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europe's mute satellite navigation system on its way to rivalling america's g.p.s. i'm. talking about with more stories for you more developments in less than half an hour from now in the meantime sailing through the centuries you can find out what it took to become a professional sailor in the past that's in our special report next on r.t. . petra's avoids is a city on the bank of lake and russia's north west. south peter the great founded it in the early eighteenth century as a supply base for the russian navy today says one of the leading centers the wooden boat making. tons of books. roger babson's telling supporters somewhat of a. cheesy island just a short distance from pictures of old school nothing has changed in the past two

hundred years. the island looks like an open any z.m. . once a year it becomes a meeting point of festivals to belong to a bygone era. rather than macho called set of a private shipyard more than twenty years ago. since then the shop has been crammed with wooden boats even under construction already for sailing. the console each launch is an exciting and festive occasion. shipyards owner is unlikely to ever get bored with sending vessels and then maiden voyage. so it's there's a graph for the wooden boats have been built throughout human history third this is and i don't see any reason why we should ever stop making them rather with. after

all was the only building material that actually has a life of its are still true. today pavel 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 y. . see. kill tomato call of son of pablo not to cough is back in his hometown of countries or votes 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 some to build politically for a new project. technical expertise and the experience of a historian but equally important these kind of should. you know the great founded petra's of old skin seventeen o three literally a month after he established st petersburg headers of all the schools created for the purpose of manufacturing cannons and cannon balls for the fledgling russian

navy i guess however peter didn't build wooden boats here his shipyards were elsewhere. there are several private shipyards in petra zawacki they operate just like the ones owned by the mob she calls. and says this times a local plant built with a mine sweepers for the navy it was shut down in the one nine hundred ninety s. but some of the stuff when fuz yes ticking off to set up businesses of their own moreover they pass their interest wooden boats on to their children. now are we going to make the steering or. the boats quite small so let's take a look at design forty five. it is. a small pity on us and look. i think for us we should take design forty eight

it's a bit smaller the construction is the same as forty five. monk the testis has come to countries of votes from the volga region he has ordered the construction of replicas of russian boats stating back to ancient times the monk keeps a watchful eye on the progress of the work. will be here. their internal was over that is if you are you going to cover it up there is no this stays open. but it should be covered up. you get access through this opening. it will this be closed. that will be open you have a hard time getting anything through there to hold this position to. cover those shipyards stand side by side with the wall known by the to dimitri of the st nicholas is about to set out from the payer of the arctic odyssey club victor

demetrius sees off his son alexei. johns we know with his side the leaders through strong. safety first. the st nicholas was built in patches 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 formal merchants 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 britain. we sailed past france and norway which travelled across the northern seed to new castle in england we've been in swedish and danish waters that we've covered practically the whole of northern europe. the ship will cover some forty nautical

miles before it reaches key g i. island by lake and they got. nearly all local ship builders meet them once a year the keys the regatta is a traditional boat race in russia's northwest it takes place on the first weekend of oldest. goodness and if the historical book 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. victor dimitri have built his first sailing vessel more than thirty years ago since then private enterprises have sprung up going to. defer school it was called the pull more than the army even though it was in one hundred eighty seven when we went to spitzbergen aboard the vessel if you will in we naturally we experienced first hand the pleasures of going to history boarded

vintage boat going to. film companies often turn to petras of boats ship builders. one of the scenes from the blockbuster pirates of the caribbean beach is a sailing vessel built powerful much you called shipyard. paddle has warm memories of another occasion when he got a request from british filmmakers. of alpha run. by on to the telephone call and the caller said he represented the film company in the studio as much as the other guy he also has to build some models for a film but he didn't say exactly which film it was going to be. shortly before the film called powerful had read the hornblower a novel by the british author sessile scott forrester it was clear from the list of ships that he was being asked to do his bit for an adaptation of the book. here to go work but he said right away though it was about see battles during the

napoleonic wars so were there no more to. observe even a small bit of information narrowed it down forests and forrester was the first name that sprang to mind when. the customers were impressed by the ability of petra's of old shipbuilders to identify the historical background by word of mouth alone the boats for the hornblower sea called which were built in patches of votes one two emmy awards. this is the one. person. building rowing boats as well as models was quite a challenge to force it up i think we had to handle a lot of archive material to be able to make english and french vessels. when we were also told that british audiences can be quite sophisticated. but they

have no difficulty telling an english frigate 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. collingswood done by restores the keiji museum. to yourself a year to complete the job and we don't models with sales channel and carvings. since board. some of the ships launched in texas of all skin the past years are already part of modern history a museum in the siberian town of circuits is playing with the idea of enriching its collection with a replica of the cost that it was made in think to dimitry of shipyard in petra's avoid school most twenty years ago at the request of a russian film company. the vessel is an exact copy of the sixteenth century cost

but. so you have replaced this part here yes excellent now the planks here please. replica was featured in a film about the legendary. the man who conquered siberia. this is the live natural will saw it up into four sections then we'll separate know it in the meat section and then put it all back together and it's a good museum. sometimes victor and pavel compete for clients on other occasions they combine forces on joint projects and. one of the employees is showing the monk how the project is progressing. good day how's it going and not much everything's fine.

have you finished in the deck i've been. going. but let's install the gas tank here for a spell more maybe let's put it there you go. with all the other equipment has been linked up to. like the engine control. right now demetrius company is working on boats ordered by theatre pistis 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 its hope we 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 victor dimitri effort has built some fifty vessels his shipyard launches new boats on a reg. a basis in petra's of votes victor is known by the nickname admiral.

some of the monks specially older 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 kishi island to take part in a special performance. culture is that so much a lot of people are hearing all their little words the first presley fifteen minute occupy protests occurring in eighty two countries worldwide this is a global protest movement was staying power. on. the news.

from. the beginning of the season the optical to see shipyard that has also launched to pall mall but. they had been ordered by the government of russia's northeast region of to cut cut which is less than one hundred kilometers from alaska. our ports. you know what wires the road doesn't play the small. but.

one shifted so we're getting away with. it probably. the wind is picking up quickly . in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries european explorers were busy looking for routes eating 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 those very roots as a reminder of the discoveries made by russian seafarers. business and your own just knows forage around. 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 returned to their base in yakutia on foot. seven replicas of camo boats that you just set out on an expedition retracing this nobs route only two of them of the bill so far.

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. for it's a completely unique experience like it's nothing like what you're used to back in town you don't need to take ten calls or write five hundred e-mails here you need to know how to set a sail in the nick of time or refloat your vessel if it runs aground what with all that completely changes your mindset and even helps you to find your purpose in life or for faith in. the st nicholas to safely reach keiji island with tourists on board. tomorrow one of the main events of the year a key she regatta will take place. here yeah

hang the ladder up to the right side. seven old men from the trial court are going to take part in the first occasion recap. their building a traditional cheat cut back on a nearby island. these days they use only small car yards for hunting at sea but in the old days large coyotes like this one were used to hunt for whales and walrus or. this one here is the big guy of. my thinking and you and six companions spent more than two days a med journey from to cut. they traveled by train and steamboat a team had brought with them one hundred fifty kilograms of war risk in which they were going to use to make a boat but they were in for a disappointment at the end of that journey for there were over unfortunately each

wanted in transit because we didn't stored properly or of course. but. nevertheless the chook tree craftsman managed to find an alternative. they replaced the natural skin of a common chooks he wore a suit with plastic. kayak was ready to use a day before the race. so we turn it around you know will turn around when we get to the water. she is an island the lake a nigga. here is a unique museum of would not the texture of the island. the collection includes dozens of structures some of them are 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 a pier for 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 taurus or as participants in the k.g. regatta which is held once a year. the participants in the bolton expedition being organized by a monk the pistis insist on historical fun 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 material here.

that's american oh it's traditional raw. ssion i could texture reasoning this is because the main constructions have been made without nails in the briley as unsubtle made to do without because they cost a lot of money before he started his b. got such groups for instance who are part of churches so he calls a sponsor in both houses and like everybody else who would. this is the source of the legend claiming that the key z. churches were built without a single nail in the in reality only the walls and roofs were made without using nails and they were indispensable church terms 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 have been gradually replaced some sometimes. now the church is almost suspended in the air because of

the restoration work on its foundation. this to begin with we needed a good foundation the lower part was taken away to be restored we put up a new stems and this is sampled part of the church this is the lifting system of complete with lifting jacks. it works just like this. process there were none of this means that the building assumption doesn't get in the way as we work on the foundation says it's. igor huzzah one of the first bowring is imposed communist russia is cycling briskly to make sure he reports welcome time. these hundreds the bell is a really cheesy church shot 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 throw everything here. is just as it was in the eighteenth and nineteenth century there's no noise of the kind you find in cities. today the bells sound as they did a hundred or two hundred years ago because they're not drowned out by noise. the hole in the water also helps the chinese travel over long distances. china is different depending on whether the richest secular holiday is being celebrated igor who says that villages sometimes even dance to the sound bells. is often a cool place to visit improvise ation on the theme of best of choice but i mean normally this stall is not intended for people marching in a religious procession. rather it's ducted to the stroke of an old group.

i think that. it is only natural that chime from the belfry signals the start of the key gene regatta. thirty participants pitting three cancerous. boats traditional 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 two cheek kayak as a traditional timber but. stroke one rope. strong very strong force. 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 butts. 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 chukchi races i take first place in that category with a record sixty minutes and forty seven seconds. stroke for stroke five stroke six stroke seven. the son of the ship builder from petra zawacki has taken part in the t.g. regatta for the first time in his vessel in the modern sports but category came

second in many generations of people to come off to cause ancestors lived on the shoals of the neck and make. it another t.v. regatta has come to an end. just some participants bid farewell to one another and prepare for departure. occasion 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 it's come in. the boat's crew gets ready for another voyage. i've seen people are put to the test and it soon becomes abundantly clear what sort

of person they are. nathan a guy is notorious for its character selling that is sometimes more treacherous an open water indeed the locals often regard it as a see how strong is the way in westerly wind would send me just the second to kill roger. to prove the scent because he set sail for the lake. last in the book asked. tom are you frightened no not yet then fossett. told the rider. before they reach home they will have to come up some fourteen all tickle miles through rough waves.

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