Beautiful cashmere carpets. This place served us a cup of tea and gave us a demo/info session on carpet making. Very interesting and amazing to learn the tops of the carpets are handcut.
Big model boat building industry here. The display room we visited had many authentic historial ship models.
Monday, August 6, 2012
One man's art Port Loius
The summit team, on the top with Ann and Barry of Cats Paw IV
Another Le Pouce view, can you see the rock balancing on third peak
View from Le Pouce
Getting closer to Le Pouce summit
Approach to Le Pouce took us thru sugarcane fields
Happy Farmer on his way to market with his produce
Tagish is a 36' Brent Swain design steel sloop with Canadian's, Brian and Dorothy on board. Built using the origami method of folded steel. It has 'keel cooling' using the skeg which holds 10 gallons of cooland/antifreeze like a car and using pump in engine is circulated for cooling. It also uses a dry exhaust for better reliability. So no water brought into boat for engine, no impellors or heat exchangers or sea water strainers to mess up.
The anchor windlass is manual only, with 200' of 5/16 hi test chain and 100ft of 3/4 nylon on the drum which is mounted on deck.
Tagish is named after a lake in the Yukon, Northern Canada where we had a cabin as children.
See 2 short video clips of boat sailing-goto older posts in blog at March 4/2011.