Wooden yacht Australia
"Better than mountains can be only sea ..." - so say stern men in vests, thoroughly salted, like sardines, sea winds and blinding provyalennye waves reflected from the sun. Still happy - because they are in the open ocean off the coast of Australia, in the height of summer, meet one of the largest maritime festivals in the Southern Hemisphere: Australian Festival of wooden ships.
Wooden yachts and red sails: Festival in Tasmania
Sailing vessels - this is true love sailors all over the world under sail only in alliance with the wind and waves, a person can feel like a real sailor and part of the elements, and not its conqueror. That's why it was impossible not to arrange after wooden boats festival - off the coast of Tasmania, who saw the great captains Abel Tasman and James Cook.
Festival wooden boats mysterious shore
This festival - Biennale: in other words, it is held every two years. In 1994, the largest port of Tasmania - Hobart - came into the ocean 180 wooden boats, and this was the beginning of a tradition. The last time, in 2009, 500 ships were already, in what we have seen this year's list is already 482 applications - and in fact before the event remained another week. Such popularity of the festival proves that Australia - really country seafarers.
Festival wooden yachts lull
Sailors - and ships. Still, the focus of the participants and guests of the festival not only sailors and their beautiful ships. Proud and slender, like gulls, they are carried on the sail-wings on green waves, gently swaying on the soft breast of the ocean. Some of these boats are more expensive than the big-class ships - but that's not the price, and the pristine beauty of the fragile wood and fabric, defying storms and storms.
Wooden boat festival in Australia
And though the sea is not forgiving, even it submits strong hands and brave hearts of sailors. No matter how far they swam, they are always waiting at home burning bright guiding star lighthouse. Festival wooden ship - this is one of those holidays that make us imagine a burning star of the southern seas, black nights and bright days, azure waves and wind tart - and drink to the bottom for those who are at sea.
Festival wooden ships in Hobart
