Flobart

The flobart (sometimes written " Flobard ") is a boat of stranding able to float in less than thirty centimetres of water and used for fishing on the coast of opal of Berck to Calais until the end of the 20th century, and in particular to Audresselles and Wissant.

Bearing a name drawn from the Saxon word " Vlot bar" (floating), and built with removable gauges according to a technique developed starting from the Drakkar S Scandinavian, the flobart consists of boards out of wooden of curved and superimposed Orme assembled by covering joints (rivets) out of copper.

With a very broad prow, it can support the shock of the beachcombers at the time of sound déséchouage. The poop punt makes it possible two men to push it with the back in bracket to make it slip on logs posed on the beach.

At the 19th century, it sailed still primarily with the force of the arms of its ten oarsmen, using the back sail only wind. It is only under the Second Empire, with the arrival of the returning drift invented by the Americans, that the flobarts will be able to go up the wind.

Currently, the yachtmen use flobarts out of synthetic fibers and resin, reproducing the form of old the wood flobarts.

One can still see authentic wood flobarts with Audresselles, exposed along the secondary road (street Pierre de Wissant) and to the museum of association " flobarts of both caps" in Wissant.

Primary source

the Voice of North of January 25th, 2006 page 1401, conference of Yves Brogniart.

One finds already a resemblance of the flobarts to the boats of Vénètes (of people of Morbihan) in the Guerre of Gaules, delivers 3, chap. 14, of Caius Jules César: " their hull was much more punt that of our vessels, so that they do not fear to be failed; their prow and their poop were very raised, because the height of the waves and the violence of the storms; the boat was entirely in oak to support the shocks and tirednesses; the cross-pieces, of a foot thickness, were subjugated by iron ankles (" claves") thickness of a inch… "

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