Chers tous,

Certains ont peut-être remarqué que nous avons un nouveau membre (CAMEL) qui nous vient de Tchéquie où il a entrepris la remise à niveau d'un vieux Corsaire qu'il utilise pour la croisière et le fun.
Dans un MP, il m'explique qu'il a fait refaire des voiles neuves l'an dernier mais qu'il trouve cela un peu juste et regrette de ne pas les avoir fait faire plus grandes!!!
Un gaillard qui en veut !!!
Il me demande des photos d'installation de sangles de rappel et des propositions d'installation de trapézes...
Hi "Camel", some pictures of two installations of balancing belts. We don't have some for trapézium, but Alain Legal will send you a graphic for YORC 5.50 model...



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See you later, alligator!!!

Hello, Camel!

Can you give us some precisions about your Corsaire.
Builder?
Year?
Story?
What way and adventure to be now in Czech Republic?

Please a picture?

Best regards.

Franck

Je vous mets en ligne le dernier message de "Camel" car il est trés intéressant pour l'histoire du Corsaire. Jean-Jacques Herbulot a donc eu des contacts avec des voileux de l'ancienne Tchécoslovaquie. Il en aurait découlé au moins une construction amateur dans ce pays. Amusant non?
Je vous rappelle, qu'il y a quelques mois j'avais retrouvé les traces de Corsaire (une dizaine fabriqués par un chantier à Dakar, au Sénégal, dans la seconde partie des années 60)

Camel a écrit:

Hallo Franck, thanks for interesting pictures. Today paintwork on Camel is finishing and after I will be able to put back all fittings I´ĺl send you some photos. You may be surprised how diferent are corsaires in Cze from your racing hi tech boats:-). But it could be interesting. Other member of our club had been mailing with JJ Herbulot and after that he buit his corsaire himself. So its posible that I could send pictures of two boats:-) Yours sincerely Jaromir

Amitiés à tous.

Franck.

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"Essayer" c'est déjà envisager l'échec, il n'existe pas d'autre alternative que "Réussir" F C

Hello Camel,

Vive la Grande Europe de la plaisance!!!

Hi Andrea, Salut Franck and all corsaire sailors,
I am stil in hurry to finish the boat and everyday it looks it could be tomorow:-). Attached you can see some pictures from workshop. Although they are poor kvality, (made by mobile phone) you can see reflexes in the paint. Some fittings arent on their places like motor holder, windows...... Today it realy looks that in two days Camel will sail again. With some sailing photos I´ll add story and something more.

Good wind and more than one feet of water below the keel.
Jaromir

Ma parole! C'est un J.O.G.!

Hello Camel!!!

Good job... Our friend Didier, the oldest Corsaire knowed (n°7, 1954), have a real observation: your Corsaire is a rare Junior Offshore Group.
It looks very nice and a good condition...
Just a question: the front ladder is removable???
How old is it , from wich builder???
We wait for pictures on the water...


Best regards.

franck

Hello, its realy corsaire J.O.G, but I am not sure if it is so rare:). I have never seen another type of corsaire by my own eyeball, but here in Czech repuplic its normal when you talk about corsaire that you mean corsaire J.O.G. Thanks to strange circumstances, yesterday I heared that before about twenty years, on our lake there were one "normal" corsaire, but then turned to keel version and sold away.

This coutry was under control of comunistic party and secret police for a long time and many normal things were prohibited. For people, there were a few ways how to spend some free time. On was building his own cottage, and another boat . The reason was similar-everyone inteligent enought wanted to go somewhere, without control of police and far away of comunistic party newspapers (one of three published here). For my family sailing was inseparable part of life. My grandfather have a belouga in sixties, sailing also in Adriatic, than caranan. After hull of homebulided caranan was sold he strated to build a house (someone says he wanted to build bigger boat there ) and when everyone realized, that there is no living without sailing, they bought smaller boat to satisfy their souls.

Story of Camel begins in Brno (second city after our capital) where plywood hulls were produced to finish it at home. In 1983 Camels hull were transported to Prague, where the first owner made cover of glass epoxi composite to reinforce whole construction, finished interier and prepare boat for sailing. After one or two years of sailing he realized that boat of this size isnt enought and sold Camel to my granfather. This builder fabricated more than hundred od GRP boats by famous Polish desighter Andrej Skrzat, sailing on every water in ex Czechoslovakia, in late 80es and 90es..

My father and grandparetns were improving this boat in those years where I was a small boy (grown in corsaire ) but since he started his own bussines he didnt have much time so Camel was sailing less and less. But I foud out that sailing is as part of me and I started to sail on cadet dinghy, not to race but to train myself for corsaire. When daddy saw that I am intedrested in this sport he bought partly finished big boat with idea of family cruising....

But how time goes and money flow to his boat he realized that corsaire must be enough for me and my brother. I can say that corsaire is more than enough for me. I realy like that boat . I think this is the main reason for me to work on Camel.

And a short story is born:)

Best regards and sorry for my english

Jaromir

And a leder is removable, but usefull for cruising and anchoring in rocky bays, where you can conect a gangway to it.

Hello Camel.

Thanks for your lot of pictures and the no so short story...
Your sécurity balconies are very nice and looks as Yorc's (fot the back ones). Yorc balconies are composite made. Who made your inox balconies and what the cost?

So long.

Ahoy Franck,
balcony are other improvement attached in this season-in the past there were something big, hight, horryble and fencing whole stern. After I was smashed in regatta by some catalina that construction was in the shape that didnt give us any chance to rapair. So we decided to make it small, simple=beauty and strong enought .
My father is running small building company specialized to work with inox so sailors sometimes ask him to make some motor holder, reling or other fittings. This was work for family so we didnt talk about price.

Bye
Jaromir

Camel in home club marina

Once more on the water!!!