the st nicholas is about to set out from the payer of the arctic odyssey club victor demetrius sees off his son alexei. donkey 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 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 by lake the new guy. nearly all local ship builders 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 august. when they face get a historica