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Notre-Dame de Rumengol

Notre-Dame de Rumengol is a cargo boat, built at the Keraudren shipyard at Carmaret in 1944 on behalf of a shipowner of Le Faou, in the Bay of 12 Brest. Apart from its engine, it is endowed with traditional sails, which allow for saving on fuel. Once responsible for transporting wood, Algerian wine, onions and cauliflower from Roscoff, strawberries from Plougastel, it was later used for dredging and the transport of sand. Its model is shown at the quay at low tide, in the process of unloading its sand. 

Alain Gerbault

The Alain Gerbault is a store ship from Lampaul in Finistère, built at the Keraudren shipyard in Quelern in 1929. It is powered by sail, without engine, and is representative of the generation of boats preceding the Notre-Dame de Rumengol. You see it here in the process of unloading sand, lying at the coast at low tide. No winch here, the work is done by shovel! 

Loire barge

The Loire upstream of Angers is fairly shallow and as such is suitable for propulsion by poles pushing the base of small flat-bottomed vessels. This prevents them from running aground on sandbanks or rocks. These barges are used to transport goods or materials along the waterways and are comparable in size to canal boats. Their flexibility and solidity stem from their structure, which does not contain any stiffening materials. They are rigged with a movable mast and a large square sail whose surface area can amount to 250 m2.