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French Frigate L'Hermione


PIerrick de Badas

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I have been following the L'Hermione story since I accidentially stumbled upon her in 2014. Been watching their vids with my kids ever since :)

 

She really is an impressive, magnificently executed project and a real beauty to watch.

 

Looking forward to see her ingame- and mayhaps in real life some day!

 

If I were French I would be proud of this ambassador! As I'm not I'm struck with admiration nonetheless  :)

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Anyone heard about plans for the 2016 season?

Maturin,

Travel from Rochefort to the port of La Rochelle June 4 for the fairing in dry dock for 15 days.

Three times three days of training for future topmen.

From April 29 to May 1

From 06 May to 8 May

From May 14 to May 16

First period of naviguation:

La Rochelle / Saint Malo from June 18 to July 5

Second period of naviguation:

Saint Malo / Rochefort from 05 to 23 July.

Participation of maritime festivals of Brest.

I do not know yet all the stops cities

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They have just today launched a game on Virtual Regatta using l'Hermione. You sail her from Yorktown to Brest using actual wind conditions and have to manage supplies:

http://www.virtualregatta.com/en/index_brest2016.php

Hooray!

 

The sail settings are confusing as all hell, though.

 

And I see that she maxes out at around 7 knots. The mystery of what makes a ship go 13 kts continues.

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The one thing amazing me most : Why isn't Hermione a movie star yet ?

 

I read the reason why there is no sequel to "Master and Commander" eg was the cost of building ship replicas. 

 

Now we have a perfect seagoing and beautifull one here , so where is the movie ?

Movies usually prefer to purchase old broken down old vessels so they can have a free hand with them. And Hermione has her own mission, makes her own movies, and keeps a busy schedule.

 

I'm sure they'll let film crews on board for documentary film B-roll, if not a feature film production.

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Maybe it will happen. But l'Hermione is not made for movies. No movies are made in the USA on the frigate USS Constitution and USS Constelation. No more on HMS Victory. It's the same for l'Hermione.

But we do not know, maybe one day ...

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*dreams of sails that actually look like cloth/canvas in Naval Action one day*

 

The game is stunningly beautiful of course, but how absolutely wonderful would this be if they filled, fluttered, collapsed, snapped and hung like real sails?

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