Grayhound: the revival of trading under sail
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- TRADING UNDER SAIL
Douarnenez is one of the centres of the current revival of trading under sail. This video discusses the revival and describes a voyage aboard Grayhound, one of the vessels that has been involved in this activity.
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WELCOME BACK. You were missed. Glad you doing good. Great video. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
What a wonderful but slightly sorry story Roger! I do enjoy your narration, you have such a joyous and delicate vocabulary.
Hi Rodger, I bought your book, Dinghy cruising companion and a Ness Yoal this week past.
She's needing some work but you've inspired me to sail Scotland (not in winter!)
Thanks
Sad breakage, I hope they recover from this.
Intriguingly, there are a number of companies that are making a go of shipping cargo on sailing ships across the ocean and have been since at least 2015, if not earlier. They appear to be much more viable than in the past because of smaller crew sizes due to modern riggings, container shortages, and wildly fluctuating fuel prices.
Yes. It is beginning to look like the future.
Thank's Roger, we missed your vídeos.
Thanks Roger, I,ve been looking forward to this video for a while. I think any vessel powered by the wind deserves a future. I hope you can bring us a film of her back in action again soon.
Please keep us posted on progress with Grayhound !
Lovely video Roger, sad it should end the way it did and hopefully Greyhound is now repaired and working again albeit under new ownership. Thanks for sharing. Andy UK
I just love all of Rogers videos and I haven't got a boat.
It would be Kool to get more traditional sailboats together for fun!
Long live the “Grayhound”.
Really enjoyed this. Thanks uploader.
Enjoyed this video, thanks.
Am interested in your view of how it came about that the bowsprit failed.
Great to see the story has a happy ending Roger - the tone at the start was so unlike your normal videos we were a little concerned where it would end. Phew ! Thanks for sharing another of your remarkable videos. Kind regards, Gavin & Amanda
Good to have you back. Look forward to more
Tough sailing to snap a bow spirit, have a look at Sail Cargo and their ship building program. Brave folks.
Fascinating story, well told as always. Lovely camera work. Thank you
Thank you for putting this on, these old wooden ships can last about forever with the right maintenance. It's wood, get out the bad piece and make a new one. We used to live in Grenada and would see a Dutch Sail cargo ship come in, Tres Hombres. It does a regular scheduled circuit around the Atlantic carrying fair trade goods. They use a volunteer crew, which speaks to the profitability of the operation, but I bet they have no problem getting volunteers! They have a website, just type in Tres Hombres and it comes up as fairtransport.
Anyway, I hope they get Greyhound back in operation at a profit!
Bad news but with a bit of luck sins no one got hurt. Hope everything going for the new owners and they get her back in the game.
Greetings,, Kitty.
Very much enjoy your commentary and spirit!
What a great video Roger!
Quite an adventure, great initiative. This should be done with many other traits, building, farming, clothes making.. ..all these things accept dentistry. Great film, a joy to watch. Sad the way it ended but good there's a future for the ship.
Roger, I have enjoyed all of your videos, and agree completely with your cruising philosophy. I have one request: to balance the music volume level with your dialogue volume level. The music is always so much louder that I have to lower the volume when it comes on, or get blasted with sound. Please keep producing these wonderful jems, especially the quiet explorations to wild places.
Sound levels are a constant battle. A lot of ambient dialogue is set at 400% - the maximum. Music usually at about 35%. My point is that the actual sound level in the video has to be adjusted by ear, for each and every clip, not by a dialled amount. I think that different speakers also make a difference too. I’m considering getting a pair of headphones for video editing, that may make the monitoring of sound levels easier.
@@RogerRoving Thank you for your reply. The limited video editing I've done as all been in iMovie. The soundtrack is displayed below the film strip, which provides a visual reresentation of audio levels. The view can be zoomed in for selecting a particular section of the audio, and that selection can be manually raised or lowered with your mouse to match the overall level. On the sailing front, I'm planning to swap my plywood outboard skiff that I currently tow behind an Alden yawl for a Francois Vivier Mobic 12.
Hi Roger ... thanks for another fine video. You mentioned wind noise on the video recordings so I just wanted to let you know that I’ve started to use a new camera setup for my sailing videos that’s very effective. The microphone is the Sennheiser MK 2 Elements wind and waterproof microphone which is designed for use with the GoPro Hero 4 camera. It really works well. Hold Fast! John
Thanks John. I’ll look into that.
Welcome back!
OMG what an epic place to live.
I’ll be in Dournanez in november. With the Tres Hombres of Fairtransport. Possibly see/ meet you
We have to do Modern Sail Boats, Ships as Well as we are Capable.
Love these Sail Boats.
Ok,guess my question has been answered having now seen your full video, onwards and upwards ...a good test sail without tragedy , she will now be better than before.!!
Hello Roger, many thanks for this. A very enjoyable video. Grayhound was built close to where we live and we have seen her on the water many times. She is a remarkable boat. I am envious of your new life in Douarenez and wish that we too could escape the politics of the UK. Also, you are completely right to use your public platform to talk about the dangers of climate change and it is unbelievable that there are people in the comments that are still denying the facts of climate change. Thank you for doing so. Someone else recommended, but I will as well, the You Tube video's of Sail Cargo from Costa Rica. They are great video's, great story and a great cause. All best.
Great stuff per usual Roger thanks for sharing!
This video is great. Ik think huge sails will be installed on Cargo ships in the future
Thank fuck you’re back Roger! Been looking forward to your next video for ages!
That was a shame and a catastrophe. Just shows how all the elements of masts and rigging depend on each other. I had been wondering if there would be an up date on the Greyhound; I see the reasons why you held off posting it. Keep well.
Really nice video, but terrible news about Grayhound being sold. I've been following Grayhound since her build and really hoped Marcus and Freya would continue to sail her for many, many years to come. Of course, the foremast and bowsprit are easy repairs, comparatively speaking, so a part of me is happy in the knowledge that Grayhound will continue to sail. I wonder what will become of Marcus and Freya now, though. It must have been heart-wrenching to let Grayhound go after all the work they've put into her.
I think in fact they were ready to move on to a new stage in life.
@@RogerRoving - Fair enough.
enjoyed the story, but if the owners built and started the venture knowing they would never be able to compete with powered vessels and still went forward - certainly their pockets are deep enough to keep her going - repair and put her back in service... to see these ships would strike nostalgia in all who read as a young one about the open seas....certainly a time gone - but maybe the business model changes and they charge for the crew to assist - a working vacation - much like the work on the farm experience...keep us posted
What a sad tale! May heart goes out to those who were disappointed but she will tell some more stories :-)
Love watching you videos and listening to your stories , I live in Douarnenez and would be cool to meet up , I also often see Markus in the water while surfing , keep up the good work
Hi Kevin. It’s sad the bars aren’t open and we can’t meet for a pint at the Bar à Tribord.
@@RogerRoving I'll keep an eye out for you on the port for a socially distanced chat , lovin all your videos
You wouldn’t necessarily need to pay a living wage because being on the ship includes room and board (meals and lodging are included). This means that wages could be much less provided the crew do not also need to maintain land based shelter for families, and this without being exploitative.
I'm seriously thinking of a trailered cruising dinghy.... I live at Josselin and a dinghy that I can park up at home and sail in the gulf would suit me fine. Very rusty though, I'll need lessons at Vannes.
I’m very sad that Grayhound has gone away. She was an unmissable spectacle. I remember the first time I saw her, from the beach on St Martin in the Isles of Scilly. What on Earth was that? I thought she must be one of the big French Luggers, until I did some research at home. The videos of her construction are phenomenal.
Peter Wynn b
Nice film, love traditional boats, good to see St Pirans flag
Great Video I really enjoyed it!
First, Hi Roger, hit the like before watching!!!
Wish I could find refuge from the winds of societal change (utter chaos) blowing in the US now. The whole world seems infected with it (along with C-19) so it's wishful thinking.
Have you left your Architecture practice, moved it, or simply retired?
Glad to see another of your videos!
Trying to keep on working from France.
@@RogerRoving
Oh, that cannot be easy. Best of luck to you and yours and I hope you avoid the virus.
Are those masts heavy enough?,I live down in New Zealand and thinking that would be a delight to sail down here around our waters.Guess some one would know how she would perform?
Hi ,, great to have you back Roger ,,, if you are in Douarnenez be great for Liz my Mrs and I to buy you a coffee one day ? We live just up the road -
Why not? DM me on Facebook.
Not on Facebook desole R pfff ,,,
Tried you on Instagram
And I would like to be a part of it !
Really enjoy your videos and stories. At 6:17-18 I notice the ship which must be a Norwegian "Jakt" or Hardangerjakt? Do you know?
She’s a Norwegian cargo ship, typical of those that used to visit Douarnenez in the C19th. www.port-musee.org/
Nice video thanks
This is why you don‘t mess around with the Bay of Bizcay.
question< why are commercial boats still made of wood. our local sport fishing boat here is also wood.
really interesting roger, strangley enough marcus and freya were looking into buying my wood in cornwall! before i moved to brittany, by the way i run a woodmizer in brittany
Weirdly, motorships at sea don’t even really make money at present either.
Nice music.
Hello Roger, are you familiar with grain de sail? Its a chocolate and cafe company based in Morlaix that has seen exponentiel growth over the last few years. They are currently buiding an aluminium sailing cargo yacht to transport french wine to new york their chocolate and coffee back to France.
The yacht looks like its got all the mod cons, thinking about what you mentioned about the viablility of sail cargo in your video, i'm wondering what the rationale behind Grain de sail is, i've not yet been to their shop but it perhaps i should.
their chocolate is really good by the way. graindesail.com/
Renault are talking of building a sailing ship to take new cars across the Atlantic to the US.
Hi Rodger, here is a link to Sail Cargo that Malcolm mentioned.
m.ruclips.net/video/tErMzyWDclk/видео.html
Cheers.
Rather than going back to sail, going forward to technologies like micro-nuclear propulsion is a more likely scenario.
Except that every nuclear submarine the U.K. has ever built is still laid up rotting away, because no one has worked out what to do with their old reactors.
Very cool ship, too bad it broke
Keep your fingers out of the lense.
Lens.
Another enjoyable video, even though tinged with sadness. An understandable attempt to escape to a more liberal society, but I don't think there IS a refuge from the tentacles of the corrupt, diseased global corporate infestation.
please shortly tell us why you bought in france - the short politics - not that this would need any reason - who would not want a coastal home in france...
great ships, love it
climate change what was once manmade global warming, the models predicted it, but reality was something other, so they changed the name and are still mad about co2, withs is life, great moment we’re living!
While "climate change scientists" continue to steadfastly ignore any evidence that space weather (including sun spot activity) has a direct impact on our weather.
Stephen Burnage yes, your absolutely right
We’ve had firm evidence of greenhouse warming from CO2 and other gases for at least a hundred years. Amazingly, there are still people who deny the science.
@@RogerRovingI am sorry but even the most cursory glance at our planets geological history (or Greenland or Antarctic Ice core records) demonstrates that we live, and have always lived, in a highly dynamic (if not positively unstable) environment. The process of understanding the relationship between cyclical sun spot activity (space weather); the cyclicality of the earths eccentric orbit and periodic ice ages / warming periods; seismic activity etc. is in its infancy and many responsible scientists are diligently working on exploring these questions. Amazingly, there are still people who think it is OK to dismiss such external factors and are instead content to jump to the conclusion that man made CO2 is the sole factor. Science should be about the pursuit of truth, not the repetition of propaganda.
Roger Barnes ha, yes, its amazing, but there is as reason. Nowadays we have two kinds of science. The science about things we see and thing we measure in nature (cities included), and the science that believes in computer models. The latter is the science you believe in.
Probably the ugliest boat ever built .
There are beautiful classics , gaffers, schooners, cutters and punts.
Then there's greyhound , built in a shed on a mudbank, looking like two arse ends of wrecks stuck together with three miss matched telegraph poles all akimbo.
What a thoroughly unpleasant and unnecessary comment.
@@mikefule330
Whats more unpleasant is that it was built using donations, from any and every source, including decent working class local boat owners , as a historic project .
Then a small setback ( in the world of wooden boats ) and its sold off and the money pocketted .
Unpleasant indeed
@@peregrinegrace8570 Thank you for taking the time to reply in detail. I have no way of checking or judging your account. You clearly have some knowledge and a strong opinion. Fair enough. However, that doesn't make the boat itself, based on historical plans, look I'd never insult the appearance of someone else's boat, kids or wife because I didn't like the person. I just think it's good that one more tall ship is out there. (I also happen to be a fan of lugsails so perhaps I'm biased.)
It's all romantic nonsense this carrying cargo under sail, I wish the rich posh people with strange hyphenated names would stop pretending that's what they are achieving.
Marcus and Freya hyphenated their names when they got married. If you think they’re posh and rich you really do not know what you are talking about.