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French Frigate L'Hermione


PIerrick de Badas

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Arrived at Port-Vendres.

Well, the music of Pirates of the Caribbean ... I do not know.
https://youtu.be/YO-vnCFF9Vo

 

Kenan, navigation officer, starboard quartermaster.
https://youtu.be/rNyijwIoP78

 

The popular of l'Hermione? Well, yeah.
https://youtu.be/ENwuU_Kld_4

 

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Here is the video, to my knowledge this is the first time a video about Hermione does not paint an idyllic sail where "everything is beautiful".

- sea sickness
- almost crushed fingers
- a fore-braces that gets stuck in the night with many wind
- a jib difficult to bring back
- Fatigue, doubt to go up to tighten the mainsail and the pains.

The "real life" sailing. Away from the postcards.
An eighteenth century rigging with the enormous requirement that it implies for the sailors, from the commander to the topman.

https://www.tf1.fr/tf1/sept-a-huit/videos/a...l-hermione.html

But it's fantastic to a live this !!!

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In 2019 l'Hermione leaves for the Channel. After the great French arsenals of Brest and Toulon, the £ 12 frigate goes to Cherbourg.

Here is a first planning of the navigation of 2019:
April 27, 2019: Departure from Rochefort -> La Rochelle / La Pallice (for a dry dock)
May 5-9: Cherbourg
May 11-12: Dieppe (to be confirmed)
May 14-16: Ouistreham
May 23-25: Saint-Nazaire
June 4-6: Rives-en-Seine
June 7-16: Armada of Rouen (big meeting of sailboat)

Then the return

https://www.hermione.com/actualites/2015/20...ie-liberte.html

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2 hours ago, maturin said:

Leave it to a former NA player to make better L'Hermione videos than the professional PR team:

https://www.youtube.com/user/69buick350/videos?sort=dd&flow=grid&view=0

Ryan is a friend. He is Canadian. He helped the NA developers some time ago. Besides, it was on the forum that I knew him and we ended up aboard the l'Hermione! We sailed together in 2018 :)

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After a night anchorage in Falmouth Bay in 2016, we cross the Channel to go to Saint-Malo.

We just took a reef in the spritsail and a big container ship crosses us from the front.

I am at the top left, I leave the spritsail to climb on the mast of bowsprit to return on the deck :)

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@Surcouf On the wonderful pics and vids you kindly posted here, the red paint used on the replica of L'Hermione looks very light (French would say 'flashy', 'clair') compared to the red ochre that can be seen on some paintings and on Boudriot's books (see spoiler). When Boudriot talks about colors of the XVIIIth century French paint schemes, he uses the French term 'terne' (dull in English ?), except, of course, for the Azure ('bleu azur') when it is used and the Naples yellow that imitates gold.

(btw, you who sail her will be able to tell us if there's any difference between the reds on the pics and on the RL ship.)

My question : from what you know, is the red of the replica the same color as the one on the original one ? How did the rebuilders choose this red (contemporary evidence, personal preference...) ? Was there big differences between the reds used on XVIIth century ships, depending on shipyards or whatever ? Are there contemporary paintings showing light red ?

As you may know, I'm interested in this subject. Any info would be welcome.🙂

Thx for your contribution on this thread.

 

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