The music playing with these photographs of the Grandcopaise is an old sailors' song, VALPARAISO
To all the people who generously give their time and talents to keep the Grandcopaise sailing
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La Grandcopaise was restored by the ASSOCIATION DES VIEUX GREEMENTS TORBOUAI DU BESSIN. This fishing bark was used along the Normandy coast and near the English coast in the Bay of TORBAY.
Designed in 1934, the boat was built only after World War II, in 1949, in a Cherbourg boatyard. As the FRANCK-YANNICK, it sailed until 1988, when it was sold as a pleasure boat. Soon after, it was abandoned and it sank in the harbor here in GRANDCAMP.
To save this rather unique boat, the ASSOCIATION DES VIEUX GREEMENTS TORBOUAI DU BESSIN was formed in 1990. The town of Grandcamp-Maisy, which had bought it for a symbolic Franc, gave it to the association.
In 1993, the restoration was complete. Renamed "La GRANDCOPAISE", it was certified fit to sail.
La Grandcopaise is about 50 feet long and 15 wide, with a tonnage of 21. The main mast rises over 56 feet over the deck and carries a 1020 square feet mainsail, a 350 sq. ft. jib, a 210 sq. ft staysail and 3 other smaller sails.
Good Sailing
Aboard La Grandcopaise
