Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Feu Follet"
Photos of the sailing ship:
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Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Sail Brest 2016,
07/2016
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Sail Brest 2016,
07/2016
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Temps Fete Douarnenez 2018,
07/2018
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Temps Fete Douarnenez 2018,
07/2018
Technical data of the sailing ship:
| Name: | Feu Follet |
| Registered port: | Brest |
| Nation: | FRA |
| Type of rigging: | KUTTER |
| Type of ship: | Bawley (Lotsenkutter) |
| Year built: | 1987 |
| Yard: | Pemple, Rochester, GBR |
| Overall length: | 13.20 m |
| Breadth: | 3.70 m |
| Draught: | 1.50 m |
| Sail area: | 60 m2 |
| Ship's hull: | Holz / Wood |
| Power: | 100 PS |
| Engine: | Yanmar |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 23 Apr 2024
- built in 1987 at the Pemple shipyard in Rochester, England, based on the plans of a fishing cutter so-called Medway Bawley, which were common on the English south coast in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- several changes of ownership, owned since 2004 by Didier Petit, who donated it to the French Navy in 2012.
- transfer from Port Médoc/FR to Brest/FR by land and start of a 6-month overhaul.
- another overhaul of the hull and rigging in Brest from October 2018 to mid-January 2019 at the shipyard Chantier du Guip.
- serves to train French cadets and naval officers.
- participation in sailing events as a representative of the French Navy.