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Meanwhile, at the shop ... Follow (almost) live what goes on in our lair of Clairoix. The English version of these "shop news" was discontinued as of the 29th of April, 2009, but it's still live and kicking in French. |
Four Skerries at the "Route du Sable 2010" Warm welcome and faultless organisation by the Route committee for this sixth edition, in which four Skerries were taking part, along with forty other small boats on the lower part of the river Aulne.... |
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Record attendance on ArwenMarine.com In May 2010, 105 509 pages were called on our website. It's the first time since we are online that the 100 000 mark is broken ! Many thanks to all of you ! |
Arwen Marine was at the "Fête du Nautisme" 2010 I have shown two boats at the Cité des Batelliers in Longueil-Annel, on 5 and 6 June. |
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Launching "Zatoïchi" Stéphane just tried his new SailRig under sail. His blog tells the story from the beginning, in August 2008. |
World record attendance at the first Skerries meeting in France Perfect weather for this first Skerry get-together on the Lac d'Orient, near Troyes, in central France. |
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New: Your kit in "Accompanied Build"! You are consumed with the desire to build your own boat from one of our kits but hesitate to start by yourself: we now have the solution for you! |
Prices are down on our finished boats! We need room at the shop: check out our new low prices on a few "demo" boats. |
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Sea trials for a Shearwater 16 in Normandy Genest launched his Shearwater 16 at Criel, near Le Tréport, on the Channel. |
Launching the PassageMaker "Pélican" in Quiberon André and Françoise proceeded with the first trials of their PassageMaker in the Bay of Quiberon. |
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A Chester Yawl is launched in Paimpol We proceeded to the launch and first sea trials of a brand new yawl equipped with a Piantedosi Row-Wing in Paimpol on 20 March 2010. |
New kit : The Cradle Boat is an adorable cradle based on a half size reduction of our lovely Eastport Pram. |
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Your publicity here! Indeed, why not? You do have a big fat advertising budget and want to spend a lot of money so that the world knows it. Do it here! |
Arwen Marine was at "Nautic Expo", the Paris boat show, from 5 to 13 December 2009.
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Not one, not two, but three Eastport Prams! Loïc is a grand-father who is not too hot about his little kids spending all their free time on their game console: he drafted them into a boat building project! |
A Youyou is launched on the Odet Jacques built a Youyou from one of our kits and just launched it near Quimper. |
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A Skerry in Basque country! Jean built a sailing Skerry from a kit near Biarritz and he just proceeded with her sea trials on the lake of Soustons. |
Trials of a Wood Duck 12 near Hamburg Reinhold just completed his Wood Duck 12 from plans in the North of Germany, between Hamburg and Lübeck. |
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Are you scaled? Jean-Claude is currently finishing to build a take-apart PassageMaker near Lausanne, but just have a look at one of his previous boats... |
ALL ABOUT EPOXY!!! Why is it so hard to find clear information about epoxy and its use? Arwen Marine decided to tell you all about it! |
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Christening a Skerry in Carantec Ronan just christened his Skerry "Coriolis" in Carantec, with friends and family. |
"Sea" trials of a Mill Creek 16.5 in Vendée Eric built a Mill Creek 16.5 from a kit in Vendée and just launched it in his swimming poll, while building a SailRig from plans to add on it. |
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Festival de Loire Great weather and large crowds in Orléans from 23 to 27 September, we were there to find out what is was all about, along with Anouket, Ludovic's Skerry and our Doris 12. |
Launching a PassageMaker The weather was sunny with a nice breeze on the lake of the Cercle de Voile de Touraine on 12 September for the trials of the first PassageMaker built by Arwen Marine... |
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New page : the Legal framework on recreational boating in France We tried to "digest" current regulation about recreational boating to make it easier to understand. See the page about regulations |
Your publicity here! Indeed, why not? You do have a big fat advertising budget and want to spend a lot of money so that the world knows it. Do it here! |
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"Stitch and Glue" what about it? Here is a full new page to explain all about the building technique, all in French. Exclusive photos and amazing revelations!!! |
New "Second Hand" page I build a number of kits in order to translate their building manual, to try the boat or as a demo, like I did at Brest and at the Semaine du Golfe. These boats are for sale... |
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Launching a PassageMaker in Etel Franck launched the PassageMaker which he built from a kit in two weeks, on 28 August. |
A Chesapeake 17 LT in Ile-de-France Sébastien built a Chesapeake 17 LT in the Paris area, and he tried it this summer in several very different places. |
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A Chester Yawl on the Rance Patrick built a Chester Yawl to roam the river Rance, between Dinan and the Channel. As you can see on this picture, it is possible to motor with the Yawl. |
A Shearwater 17 Hybrid in Caen Thierry launched his beautiful kayak in Caen on 27 July.
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Sea trials of the Doris 12 We took the Doris 12 to Brittany for sea trials. We were blessed with bad weather and strong winds... |
Launching a sailing Eastport Pram in the Bay of Somme Pierre launched his Eastport Pram "Pti Piejo" on 1st June on the bay of Somme. |
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Semaine du Golfe Arwen Marine was at the semaine du Golfe (Morbihan week in English), a gathering of classical craft in the privileged setting of the gulf. |
Christening the sailing Skerry "O'Taquet" Denis launched his Skerry "O'Taquet", on 16 May at Ile d'Olonne, in Vendée, on a ... not so nice day. |
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Trials of the Skerry "Anouket" Ludo launched his Skerry "Anouket" on the Lac d'Orient, on 1st May.
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Launching a Shearwater in Ploumanach Christophe built a beautiful Shearwater 16 from plans. He launched it in Ploumanach on 7 April 2009. |
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Launching the Annapolis Wherry at Coz Castel, at the mouth of the Trieux river, on the 2nd of April, 2009
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New address Arwen Marine is at last moving (closer) to the sea! By 5.7 km, to be precise... We stay on the banks of the river Oise, near the city of Compiègne, now in Clairoix.
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A dory kit at last! A 17-foot dory kit, using the patented "Lapstitch™" lapstrake building technique, will soon be available.
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Your advertising here! Why not indeed? You do have a big fat advertising budget and you want to spend a lot of cash so that everyone knows it. Call quickly to grab our most expensive space!
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New Boat Here is the brand new "PocketShip", whose prototype was launched last spring...
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All our prices are now including freight costs ! |
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Sea trials of the Eastport Pram at Coz Castel, on the mouth of the Trieux river, October 2008 |
Boating on the river Aisne We seized the opportunity of this last day of summer to try the Jimmy Skiff under oar along with the Skerry. |
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A Sassafras 16 is launched in Alsace, early September 2008 Un autre client vient d'achever la finition de son Sassafras 16 et de le lancer en Alsace ! |
A Chester Yawl is launched at Etables-sur-Mer (Côtes-d'Armor) A customer of Arwen Marine's just completed the building of his Yawl form a complete kit. Congratulations for completing a fine boat! |
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Arwen Marine was at the Grand Pavois boatshow in La Rochelle |
First sail in France for the Jimmy Skiff ! On August 30, 2008, we proceeded with the Jimmy Skiff's "pre-launching.
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Arwen Marine's website hits rise by 37% between July and August 2008 ! You visited 17445 times to display 63176 pages between August 1 and 31, which is 3.62 pages per visit. Thank you very much for your interest and fidelity ! |
To read right now (in French, good exercise): A big feature in the "Chasse-Marée" about Arwen Marine, the Skerry, CLC kits, etc... At the newsstand since August 1st. French only, sorry.
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Pictures of the Skerry at Bréhat, after Brest 2008 On our way back from Brest, we stopped for a couple of days in Bréhat, and it has been of course an occasion to try a bit more extensively the Skerry and take a few pictures under sail. |
Arwen Marine was at Brest 2008 ! We took part in the "Maritime heritage" village, where we demonstrated live how it is possible today to build easily, thanks to our kits, lovely and very usable boats which are worthy to integrate our maritime heritage. |
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Launching the first Skerry built by Arwen Marine! On June 10, we went to the Trieux estuary, on Brittany's northern shore to proceed with the Skerry's sea trials. We had first launched the Skerry on March 27 of this year. The Skerry is a light rowing-sailing boat. |
Arwen Marine is in "Voile Magazine" of April 2008
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Official visit at the shop, on March 20: The President of the Chambre des Métiers et de l'artisanat de l'Oise and the Sous-Préfet of Compiègne came to visit Arwen Marine. |
Press release of 26 January 2008 : Arwen Marine and Chesapeake Light Craft. |
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An article in the "Courrier Picard " of thursday 13 december 2007 about Emmanuel Conrath
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We were at the La Rochelle "Grand Pavois" boatshow, 19 to 24 september 2007. |
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« The Conrath, two brothers made of the same wood »Two articles about Gilles and Emmanuel Conrath in "Ouest-France" of 24 and 25 may 2007 Read on
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« Wooden Boats are dear to the heart of the Conrath brothers »A story in "Le Télégramme" of 24 october 2006 about the Conrath brothers Read on
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