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Mea Culpa, besides for mispelling Jolie Brise, I was mistaken about where she was built. Jolie Brise was actually built in France. Jolie Brise won quite a few early Fastnet Races, including the 1929, which I believe was the race in which Halloween (later known as Cotton Blossom IV) set the course record which was not broken until Ted Turner's Tenacious broke the record during the ill fated 1979 regatta.
There is one case that appears to have a model of Halloween posed next to Jolie Brise (not to scale since Halloween was roughly 76 feet and Jolie Brise was 56 or so). The model of the lateen rigged workboat with the classic Portuguese eye at the bow is very similar to the working watercraft of Genoa Italy and the Ligorian coastal workboats widely used at least as far south as La Spezia area.
Jeff
Last edited by Jeff_H : 10-29-2007 at 06:10 PM.
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