The sea has always been a source generating trades. Sailors, fishermen, teachers boat shipwrights, net makers, modellers boat chinchorreros, sailing master, fisheries workers, trades ... are fundamentally linked to the fishing industry, one of the great pillars of the island's sailfish os economy in the past.
The shipwright sailfish os trace, cut, style and assembles the different parts that make up the structure of wooden boats. Knowledge and experience they have acquired throughout the centuries and that have been passed with the daily work among teachers, artisans and apprentices from around the world, enriching all of this cultural and professional exchange that knows no boundaries.
Today, some of these carpenters as Augustine Jordan (Master Tito and apprentice trained in stroke sailfish os Maestro Vicente), integrated into the Association of Friends of the woodwork Bank, have managed sailfish os to reorient their trade towards the transmission of knowledge and experience residents and visitors.
Augustine offers in his shop in Arrecife, sailfish os training activities in order to pass on their knowledge to future generations and to people who want to build their own wooden boat, also teaches courses in other coastal regions of Spain (Cartagena and Cadiz are some examples ) and is waiting to publish his first book on the traditional path of boats.
Wooden boatbuilding has a long tradition as Augustine teachers keep alive. Set to the Canaries after the discovery of the New World, creating some workshops during the sixteenth century, because sailfish os of the strategic importance of the Canary Islands for commercial traffic between America and Europe, which today we know as "The race of the Indies" in which the Canary Islands so historically participated.
On the island of Lanzarote, we find the first references of this art in the 1790s, becoming office, next to the salted fish industry in the late nineteenth century, but never industrially.
During these years, many young people came to the workshops of carpenters sailfish os to learn the trade, youth were the future teachers, current shipwrights on the island.
We talked about John Tabares, Luis Trujillo, Vicente Dorta (Maestro Vicente), Santiago Gonzalez, Evaristo Gonzalez (Master Tito) ... riverside Carpenters working in different types of boats coming from all maritime regions, in order to put their passion in the service of a unique handcrafted work.
Wooden boats engaged in fishing, or cabotage transport of persons, built by shipwrights and ships on the beaches of our coast. For each of these vessels, their skillful hands carved sailfish os model of the hull, after they traced the shapes, they sought the woods, and along the months developed templates, sawed timber, sailfish os put the keel, stem and stern and up piece by piece this complicated and beautiful machine that is a boat, and when he left the yard, the carpenter saw him marching conscious, he alone, of the perfection of its forms and the strength of their frames. José M ª García Juan Aguado.
The planning and installation of a wooden boat is not only a work based on standards and rules of geometry sailfish os and mechanics, but also has a magical component impossible to express sailfish os in words and difficult to quantify, but is steeped in every detail sailfish os Boat. Dare you discover!
Blog Augustine Jordan Like many areas in Spain with fishing tradition, the island of Lanzarote account currently sailfish os has an equity value (Charco de San Ginés, islets and reefs Naos around the capital of the island) and only personal and own in this type of carpentry.
For this reason the Heritage Service of the Cabildo de Lanzarote proposed, in 2011, the statement of cultural interest, with the category of Traditional Knowledge and insular activity level, in favor of Bank joinery, space-related Charco de San Ginés and Temple, in the town of Arrecife.
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