eighteenth century as a supply base for the russian navy today just one of the leading centers the wooden boat making. tons of books. roger battle turning to porn some of the. 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 mark two 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 suggested 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 is the only building material that actually has a life of its art school. 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 white sea. shore to mark to call of son of kabul not to cough is back in his hometown 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 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 is shipyards where elsewhere. there are several private shipyards and. they operate just like the ones owned by the two calls. in soviet times a local plant built minesweepers for the navy it was shut down in the one nine hundred ninety s. but some of the stuff went 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 a smile pity on us overlook. i think for us we should take this design forty eight where it's a bit small and the construction is the same as forty a. month he 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. you will be here. internals over there. are you going to cover it up there's no this stays open for the number of victory it should be covered up. you know you'll get access through

this opening. which 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. donk lino with his side to lead us through strong. safety first. the st nicholas was built in petra's of all sc in 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 nautical miles before it reaches keiji island while a canoe got. nearly all local ship builders meet them once a year the keys you regatta is a traditional boat race in russia's northwest it takes place on the first weekend of will cost. them if they skip the historical buddha is like a time machine when you get on board here if you dressed up accordingly or even just wearing your regular clothes you find yourself in the atmosphere of a life that is no more. to dmitri have built his first sailing vessel more than

thirty years ago since then private enterprises have sprung up. with a filth of the first boat was called the pull more little army than bush was in one nine hundred eighty seven when we went to spins bergin aboard that vessel at the most beautiful horse in we naturally we experienced first hand 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. paddle has war memories of another occasion when he got a request from british filmmakers. of alpha rommel. well into the telephone call and the caller said he represented a film company would you. rather go 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. going to go with it 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 all ship builders to identify the historical background by word of mouth alone the boats for the whole blow a sequel which were built in petrus of one to emmy awards. it's a good. first. building rowing boats as well as models was quite

a challenge before us whether we had to handle a lot of archive material to be able to make english and french vessels. if you're a mom and we were also told that british audiences can be quite sophisticated. but they have no difficulty telling an english for it from a french one. into puzzles shipyard less than a year to build eleven replica vessels for 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 and we build models with sales channel and carvings. since board. some of the ships launched in petrus 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 dmitri 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 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 pawel 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 to 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 it's what 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 to tell me to f. has built some fifty vessels his shipyard launches new boats on a reg. basis in petrus of votes victor is known by the nickname. 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. wealthy british style.

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arcane things as financial templates the research to maintain our confidence in long kids and. wants to be easing trade imbalances recession looks to be the nation's close to collapsing a suppling loan for close home people. to fail so we play banks again feel like thing is us crashing timonen smashed ceiling teams. is it like we're going to finish last in athens three the i.m.f. imports twenty three and just programs increase the term economist. at the beginning of the season the optical odyssey shipyard that has 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. ah but you must look what wires the road doesn't play

a small. one shifted so when get in the way. of probable the. wind is picking up quickly. in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries european explorers were busy looking for routes leading to 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. 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 that you just set out on an

expedition retracing the knobs route only two of them have been built so far. has been tried out in both the white sea and in two of europe's largest lakes. and lot of alexei vala boy but joe took part in both trials. at a friends 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 a year 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 the kishi regatta will take place.

hang the ladder up to the right side. seven old men from to cook are going to take part in the first keiji regatta. they're building a traditional chill 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 to be gaia. and six companions spent more than two days on that journey from to cut cut to keep they traveled by f 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. and 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 will turn around when we get to the water. she she is an island on lake an egg and. here is a unique museum of would knock a textural. the 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 the 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 bolton expedition being organized by a monk thick to still 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 material here.

that's another of our traditional. russian i could texture reasoning this is because the main constructions have been made without. peasants so to me they do without because they cost a lot of money. that artists be got such roofs for instance there are piles of churches. barns houses and the like adi barkan. 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 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 of being gradually replaced

since two thousand. 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 stance and disassembled part of the church this is the lifting system of complete with lifting jacks. it works just like this. with us here with and with but this means that the building as such doesn't get in the way as we work on the foundation. one of the first bell ring is imposed communist russia is cycling briskly to make sure he reports for work on time. these hundreds the bells and three of the keys each 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 since 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 is different depending on whether the secular holiday is being celebrated igor who says that village is sometimes even danced to the sound tells. us that this is an improviser 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 adapted to the stroke of an old. think that. it is only natural that the 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 but. 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 failed . and of the other can stop the races they take first place in that category with a record sixty minutes and forty seven seconds. stroke for stroke by stroke six stroke seven. the son of the ship builder from petra zawacki has taken part in the p.z. regatta for the first time his vessel in the modern sports by 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. guests and participants bid farewell to one another and prepare for departure. 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. i've seen 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 than in open water indeed locals often regard it as a seat but how strong is the wind westerly wind is ten meters per second roger. the crew of the sent because he set sail for the lake. played. bass in the book. are you frightened no not yet fossil it's. told the rider. the full they reach home they will have to come up some fourteen multiple miles through rough waves.

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