In the wake of Felucca Nuovo Mondo discover that it was not the only boat sailing across the Atlant

Due to the previous post about the arrival of the lateen in the American Pacific coast, Vicente Garcia-Delgado sent me some photos on the same theme, with the order to continue pulling the thread, which I try to do in this new post. The photos, taken by him during a trip to San Francisco a few years ago, played several track container panels that are in the facilities of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, in the area of Fisherman's Wharf. The panels with old photos, track container inform the public about the fleet of fishing feluccas Italians, who moored in those springs.
Among the photos there are a couple of Nuovo Mondo, a replica of one of these feluccas built in 1987 and later traveled to Europe twice, in 2000 to participate in the festival Brest maritime and in 2004 took part in a couple of test circuit Mediterranean lateen. In the photos it looks like you are making a new keel, the facilities of the marine park in San Francisco.
Following this thread I found that when the boat came to the Mediterranean, already had a good look for him to heal the wounds made during two years touring the United States and a three-week trip through the Atlantic aboard a merchant ship. The tuning track container was done Giens Peninsula, southern France, home of one of the members of the association Partègue. But behind this there is a story even more interesting: the collaboration between the organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion track container of heritage track container Mediterranean Sea and the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. The details of this relationship, which began precisely in Brest in 2000, can be found on the project page maritime Patrimoine sans Frontières, which was developed track container within the Culture 2000 program, under the umbrella of the European track container Union. track container If you click on the slideshow at the bottom of the page, you will see a presentation that explains what it consisted of exchanges among people and Partègue The seaside park in San Francisco. Specifically, in 2005 several members of the French association traveled to the U.S. city to participate in the construction of the Grace Quan, a replica Chinese junk as it was years ago in the Bay of San Francisco track container prawn fishing. The work was done under the supervision of the last Chinese shrimp fisherman had practiced this type of fishing. Here we are not given anything to generate cross-border projects of this kind, for which there is usually EU funds, such as INTERREG. I think it's a path that would be worth exploring.
In the wake of Felucca Nuovo Mondo discover that it was not the only boat sailing across the Atlantic to America. track container There is another one that did and also browsing! In the book "Leudo di Liguria" Giovanni Panella, read the adventure of Felice Manin, a lute of 15'50 feet, built in 1891, in October 1984 he sailed to Italy in America course, following the Route of Columbus. At the end of January 85 came to San Salvador and then take a trip to the east coast of the United States, culminating in Noya York, in the great naval station on July 4, 1986 to commemorate the centennial of the Statue Freedom, along with 25,000 boats. Imagine a lute as our San Isidro, San Ramon and Rafael-meter, meter-less, or the Balearic Islands, sailing the Hudson River surrounded track container by thousands of ships of all kinds, including a lot of tall ships. The chronicle making Paolo Ajello, the crew Felice Manin in the book panel has its charms, especially when explaining something track container risky maneuver that had to do in the middle of that swarm of boats.
But the end of Felice Manin is a bit sad. In November 1987 it was left to the sun and calm in a dock at the port of Chicago, due to financial difficulties of the owner. The ship deteriorated to the port authority decided that Chicago was that hulk nuisance and should be removed track container from the site occupied. track container The lute seemed then sentenced. But then, in Italy, it started a campaign to save the boat. In La Spezia created the association "Save the Felice Manin," which got a lot of supporters, including the Italian navy. Finally, they could load into a container-ship, track container and on 20 May 2000, fifteen years after having gone to the Americas, the Felice Manin came home. The last thing I know is that it was on a ship