mr spanton":18owgcqo said:I just saw your other post first :lol:
How DO they get the clinker planks just the right length AND with just the right angles to butt against the front post AND overlapped evenly all along??
What amazes me is that the norse sailors crossed the North Sea in those little craft :shock: 8) then sailed up relatively shallow estuaries to find farmlands to settle, the ships could go well in both environments. To this day theres dozens of place names ending in "by", kexby, Skidby, Grimsby etc they are originally viking settlements
La Morue is Halibut oui?? BIG diamond shaped flatfish? Where I was born in East Yorkshire, (Hull) there used to be a huge fishing fleet there too, they used to go for halibut Cod Herrings around Greenland, Iceland etc.
I bet you do a mean bouillabase :wink:
I guess they do marvellous "speed boat" well suited to raiding coastal villages. They used to come up rivers in Brittany too. we have a purpose built castle a couple of miles from where i am from. it was built there on a very strategic point to stop them comming any further..
"La roche jagu"it's called. those bloody vickings !
you are right, morue probably is Halibut..but my bouillabaise is non existant, being a south of France dish !