Johan Konz
Final Stage
This is a picture of the well known ships graveyard in Camaret-sur-Mer, Brittany, 2014.
Again, I would like to thank everyone for your support, views, faves and comments!
In Brittany and elsewhere there are several beaches and estuaries where old boats and shipwrecks has been left for the last phase of their life cycle. That has little to do with cost-effective disposal. But the former boat owners were used to the old tradition that every boat has a soul and that the demolition of a long-serving boat is bad luck. So the boats are moored for the last time at the beach or the shoreline. From the moment the ships are there, the weather and the tides do the rest: the dismantling of former proud fishing boats. First the paint is peeling off and the rust is spreading everywhere. Than the wood is disappearing. Finally the skeleton remains.
Final Stage
This is a picture of the well known ships graveyard in Camaret-sur-Mer, Brittany, 2014.
Again, I would like to thank everyone for your support, views, faves and comments!
In Brittany and elsewhere there are several beaches and estuaries where old boats and shipwrecks has been left for the last phase of their life cycle. That has little to do with cost-effective disposal. But the former boat owners were used to the old tradition that every boat has a soul and that the demolition of a long-serving boat is bad luck. So the boats are moored for the last time at the beach or the shoreline. From the moment the ships are there, the weather and the tides do the rest: the dismantling of former proud fishing boats. First the paint is peeling off and the rust is spreading everywhere. Than the wood is disappearing. Finally the skeleton remains.