This year’s cultural heritage fleet is bringing along cutting-edge Norwegian marine technology, the best of Norwegian handicraft traditions in addition to two thousand years of fabled shipping history. And all this is loaded on-board more than 20 historic ships which will be docking at the world’s largest maritime festival in the French port of Brest from 13–19 July 2012.
Norway to Brest 2012 – with two thousand years of maritime history as cargo
To Brest 2012: Statsraad Lehmkuhl – one of the world’s most beautiful sailing ships.
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Sailing ships
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Innovation
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Boathouses
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Boatbuilding
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Exhibits
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Ecosystems
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Fishing
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Tradition
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Technology
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Coastal culture
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Research
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Concerts
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Maritime innovation and development
Marine safety, traffic monitoring and environmental preparedness along the coast
See the latest developments in advanced technology developed by the Norwegian Coastal Administration and Kongsberg Norcontrol. Large video screens will allow everyone present to monitor ship movements and receive both local and global information.
Knowledge for a clean and rich ocean
The Norwegian Ocean Research Institute (DNH) is on a quest for knowledge about the marine ecosystems in the Arctic regions. Film of coral reefs, king crab and other bottom fauna in the Barents Sea.
Norwegian coastal culture and handicraft traditions
Handicraft and home industry production from northern Norway: Knitting, felting, weaving, tying and repair of shing nets and the production of tools that were used by Norwegian “ sherman-farmers”. Making of raw hide ropes from seamammal. A tradition from the Viking-age.
Traditional boatbuilding– Geitbåten, Oselver and Nordlandsbåt
A number of boathouses are being set up in the Norwegian Village, where activities will include demonstrations of building traditional Norwegian boats (geitbåt, nordlandsbåt and oselver). Finished boats will be presented alongside the boathouses and in the harbour.
To Brest 2012: Building "geitbåt" - a traditional boat from the west coast of Norway.
The Boat Laboratory
At the Boat Lab at the Norwegian Maritime Museum, we are reconstructing archaeological boat finds. Norway is an important bearer of coastal culture, and the country’s traditional boatbuilders possess extensive knowledge that helps us to understand handicrafts from the Iron and Middle Ages as well as the Renaissance. The Boat Lab will be exhibiting its reconstruction of the Renaissance-era boat Vaaghals (1596) in Brest. At the exhibition we will be linking Norwegian traditions to a number of specific archaeological finds.
20 historic ships and boats
To Brest 2012: The vikingship Gaia, a replica of the Gokstadship, year 890 A.D.
We will be accompanied to Brest by a number of Norway’s proud ships. The festivals in Brest are celebrating their 20th anniversary, and therefore our goal is to set sail for Brest with a total of 20 historic ships and boats.
The ships to be exhibited include: Statsraad Lehmkuhl – one of the world’s most beautiful sailing ships, the schooners Svanen and Anna Rogde, Dyrafjeld, Halsnøybåten – a replica from 300 A.D., Gokstadskipet and Gokstadbåten – Viking ship and boat, copies from the year 890, Barcode 6 – the Nordic region’s oldest “speilbåt” (flat-stern boat) which lay beneath several metres of earthen clay in Oslo for nearly 400 years, Oselvers – Norway’s national boat, Bakkejekta – Norway’s smallest and oldest square sail boat dating from 1750, MS Sjøkurs, former coastal express ship Ragnvald Jarl, Haugefisk – the world’s first auto line fishing vessel built in 1978, the motor cutter Straumingen, and Folkvang – a 100-year-old sailing cutter from the northernmost part of Norway.
Fireworks concert and festival music
Norway’s leading military ensemble – The Royal Norwegian Navy Band – will showcase its wide-ranging repertoire in a series of concerts. They are known for their firework concerts and will provide entertainment during the entire festival featuring orchestras and bands of varying sizes.
To Brest 2012: The Royal Norwegian Navy Band.
Norway to Brest: Leaflet in french and english.
Brest 2012
Every four years, Brest’s large scale festivities attract an extraordinary fleet of some 2000 traditional sailing boats from 30 different countries, from the small Breton fore-masted misainier to the prestigious three-masted barque, from classic yacht to primitive dugout pirogue. This makes the Brest event a maritime festival which is unique in Europe and worldwide ! Read more about the festival in 2012 - Les tonneres de Brest 2012.
Project manager: Tore Friis-Olsen, Phone: 0047 92204874, e-mail: tore@kysten.no.
Forbundet KYSTEN (The Coastal Federation of Norway).