced first hand the pleasures of going to history boarded into each boat going to the. film companies often turn to petrus of boats ship billed as. one of the scenes from the blockbuster pirates of

the caribbean beach is a sailing vessel built a couple much you called shipyard. paddle has warm memories of another occasion when he got a request from british filmmakers. of all for almost. well into the telephone call and the caller said he represented a film company in the us would you want to. be to build some models for a film but he didn't say exactly which film it was going to be. shortly before the phone call powerful had read the whole novel by the british author sessile scott forrest it was cliff. the list of ships that he was being asked to do his bit for an adaptation of the book. got to go with it but he said right away though that it was about see battles june the napoleonic wars so everything now more to. serve even that small bit of information narrowed it down

forests and forrester was the first name that sprang to mind when she boarded. the customers were impressed by the ability of petra's of old ship builders to identify the historical background by word of mouth alone the boats for the hornblower see cool which were built in petrus of votes one two emmy awards. season ticket holders. first. building rowing boats as well as models was quite a challenge to force people up whether we had to have a lot of archive material to be able to make english and french vessels. and we were also told that british audiences can be quite sophisticated. but they have no difficulty telling an industry from a french one. into puzzles shipyard less than

a year to build eleven replica vessels and four full scale rowing boats dating back to the late eighteenth century. the collingswood done by restores the keiji museum . itself a year to complete the job with and we build models with sales canons and carvings . since. some of the ships launched in petra's of all skin the past years are already part of modern history a museum in the siberian town of circuit is playing with the idea of enriching its collection with a replica of a boat it was made in vic to do. mitri of shipyard in petra almost twenty years ago at the request of a russian film company the vessel is an exact copy of a sixteenth century cost but. so you have replaced this part here yes

excellent now the blanks here please. replica was featured in a film about the legendary. the man who conquered siberia. naturally will sew it up into four sections then separate it in the meat section and then put it all back together in the museum. sometimes victor and compete for clients on other occasions they combine forces on joint projects. one of the employees is showing the monk how the project is progressing. a song stylo good day i was a go a lot of money everything's fine. have you finished in the decade. but let's install the gas tank here.

maybe let's put it there. with all the other equipment has been linked up. like the engine control. right now dimitri company is working on boats ordered by theo. the monks idea was to use three replicas of ancient russian boats to retrace the waterway that links russia to the balkans in the eleventh century. life has lost that precious kernel that used to be at its very core the joys of creation learning and discovery if nobody hope to be able to revive those values by organizing what we call the journey from russia to the land of the serbs. since then the to tell me to f. has built some fifty vessels the shipyard launches new boats on a regular basis in petra's of votes victor is known by the nickname admiral. some of the monks specially ordered boats are ready to test on the water

accompanying the monk on his trip all historical enthusiastic their aim is to reach the shores of keiji island to take part in a special performance. culture is that so much a lot of people are curious what their little were up to roughly fifteen hundred occupy protests occurring in eighty two countries worldwide this is a global protest movement was staying power. a very warm welcome to you this is your news today protesters on the walls street they are. ladies and gentlemen

the truth is that to get with your exam the status of the human experiment is it getting on with. your business rap music board it knows it was really trying to make sense of global economy and its arcane things as financial templates the research clambering to maintain your confidence in markets and think you don't want to be easing trade imbalances recession looks to be the nation's close to collapsing a sub prime loans foreclosed homes people. to fail so we play banks again feel a little like think is us crash and imminent smash the ceiling. just like in the classes in athens the i.m.f. of course strikes me on just programs increase the total economy. at the beginning of the season the optical odyssey shipyard that results launched to pall mall but. they had been ordered by the government of

russia's northeast region of two katka which is less than one hundred kilometers from alaska. off but you must walk with wires the opposing players will. go and shift it so it won't get in the way. if. the wind is picking up quickly it would. in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries european explorers were busy looking for routes leading to asia and africa meanwhile their russian counterparts explored the northernmost parts of the asian american continent the authorities of chukotka now want to send an expedition retracing its very roots as a reminder of the discoveries made by russian seafarers. business and you don't just know forage around you called kernville of seven such boats he set out from the arctic ocean and ended up in an

a deer where the boats were taken apart while the expeditions members return to their base in yet on foot. seven replicas of pomo boats a team to set out on an expedition retracing their route only two of them have been built so far. they have been tried out in both the white sea and in two of europe's largest lakes and yoga and lot of alexei vala boy the job of took part in both trials. at the fleet is a completely unique experience it's nothing like what you're used to back in town you don't need to take ten calls or write five hundred emails of a year you need to know. how to set a sail in the nick of time or refloat your vessel if it runs aground well with all that completely changes your mindset and even helps you to find your purpose in life or of. the st nicholas has safely

reached kishi island with tourists on board. tomorrow one of the main events of the year the kishi regatta will take place. yeah having the ladder up to the right side. seven old men from to cut are going to take part in the first key she regrets. they're building a traditional church she cut back on a nearby island. these days to use only small call yorks for hunting at sea but in the old days large kayaks like this one were used for to hunt for whales and walrus like there were for this one here is the bee gaia. maxime ching and you and six companions spent more than two days on that journey from to cut cut to keep they traveled by f train on steamboat the team had brought

with them one hundred fifty kilograms of war skin which they were going to use to make a boat but they were in for a disappointment at the end of that journey from there were full for one fortunately each wanted in transit because we didn't stored properly. nevertheless the truck craftsman managed to find an alternative. they replaced the natural skin of a common chook she wore us with plastic. kayak was ready to use a day before the race. so we turn it around no will turn around when we get to the water. she is an island on lake an egg. here is a unique museum of would knock a tech check your. collection includes dozens of structures

some of them more than two hundred years old. one of the buildings dates back almost five hundred years. more recent structures are found on the coast such as appear to visitors. but for the most part the island looks just like it did one hundred fifty years ago. outsiders can only come here either as tourists or as participants in the keiji regatta which is held once a year. the participants in the balkan expedition being organized by month it to insist on historical fund to city their sporting armor and learning how to wield mediæval weapons.

wooden boats and sailing vessels standing side by side with three hundred year old wooden churches strengthen the illusion of a journey to the times when timber was the principal building to here. that's another of our traditional. russian i could texture reasoning this is because the main constructions have been made without the brilliant peasants so to make do without because they cost a lot of money. that artists such roofs for instance there are piles of churches. in both houses and the like everybody else who would. this is the source of the legend claiming that the keys e churches were built without a single nail in the in reality only the walls and roofs were made without using nails they were indispensable church. nowadays children play with building blocks

know only too well how the walls were built this technique makes restoration much easier damaged parts of the transfiguration church of being gradually replaced since two thousand. now the church is almost suspended in the air because of the restoration work on its foundation. to begin with we needed a good foundation the lower part was taken away to be restored we put up a new stance and disassembled part of the church this is the lifting system of complete with lifting jacks. it works just like this. process there were done with but what this means of the building as such doesn't get in the way as we work on the foundation says it's just a fundamental. one of the first bell ring is

imposed communist russia is cycling briskly to make sure he reports for welcome time. these hundreds the bells and three of the keys each charge for almost two decades there are only a few places in the world where the sound of bells can spread far and wide without echoing off of the surface and it is impossible to confuse the chime of bells with any of. this everything here now is just as it was in the eighteenth and nineteenth century there's no noise of the kind you find in the city. today the bell sound as they did a hundred or two hundred years ago because they're not drowned out by noise. and the water also helps the chinese travel over long distances. china differs depending on whether the richest secular holiday is being celebrated igor who saves the village is sometimes even danced to the sound bells.

in improvise ation on the theme of festive choice but i mean normally this stall is not intended for people marching in a religious procession or rather it's adopted to the stroke of an old. think that. it is only natural that chime from the belfry signals the start of the keys. thirty participants. three factories. additional wooden boats and modern sports but each category has a subgroup with the number of all xmen ranging from one to six. after a brief deliberation the panel of judges decides to class the took cheek kayak as a traditional timber but. stroke one stroke. stroke

free stroke for. the races are expected to cover one nautical mile with each boat going at its own pace as a rule half an hour is enough for even the slowest boats. even over that short distance accidents still happen the rudder of the cheek brakes. the rudders come loose. rule harder stroke one. stroke. stroke free. but neither the tiresome journey the ruined wall riskin all the failure of the rudder can stop the choke races they take first place in that category with a record sixty minutes and forty seven seconds. stroke four stroke five stroke six stroke seven.

son of the ship builder from petra zawacki has taken part in the p.g.a. regatta for the first time his vessel in the modern sports by category came second many generations of people came out to clubs ancestors lived on the shores of the lake. another key easy regatta has come to an end. guests and participants bid farewell to one another and prepare for departure. the keiji rules astringent everybody with the exception of museum staff is required to leave the island before eight pm. to send nicholas to say goodbye to everybody by firing a shot from its cannon. the

boat's crew gets ready for another voyage. if i see people are put to the test and it soon becomes abundantly clear what sort of person they are. is new tourist for its current selling that is sometimes more treacherous than an open water indeed locals often regard it as a sea of how strong is the wind westerly wind at ten meters per second. the crew of the st nicholas set sail for the lake. last in the book. are you frightened no not yet then fossett. told the rider.

the full they reach home they will have to cover some forty multiple miles through rough waves.

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