for the russian navy today just one of the leading centers the wooden boat making. tons of books. about turning to porn somewhat of a. cheesy island just a short distance from the trees of old school nothing has changed in the past two hundred years. diamond looks like an open m.e.c. and. once a year it becomes a meeting point for 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 their maiden voyage. joe average first. 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 are still true. today in a boat which was built on the request of a group of scientists it will help researches muster universities biological station situated by the white sea. shield to mark to call of son of kabul not to cough is back in his hometown of patricio 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 a suitable blueprints for an. 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 two calls. and says it times a local plant built 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 passed their interest 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. nice overlook. i think for us we should take this design forty eight where it's a bit smaller the construction is the same as for two. months this 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. given ten dollars 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 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 reduce to 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 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 and they've got. nearly all local shipbuilders meet there once a year the keiji regatta is a traditional boat race in russia's northwest it takes place on the first weekend of oldest. in the city skip the historical buddha is like a time machine when you get on board here if you're dressed up accordingly or even just wearing your regular well you find yourself in the atmosphere of a wife 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 what the filth of the first boat was called the pull more little army than bush 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 first hand the pleasures of going to history boarded into each boat kind of media. 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. pavel 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 studio much of that will go beyond 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 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 touring the napoleonic wars so were there no more to. serve even that small bit of information narrowed it down forests and forrester was the first name that sprang to mind for their. 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 hornblower sequel which were built in petrus of votes one two emmy awards. season ticket holders. building rowing boats as well as models was quite

a challenge to force up whether we had to have 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 in english for it from the french one. into puddles 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. itself a year to complete the job and we build models with sails cannons 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 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 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. this is a natural 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 still oh good day i was a go a lot of money everything's fine. have you finished in the deck cabin. 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 monk's 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 they turned to me to have has built some fifty vessels the shipyard launches new boats on a reg. the basis in petrus of votes victor is known by the nickname. some of the monks specially ordered 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. a

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at the beginning of the season the arctic odyssey shipyard that was launched to pummel boats. 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. up but your own are more wires the opposing players will. want to shift it to when get in the way. the wind is picking up quickly.

in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries european explorers were busy looking for roots 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. there's some young just knows forage around to cut current full of seven such boats he set out from the arctic ocean and ended up in an a deer where the boats were taken apart the expeditions members return to their base in yet on foot. seven replicas of pommel boats a team to set out on an expedition retracing the route only two of them have been built so far. they have been tried out in both the white sea and into of europe's largest lakes. and lot of alexei vala boy the job of took part in both

trials. at the phone 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 a year you need to know how to set a sale in the nick of. time reflowed 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 favor. the st nicholas has safely reached keiji island with tourists on board. tomorrow one of the main events of the year because she regatta will take place. here on the angle that are 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 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 a big guy a. maxime to new and six companions spent more than two days on that journey from to cut cut to keep they traveled by f. train i'm 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 earlier with the first quote is a good one fortunately he taught it 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 chukchi war 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 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 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 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 matter of our traditional raw. and i could texture reasoning this is because the main constructions have been made without turning

a brilliant peasant so to make do without because they cost a lot of money here is that artists be got such roofs for instance there are piles of churches. barns even bought 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. is 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 of but what 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 in post communist russia is cycling briskly to make sure he reports for work on time. these hundred of 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 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 bells 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 villages sometimes even danced to the sound bells. 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. 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 two cheek kayak as a traditional ten 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. brakes.

the rudders come loose. harder stroke one. stroke. stroke free. but neither the tiresome journey the ruined wall riskin all the failed . live there was a construct the choke races they take first place in that category with a record sixteen 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.z. regatta for the first time his vessel in the modern sports by category came second many generations of two cubs ancestors lived on the shores of the lake.

another p.v. 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 an open water indeed locals often regard

it as a sea i think how strong is the wind westerly wind is ten meters per second to roger . the crew of the cent because set sail for the lake. pass in the book. are you frightened no not yet the fossil it's. all the rudder. the bull they reach home they will have to cover some fourteen multiple miles through rough waves.

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