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Jolie Brise is a gaff rigged cutter that was designed as a pilot boat by yacht designer Alexandre Pâris and built by theAlbert Paumelle shipyard in Le Havre . After it was launched , the ship was only used as a pilot boat for a short time, as steam-powered pilot boats began to be used. Jolie Brise was thenusedfor tuna fishing in the Atlantic , as her wide and flat deck was ideal for this.
Commander Evelyn George Martin bought the ship in 1923 and overhauled it thoroughly. In 1925 he won the first Fastnet Race with Jolie Brise as one of seven participants . In 1927 he sold the boat across an ad in the magazine Yachting World to Captain Warren Ferrier and his partner Dr. Brownlow Smith. An engine and a cabin were installed by the new owners at Morgan Giles' shipyard in Teignmouth .
Bobby Somerset, a founding member of the Royal Ocean Racing Club , acquired the boat in 1928. After participating in the Fastnet Race, Bermuda Race and Santander Race several times , he sold it to Lieutenant John Gage four years later. With repeated victories in the Fastnet Race in 1929 and 1930, Jolie Brise is so far the only boat that has won this endurance race three times.
John Gage only kept Jolie Brise for a short time and sold it in 1934 to the American Stanley Mortimer, who mainly had conversions carried out in the lower deck area at a shipyard in Palma . A Gardner diesel engine was also installed in Marseille .
Jolie Brise was then sailed in the Mediterranean and came back to Southampton when the war began , where she was for sale. William Stannard acquired the boat, but it was confiscated by the Royal Navy and stranded in Shoreham during World War II . In 1945 it was bought by a consortium led by Lillian and Jim Worsdell and the name was changed to Pleasant Breeze .
In 1946 the boat was to be transferred to New Zealand , as the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club had offered to buy it when it reached its destination. The trip had to be canceled in Lisbon due to problems. There the boat was bought, repaired and again restored by a consortium led by Luis Lobato. It got its old name back, Jolie Brise . For the next 30 years, Lisbon became the home port. In 1975 it returned to the Solent because of the uncertain political situation in Portugal , 50 years after the first Fastnet Race victory.
In 1977, Jolie Brise was taken over by the Exeter Maritime Museum and International Sailing Craft Association, sold to Dauntsey's School Sailing Club in 2003 and has been used as a training ship ever since.
Jolie Brise in 2012 had the honor, as an outstanding ship during the peak of the honors for Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. In the parade of 1,000 boats on the Thames , the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant to attend. Due to her size, she did not sail within the ship's fleet, but anchored with other yachts at St. Katharine Docks .
literature
- Deep Water Cruising - EG Martin, OUP 1928
- Jolie Brise - Robin Bryer, Secker & Warburg, 1982, ISBN 978-0-436-07181-2
Web links
- Jolie Brise (English)
- Sailing Trivia - The Revival of Pilot Cutter Design
- Yachting Monthly: A legend sails the Atlantic (Kathy Stickland), June 5, 2018 , English
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b History Jolie Brise , Jolie Brise Models, accessed October 9, 2015.
- ↑ A Potted History ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Jolie Brise, accessed October 9, 2015.
