Crossroads of wood culture

Last summer, in July we received a e-mail from Gilles Lecha, a woddenwork master from the Barcelona Maritime Museum. Gilles had been in Ovar in 2009 talking and teaching his restauration tecniques of a classic Dragon, the boat design by J. Anker back in the 1920`s. Since we have a same class boat at CENARIO, originaly named "Snude" and now  "Brisa", a boat that raced at the olimpic games in 1952, we invited Gilles to come here for a couple of days...

But as I was saiyng, we received an e-mail from Gilles telling us that a group of people from the International Wooden Culture Society were interested in visiting us. So they did, and as result they joined us in a sailing trip to Torreira and they made a video about their visit to Barcelona and Ovar. You can visualize it here :

"Sailing Through History with Leisure Boats"

http://www.woodculturetour.org/fv.cfm?dsn=11&c=1,1,1,1,1#.ULhkCqxJNEh 

Planning our procedures and our lives is very important, but as important is to be receptive and to get involved with unplanned and surprise encouters. That´s how I met Gilles and Pillar, from Barcelona, at a boat meeting in Viana do Castelo, Portugal. That is why we met the IWCS people, from Taiwan.