En todas las casas cuecen fabes...

[Nick]

... y en la mia a calderaos...

Siempre hablamos de lo mal que cuidamos de nuestro patrimonio naútico y ponemos como ejemplo a otros paises de nuestro entorno en lo que a promocion y conservacion del patrimonio naútico se refiere. Pues bien como los tiempo no son buenos para casi nadie, en esos paises ejemplarizantes las cosas empiezan a "hacer agua" así que este precioso Brixham trawler construido en 1923 se ira al desguace si de aquí a finales del mes de Abril no se reunen fondos suficientes para acometer su restauracion...

Malos tiempos para la lírica.

Race to save historic Brixham trawler from the breakers' yard







A BATTLE to save the last remaining Brixham sailing trawler has only weeks to stop her being broken up.
The iconic red-sailed 78ft Torbay Lass is tied up and rotting at Tilbury Docks and will be scrapped if money is not found to save her by the end of April.

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   Torbay Lass

She is the last of the five remaining historic trawlers which has not been brought home to Brixham and restored.
Built in the port by R. Jackman & Sons in 1923, she fished under sail locally until 1938.

Since the 1950s she has been in the Thames and used by a sail training charity under the name Kenya Jacaranda.
However, she was withdrawn from service because of her deteriorating condition and she sank at her mooring in Tilbury docks in 2010, but was refloated.
The charity which runs it has been unable to maintain her and the port authorities at Tilbury, where she is kept, have said she must be removed by the end of April.
Now a last-ditch campaign has been launched to save her from the breaker's yard.
In recent years the other four in her class, the Leader, Provident, Vigilance and Pilgrim, have been saved, restored and brought back to the town, along with the smaller class Golden Vanity.
All six are in the National Historic Fleet, the 200 most high priority vessels in terms of maritime heritage.
The charity which is the vessel's current owner has appealed for help to Save Torbay Lass.
Mick Shirley, chairman of the charity, says: "We are desperate. She will be lost. It would be wonderful if she could be moved back to Devon and her survival assured."
The campaign is being supported by the Conservative MP for Totnes Sarah Wollaston, and Torbay mayor, Gordon Oliver.
"Torbay Lass is an iconic part of Britain's maritime heritage," said Struan Coupar of the Trinity Sailing Foundation.
"It seems inconceivable she should be lost without one final effort being made to save her.
"Saving her and restoring her to seaworthy condition will be a major undertaking, costing many hundreds of thousands of pounds."
The Brixham sailing trawler was a legendary class of working boat, the foundation for a vast British trawling industry that grew up in the 19th century. The design, developed in Devon, became the standard for deep sea trawling throughout Europe.


Read more: http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/Race-sa...#ixzz2QubNu22r

El último barco de similares características, de los 6 u 8 que quedan a flote, restaurado fué el Pilgrim. Un trabajo espectacular, que tuve la suerte de poder visitar, realizado por el astillero de Butler & Co. en el sur de Inglaterra.

Salud!