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petra's of all it's because a city on the bank of lake in russia's north west. south 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 of wooden boats making. tons of ports. roger laps of turning the corner someone up until. she she island is 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 who 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 console each launch is an exciting and festive occasion. the shipyards owner is unlikely to ever get bored with sending vessels on them maiden voyage. joe average there suggest that wooden boats have been built throughout human history and i don't see any reason why we should have to stop making them. after all was the only building material that actually has a life of its own still. today in 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. see. call of son of part

of his back in his home town of petra 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 ship building. the grid founded in seventeen zero 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 it is shipyards where 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 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 was. the last of a look. i think for us we should take this design forty eight where it's a bit smaller the construction is the same as forty a. 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. will be here. that

internal was over that. are you going to cover it up there's no this stays open. 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 to hold this position to los. cabos shipyards stand side by side with the wall known by the dimitri of 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 this side the weed is too 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

formal 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 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 while a canoe got. nearly all local ship builders meet there once a year the keys you will get is a traditional boat race in russia's northwest it takes place on the first weekend of will cost. them if they skip a historical boot is like a time machine when you get on board here if you're dressed up accordingly or even

just wearing your regular clothes a bit you find yourself in the atmosphere of a life that is no more. dimitry have built his first sailing vessel more than thirty years ago since then private enterprises have sprung up. the first boat was called the paul more little army than voyage was in nine hundred eighty seven when we went to spins bergan aboard that vessel at that will get a foothold in we naturally we experienced firsthand the pleasures of going to history boarded into each boat. film companies often turn to petras of boats ship billed as. one of the scenes from the blockbuster pirates of the caribbean beach is a sailing vessel built puzzle much you called shipyard. pavel has warm memories of another occasion when he got a request from british filmmakers. of alpha rommel to buy onto the telephone

call and the caller said he represented a film company would you as much as he owes me 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 pavel had read the hornblower a novel by the british author sessile scott forrest it was clear from the list of ships that he was being asked to do his bit for an adaptation of the book. but he said right away though that it was about see battles cheering the napoleonic wars so were there no more to. serve even that small bit of information narrowed it down for us and forrester was the first name that sprang to mind which aboard. 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 whole blow

a sequel which will build in petrus of votes one two emmy awards. it's in there were old. first. building rowing boats as well as models was quite a challenge to force 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 it from a french one. into puzzles shipyard less than a year to build eleven replica vessels and four full scale run but it's dating back to the late eighteenth century. collingswood done by restores the keiji museum.

itself a year to complete the job it was and we build models with sales. and carvings. things board. 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 victor dimitri of shipyard in petra's avoids almost twenty years ago at the request of a russian film company the vessel is an exact copy of the sixteenth century cost boat. 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. this is a natural war saw it up into four sections then will separate it in the meat

section and then put it all back together in this sort of good museum with. sometimes victor and pavel 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 still oh good day hours ago and not mine everything's fine. have you finished in the deck cabin. let's install the gas tank here for almost maybe let's put it there you go with all the other equipment has been linked up. like the engine control. right now demetrius company is working on boats ordered by theodore to 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 but 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 i think to tell me to f. has built some fifty vessels the shipyard launches new boats on a regular basis in petrus of victories known by the nickname admiral. some of the monks specially old of boats are ready to test on the water accompanying the monk on his trip on historical enthusiastic their aim is to reach the shores of keiji island to take part in a special performance. wealthy british

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at the beginning of the season the optical odyssey shipyard that was launched to pall mall but. they had been ordered by the government of russia's northeast region of to cut cook which is less than one hundred kilometers from alaska. all but your own north well why is the opposing plate spall. up or going shifted so it won't get in the way of. the probable ago when this spring up quickly it would get there. in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries european explorers were busy looking for routes into asia and africa meanwhile the 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. don't seem you don't just know for a joke around chick. seven such boats he set out from the arctic ocean and ended up in an a deer where the boats were taken apart on 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 the north's 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 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 e-mails here you need to know how to set a sail in the nick of time. float 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 for. the st nicholas to safely reached kishi island with tourists on board. tomorrow one of the main events of the year because she regatta will take place. here yeah hang the ladder up to the right side. seven old men from to cook are going to take part in the first kishi regatta. they're building a traditional chook she cut back on a nearby island. these days to use only small car yards for hunting at sea but in the old days large kayaks like this one were used for to hunt

for whales and walrus like. this one here is the bee gaia. and six companions spent more than two days on that journey from to cut to key they travelled by train on steam boat 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 but. fortunately each wanted in transit because we didn't stored properly. nevertheless the churchy 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 we'll turn it around when we get to the water.

she is an island on lake an egg. here is a unique museum of would not the texture on 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 guard 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 a monk thick to still insist on historical friend 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 a lot of our traditional raw. and i could texture reasoning this is because the main constructions have been made without a brilliant person so to make do without because they cost a lot of money. that artists be got such roofs for instance there are piles of churches. of houses and the like adi barney frank 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 foundations. this 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.

person through with and with but this means that the building assumption doesn't get in the way as we work on the foundation. one of the first bell ring is in post communist russia is cycling briskly to make sure he reports for the welcome time. these hundreds the bells and three of the t.g. church 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. 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. trying different depending on whether the secular holiday is being celebrated igor who says that villages sometimes even danced to the sound bells. but this is an improvised nation on the theme of best of choice. 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. additional wooden boats and modern spokes person 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. 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 but. even over that short distance accidents still happen the rudder of the cheek brakes. the rudders come loose. harder stroke one. stroke. stroke free. but neither the tiresome journey the ruined wall riskin all the failed . and 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 for stroke five strokes six stroke seven. son of the ship builder from petra zawacki has taken part in the p.g. regatta for the first time his vessel in the modern sports but category came second many generations of people to call his ancestors lived on the shores of the lake. another key easy regatta has come to an end. some participants bid farewell to one another and prepare for departure. the keiji rules a stringent 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. and see people are put to the test and it soon becomes abundantly clear what sort of person they are. is notorious for its character selling there is sometimes more treacherous and in open water indeed locals often regard it as a sea how strong is the wind westerly wind ten meters per second roger. the crew of the cent because he set sail for the lake.

pass in the book. are you frightened no not yet. it's. called the rudder. the fool they reach home they will have to come up some fourteen multiple miles through rough waves.

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