Brioc (2024) Movie Script
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We all dreamed one day
to travel through time, isn't it?
What if I told you I found a way to do it?
To arrive on board a strange
boat which has the power
to propel you back more than 1000 years?
And if today you propose to follow me,
to embark with me in
this strange ship is to live
a wonderful adventure.
So we weigh anchor.
Well, before we go, a
little introduction is in order.
My name is Johan and I will be your guide
first of all since always.
I am passionate about
stories, travel and adventures.
And for as long as I can remember,
I was steeped in the Middle Ages
child first by his imagination
of adventure and legend.
Then years later through my
leatherwork which brought me
brought to crisscross the festivals
medieval France and Navarre.
I also have another
passion: images and cinema.
So when I discovered
this strange machine and its
crew, I want to
tell you their unusual story.
So I put on my tunic of one.
I'll get my camera ready
and take you with me.
Our story begins around
the 18th century in the
Celtic islands today, called Great Britain.
At that time, a handful of
monks decided to take the
sea towards Little Britain.
Legends say that they
embarked on board the heart
oceanic wooden ships covered with leather.
It is also said that one
of them arrived on the
Armorican coasts and found,
the town of Saint-Brieuc,
And not far from 15 centuries later,
The story continues in
Carlo in a small village in
North Finistre in the pagan country.
Behind the doors of its
dilapidated guard hides our and
medieval brio, an oceanic k 12 meters long
under the leadership of their
young captain Engue Jaen.
All these people are
getting ready to experience a
rather standard adventure.
I come from a family
very close to the mother,
but I grew up in the town
of Dinan where there are
famous medieval constitutions.
And so, I was immersed in
a medieval fantasy universe
since I was little always
revealed to be knight and company.
And around the age of 20,
during my studies at the fine arts,
I am faced with the
mother's call with Hermione,
a reconstruction of 18th century frigates.
I understand that the sea
is actually everything to me.
And it's the environment
in which I feel best.
And more precisely the
sea in history with boats
made of natural, wood, hemp, linen, etc.
This is what attracts me the most.
And as for the detour of a finished
haber emerging from the mist,
the age-old silhouette of brio.
We quickly understand what
could have seduced the young man
Captain Celine raw, his
linen sails, his leather hull,
everything takes us back to a
legendary imagination which calls for
adventure but brilliance
beyond a simple ship.
It was a fantastic story that began.
It's been over 25 years now.
The most important word
is the word adventure.
So I think it's a central word in
this this story.
The main idea, therefore, was to
to give back or to give
to the city of Saint-Brieuc a
image, a more visible identity.
That's when I offered to
build or rebuild the nearest
from the original prototype to k, since
the holy founder of the
town of Saint-Brieuc is a monk
Celt who was called Brio
and who probably came from
Wales via ship.
So leather skin to leather co. So a cuo
To build brilliantly,
Louis gets help from Mathias Mercier
who has already built cu.
They are organizing a
reintegration project together for
bring this ship back to life,
so many profiles that for months,
will leave part of it in this boat.
It is said that a craftsman
leaves a part of his
soul in the pieces he creates.
And I think they have
contributed to giving this brilliantly
character for months,
they built the skeleton
and killed the riveted wood,
then they sewed together
the 70 cow pots which
constitute the shell of brio.
And then one day, it finally happened,
The ship leaves the hangar brio.
It's a bit like the monster
in Marie Che's novel,
a wooden skeleton covered
with a variegated skin of
couture in the image of the
human shock that gave birth to it
an assembly born from the multitude
and in the image of the monster.
Soon he will free
himself from his creator to
live one's own destiny
From I believe that
c, from there that human beings do what is
better in society, socially
speaking, this boat there,
as in fact all the objects
which serve as support for a
challenge, an adventure, it is rich because
It's a succession of unexpected events.
So my astonishment, my unexpectedness,
It is that the brilliance
has become something
maybe someone I never imagined
Forced into exile after
losing his hang guard
Saint-Brieuc Brio, like
Frankenstein's monster, will live on
over 1000 years of adventures.
During this period, he
will pass tomorrow in hand,
traveling the Breton
coasts even carrying the
imposing granite statues
by the artist Franois Breton.
And we come across it at that moment and
moment so love at first sight.
I find it magnificent.
And one day, it should have
been the end of the adventure,
but tough-skinned and refuses to die.
Solidarity is being organized
to get him out of trouble
Brio will find itself following
a holy construction site for a
year and a half where we change.
I don't know how much to
put, almost eight to 10 meters
leather squares.
So everything is hand-sewn,
etc. We change the rigging.
We put ropes in the room,
we put square linen sails.
The goal is to make
it completely historical,
even if it means taking time
to do a project as much as the
boat emerges with a
heightened historical interest
Because it is indeed the
master here, the story
many of those who make up the brio crew,
indulge in their passion
for historical reenactment
and more precisely, that
which consists of revisiting life
10th century Bretons.
The madou, it's how to
say a mushroom that will
make a coal that won't be very hot,
but on the other hand,
who will slowly burn out?
So we try to rediscover life and techniques
of yesteryear in search,
perhaps of a simplicity,
of an escape or simply
of common sense lost along the way.
The first idea with
brilliance and reconstruction,
it is to update knowledge, to do
old ones and reappropriate
techniques which ultimately
are completely exploitable
or whose mentality or
The savoir vivre they bring is desirable.
So, in the beginning, we were kids who,
my good medieval effect.
And gradually, we started to win seriously.
And one day, we said to ourselves
that an association had to be created.
And from there, we started shooting people.
Which ultimately all had
a profile quite close to a
another fight, nice and
interested in the basics of the test and
historical intelligence?
What interested me at the beginning,
This is the historic fight.
And so I went to see them Ken and
the brothers who had set up
the association of the ardes,
the fighters in Breton.
And so, the goal of the association,
It was about doing medieval combat.
And so I joined them after that,
we try to see what works
in terms of techniques
artisanal, because suddenly,
we have to do everything by hand.
And so, what ends up happening
is that we spend more time on
sew that to fight that, if we had said it,
I wouldn't have been seen
Today's Brio teammates
who make things happen
with hands and who ref,
do things with organic matter.
So I think they are on
the right path and it is not
just a nostalgic glance like that they
represents, but truly
a voice of the future.
And that is undoubtedly
what gives all its flavor to this
project to rediscover what we
are capable of doing with our hands
in an ever more
freed from natural constraints.
Here, we have set ourselves
the challenge of traveling
thanks to our work alone.
In short, the project is brilliant,
is to take the sea in a northerly
direction and by the same
opportunity to go back in time,
we would start from Carlo in the
North Finistre to join the English crow,
the objective to cross the Channel again,
do the opposite route to the
one who would have done the
monks, a journey of almost
1000 years back in time for
experience medieval-style sailing.
It's still quite a journey
for this little Raffi.
And I wonder if the
monks actually faced the
sleeve on boats like that.
So I went and asked
Historically, it's difficult.
To have certainties.
We have hypotheses. People
are bringing these stories up.
Of monk, moving in the
fourth sixth century to
the main thing, the same sixth
according to the documents,
according to the legend
at the historical level,
It's much more complicated
since the sources that make
mention written sources that mention monks,
it is at best from the 19th century,
otherwise we eee century.
And it's hard to know if the
ships are made of leather or
woods were more or less important.
It's circulating. The monks
will talk about the whole team of
ship roughly the same
vocabulary boat nah West,
doe and where are they going,
They most certainly come from
the current country of Gall or
see the British crow
and then arrive earlier on
the north coast of Brittany on
what would correspond to the
coastlines of the
Ctes-d'Armor and the Vilaines or
Finistre for the most part.
So it's a crossing that
really happens at different
times and above all,
was maintained throughout the Middle Ages.
Well, even if we have few sources,
we know it's been done before.
For the rest, we are
swimming in a bit of a fog.
Historical, the ideal
So we're going to do what we know.
To experiment.
We also decided to make a new sailing game
entirely by hand.
It's a bit of a big assembly
To sail the open seas with brilliance.
We also need to modify the ship a little.
So as always system d,
We make an oven to form our breakwaters.
These large steam-formed
wooden planks will come
follow the curves of the
ship to raise the bow and
prevent them from being filled by the
breaking waves in the middle.
Here, everything remains to
not all
there. That
Sinks in a little, but it
Same thing, no real source on that.
On the other hand, a certain common
sense leads us to believe that the
sailors of the time surely had recourse
to the same type of strategy.
It's not bad. I'm at home with the stuff.
These are ships that
are partially described
in both ancient sources.
Caesar speaks of it, sy.
Apollinaire also speaks of it.
So there are descriptions,
we talk about ships,
small ships and wicker inside also the
leather tanned in some
cases with precision.
And so then we can have a little more boats
big ones who can do 10
12, about fifteen meters maximum.
And there, indeed, really,
we find them only in the
Celtic world or in the world
British in the very broad sense,
the Anglo-Saxon islands and Brittany.
But we must also see that it
may be linked to the sources
say if the sources do not speak about it,
the historian is blind.
So it's not because we
don't have something in
a text that doesn't exist.
And even if the reconstruction
allows us to experience the
techniques, the sources remain the basis.
And this, well beyond the
construction of the ship,
We are doing historical research on
clothes shoes.
We will look for written
iconographic sources,
it can be in manuscripts
religious, it can take time.
These may be excavation reports,
fragments of fabric can
also be found in graves
in the peat bogs,
fragments or entire costumes,
not too much in Brittany
as the land is rather chalky.
So it doesn't really
keep, but it's not bad.
In Scandinavia, we know
that there was a mixture.
We know that these are still
people who met.
So we know that we can still rely on a
part of their source.
Actually, it's going to
be mostly wool events.
We found a little bit of one,
but in rather rich tones.
So the l is often for underwear.
So it's the underwear.
There are two kinds of pants, full pants,
otherwise they are separate things.
It's two tubes, one with the same foot.
So there's just no crotch.
So it is attached to the belt
of the bands molt material.
In fact, they are large
woven strips of wool
that we will wrap around the calves.
This allows you to be less wet for combat.
It also helps protect yourself.
So it really has a lot of uses.
The shoes are leather.
Sure, they're quite flexible.
It's leather ties on the front,
not like a modern lace.
There is still a use on board the boat with
shoes, that's all there
is to hurting yourself.
It's very quick to get
hit in the foot by a plane.
When you are barefoot
after a long wool tunic.
And we can add layers
Four With a knife, a leather belt,
we can kill leather, have leather hoods,
leather hoods.
There is definitely a utility
to it, and there is a comfort
on the boat that we don't have with events
modern on the boat, right?
We use wool instead.
So we attested with linen, linen.
Once it's wet, as soon as it's rained
or a wave, the linen, it
becomes fresh, we are frozen,
we can't get warm.
So if we are dressed, all in
wool, on the other hand wool,
once it's wet, it's waterlogged.
It takes time to dry, but it gets hot,
It heats up very quickly and
regulates the temperature.
So obviously, we sweat less in it.
It smells less strong
as the odors remain less
as a nice team.
What? A small boat.
We are making a dozen leather bags
who will be put under
the benches or members of
the crew can put their objects and their
their clothes which are dry.
And so we know where they are, here it is.
I have already brought
mine which are based on sur
Roman originals.
Since I am the one who
makes late antiquity in
the crew and the rest,
They're going to have
the bags we're making now.
And there you have it.
Afterwards, we can close this again.
Still lacks rope.
And it's going to be like that
under the bench with all the things
after a bit, just pass
enough under the bench,
like in the plane and
take his emergency drop.
Most of the historical tools
we have already tested,
notably by the sculling, it was started,
we split the wood.
So with wooden wedges with an axe,
after we cut with an adze,
we worked with a plane,
research and all that shows us
the different types of tools.
And we realize that
time does not allow us to
to do everything in historical fashion.
Yes, time is the great
constraint of which he is the
more difficult to free
oneself on this site,
all these little world of
volunteers and must deal with its
own modern constraints and obligations.
Add to that reduced weather
windows and increasingly
more uncertain over the years.
If we want to leave, we are
a race against time to play.
I'm pretty stressed
because we have to finish.
In fact, I absolutely have
to leave on August 3rd and
It may be, we will leave on the 30th.
So, with the timing, it's enough
quite a stressful situation.
If we are not ready soon,
it is no longer worth it.
So we do what we can to be on time.
And
Singing coffee.
It's like we're in a big conference.
We live together all the time, we do
the same things at the same time.
If people want to do
sports in the evening and
there are five of us to do.
If you have to do that
just to take a shower,
we really live in a community
and at the same time,
we spend all our days working together
For the duration of the work.
The majority of the crew
has taken up residence at
The cleanest
before the
And on the 12th, his meals
based on food recovery for in.
It's also time to take a
quick look at the weather.
Change is a little complicated
than we tend to be
palaces way to the east and everything.
Then it comes a little northwest.
It's not called ideal because it
bounces a little on the cornish.
It prevents us from passing.
But once we reach the
Irish Sea and the Can, St. George's Day,
there, its abyss inside.
We have the highway
to happiness to the north,
this Wednesday until 12.
It comes after his kisses.
And then it comes north,
stays north. Very strong.
Here we have a group of
friends and it's true that we
all look like the majority.
We are bearded, the majority,
These are the challenges that must be
met by brick reconstruction at the time,
It was made with a
diversity with older ones with
young people with people maybe
to improve the less well-off.
The idea is that you just have to ask,
To be part of the Brio project, just ask,
just come and just love from the moment,
we loved Brio and the
people who are with it,
There is no problem there, it is voluntary.
I am not from Brittany
or the marine environment,
then I was also at a point in
my life when I was unemployed
a little depressed because
I hadn't managed to find
only one job in my field of study.
And when I heard about this project,
since I'm also a bit of a
fan of the story of everything
next, come on, why not?
Let's try especially
What we do. It is
collective mutual aid,
moments that are very
interesting in terms of sharing
and exchanges, and also
at the level of pedagogy,
the way we each learn.
So there are some who
learn more or less quickly.
And so, these are the
people who are needed.
Succeed in accompanying.
And so we are both in the role
of master student
suddenly, it's, it's exciting
in the middle of my arms and it's the beam
on the quality of the seat.
And so it's going to switch here.
It will be soft at that point,
you'll have to turn around and get there.
You take the slack that is
here, we hang up again in the
Strap. That's it, it's done.
The big day. Finally,
the first step that brings
us closer to the start
the launch after months of construction,
it's the moment of truth
and take out this big one
two-ton baby from the shed.
It's already a small challenge.
We most likely need wine jersey or
to put on underwear, etc.
This year, we're not putting everything on.
There are few too many
people who know us and we
doesn't want to have the police.
We are in traffic jams, you can see it,
blocks absolutely everything because
And as we approach the
goal and the beach is in sight
A man more rejected,
It is precisely projects like Brio that are
completely crazy, which
encourage you a little bit to be
bold instead, DNA that I would never have
recovered a boat like that.
And I would never have even
dreamed of such a project in terms
of responsibility in terms
of organization in terms of
I will feel like I'm taking on water,
but good to see that someone
does it anyway and that it
is someone who is no more
which is nothing exceptional.
It's someone like you, like me,
It's just that he's completely passionate.
It is a success, but it is
mixed because we do not have
of immediate result.
It will flow at one point
from there, it's perfect.
Unfortunately, the tide
eventually receded without
take away, brilliance,
launching in two stages.
SO
We are at the point where he
woke up at five o'clock this morning.
To be on the boat at six o'clock,
because the sea, the other,
the sea was at seven.
We are so happy. It floats.
Now it is for one person of each
And at the first light of dawn
under the fleeting gaze of the
Virgin Island Brio Lighthouse,
finally gets out of his trailer
and returns to his element.
For us, it is a first victory and not
lesser, Lalo,
Finally, as a child,
For me, the brilliance
with which he ended his life
is what he had represented.
It was a finished story.
It was a story that could
be told in the past tense.
And there you have it,
as if by great surprise,
the brilliance comes back
to life with new people,
new projects, new energy.
So brilliance can lead us to think that,
when we think that
everything is over, no, it
there may be resurrection.
One of
on
Surprised Aura
On the Brioc crossing
will have historical interest.
That is to say that in the texts,
we have ships that leave from port abbeys
from the British coast to Brittany, that,
we know how it happened, however
actually inside the ship.
The real conditions, that,
we don't have it, we
don't have a description.
And so naturally, it will
allow us to approach not
necessarily reality, but as
close as possible to the reality of
what the medieval era could have
been like or with the experience,
We come back to see
later with the rudder and the
From there,
regarding work and what can be done.
We are really very close to the taste,
but we have the weather,
it is less and less good for us,
but it is uncertain
because it is the heart of a
depression from the moment
it is the eye really of the
depression, it can change completely
everything from one day to the next.
So that means we have a possibility of
leave, but not on Monday.
So we have to be ready to
leave on Monday, if we can.
Here we are, the final stretch
by the fateful date,
we only have a little time left
and yet a lot of work.
So we cut the sails as
fast as our sore fingers
through the work of the last
few months allows us to do so.
The whole crew is busy
complete the final work on board.
Despite the fatigue,
everyone gives their all.
And the workshop takes on
the appearance of a real anthill.
We have a captain at
the end of his rope, that
On the beach too. We
the wool tent that will be our
only defense is being set up
facing the vagaries of the weather.
Bretonne is installed
for the final adjustments.
And then finally, we bring the trough.
This hollow granite block, a good hundred
kilos will welcome the fire on board.
It will be our kitchen and
our only source of heat.
Besides, these are the same troughs,
the only lasting remains of
these boats which inspired
the legends of stone boats, monks.
And when some texts
speak of 70 months on board,
Indeed, we can speak of a miracle.
And today, we reach the end.
All these long months
of work have brought us
here on this beach.
And for the first time in
a long time, Brioc and his
crew delights the eyes with
a spectacle of which only he
secret of a sudden,
the magic happens and we meet again
catapulted back 10 centuries.
So there, not only is
there a historical interest,
there may also be a personal
interest as well as all of a sudden
suddenly, our texts
which are a little cold,
not even descriptive but cold,
will become a little more
carnal and real thanks to
the experiment that will be
carried out on board the Brioc.
Well, despite the pretty
picture, to be honest,
the season is already well advanced.
And now the weather
conditions are as expected.
A departure would go
against all common sense.
We gave our time,
We gave money and patience.
We really gave it our all.
That's life. That's how it is.
You should not be disappointed
or not have the impression
of having missed something.
It's brilliance that demands
all the effort we've made.
And in one way or another, he makes it and
it is less delayed in time.
There you go. But well done everyone.
Let's not lie to ourselves.
We're still quite disappointed.
All this work done to finally stay
there, but that's the game.
Redo to history,
it is to accept a report as well
different from today's.
So we console ourselves with a
test outing and we give ourselves
See you next year with
a definite advantage.
The boat will be ready.
That's it, we're back to Carlo.
A year has passed since our last attempt
Because And as is often
the case with brilliance,
we welcome newcomers.
And this year, we're starting
with an international crew.
And
has,
I think that's the key
to this kind of thing,
is that people also
learn a lot to do things
sails, make a boat there.
And I see this energy
only in projects or people.
Really will acquire knowledge
that they do not have.
We were able to have one of the
dozens of young people who come
from all over Europe and all over France,
of all social profiles nor
and work what and that,
It's quite unusual that I
think it's the strength of Brio,
but it's also a big headache,
It's a parade.
And we have to leave tomorrow morning.
And I was wondering if you
would have been available for us
drive a truck tonight
On foot. Because what is
what I have
Still this morning? Look
in the weather, I said to myself
if we don't change
plans, they're in the sea,
we needed to talk as soon as possible
leave as soon as possible.
We are talking about winning two
tides ahead, two tides ahead.
It's a dozen hours and a dozen hours.
This is the time we can
gain to avoid getting hit.
Of wind in the face that we arrive at too.
But that means we
lose a day of preparation.
So he wants to do everything twice as fast,
with potentially half as
many target audiences as a
part of the crew is not yet mobilized, etc.
So today we try to put
everything in the coffers
that the entire food and
catering section is settled.
We try to make the boat
by to navigate and for
all that the finishes and
company like d, it will go to the trap
As wheat, oats and craisin for
not just to spill, I put
a fairly thick link that
we waxed with beeswax
that we heat with our hands,
the wax is crazy, a little bit,
C. Good,
It's good. And by good, it's good.
The first thing that comes to mind,
This is a slightly dangerous
side of the matter,
because it's the sleeve,
one of the most frequented mothers.
And so on a 10th century boat
12 meters in the conditions of the time,
It is truly a perilous undertaking.
And so there is something
perhaps miraculous,
a bit like in the days of Brio Cast,
a briec to try it again
D.
Rod se protect un we
to roll
and that
Because of the east wind,
it was too dangerous for us.
We decided to move the boat
for a departure further east.
The plan is simple: tomorrow,
at the first light of day,
We set sail and head for the islands.
And
From
In
Mine hour tank arrived at
four o'clock in the match on the
marquis whom I was afraid
of not waking up, if at home,
Some bay residents take
advantage of the opportunity
to assist with boarding
A welcome year,
Nothing permission
to come up to you,
Piece
Compagn.
And
because Brittany,
Before we can hoist the sails,
We have to get out of the bay first.
And for that, you have to
put in a little elbow grease.
And especially a lot of planes,
The one in the
the in the and
And in a
in the in
and the
For once, we're sailing.
Now, it's great to see
it working like that.
This is so good.
It's exceptional. What we have,
it is a combination of troop circumstances,
not funny between the sick birches
and the mistakes that we make
can do things that take more time,
the ths that are not there.
And there was a relentless
onslaught of sick people.
And there you realize that
the sails work like crazy.
We have more space than before.
We're making good progress.
Everything is going well,
Now that we're on the right course,
we will be able to rest a little and relax.
You remember the tinder fungus will talk or
It is thanks to him that we
want to be able to eat and
warm up, no on board, no lighter,
just a piece of iron that
we strike on a flint to
hoping to ignite the mushroom.
And the most amazing thing is
that once you get the hang of it
by hand, it's super fast,
Emotion,
not
All about smoking.
And despite the inconvenience of the smoke,
a few minutes later,
we can finally enjoy
our little medieval and
enjoy a magnificent sunset
on the English Channel.
So it is with a full stomach that we
let's start our first night at sea.
Everyone finds their place on
board. The boat is moving well.
And we are hopeful of
reaching the Sili Islands before
the arrival of the depression
coming from the west,
but like a bad twist of fate at nightfall,
the wind drops and we
experience one of the greatest
fears of the sailors of the time, the ole,
especially since on Brio,
there is no engine on board.
Go rather quickly.
The sails worked well there,
we see that it is a little for the moment,
calmer in terms of wind.
So we hope that will change.
Because otherwise we won't be able to do it
as you wish today. What?
We'll see a little.
It's a bit of an emotional rollercoaster.
There it is oil and oil.
She wants to last until
two, three o'clock, beat me,
I really hoped we were
ahead of schedule today.
And we didn't get that
much of a head start.
And tomorrow, the wind is
forecast to be a little less strong
that it was originally planned.
So at risk longer than expected.
So unless it works really well
In the middle of the
night, we return to Brittany.
There you go. So we'll see
in the middle of the night.
Deprived of our only
means of moving forward.
We find ourselves tossed about by a
almost stagnant sea.
We are now too far from
the coast to hope for the
wait by rowing, at the
mercy of the currents.
We have no choice but to rely on the
sea and hope for the wind to return.
Ideally, it will be west northwest
to try to be able to follow a
little the road that we are on
planned to go up to the islands.
But when you can light your
way with candles on a ship
open, so to speak,
it's really not a deposit,
Alex on the map can
only observe our slow drift
but certain towards the west,
We are pushed more by the swell than
actually on the route we are
trying to take with the wind.
That's how it is, but
there, it's true that oil,
it's not necessarily
optimal for navigation.
It's a little more complicated with us.
Our food water reserves are still full.
So don't panic on that side,
We still hope that the wind
will return quickly because there
always has this storm coming
The next morning, still no wind.
We wake up on a sea of oil.
We've only been gone for 24 hours.
And in this landscape haloed
for the first time on the journey,
I feel like I'm experiencing
one of the trials that must have
live the monks and
sailors of ancient times.
And then, for the first
time having actually crossed
the time, the
currents brought us almost
back to the height of Car Loen
and now we can fly back to the coast.
And suddenly, I tell
myself that the choice of gu
was really wise.
If we had weighed anchor at
the start of the car, we would have
would be wading in the
middle of the Atlantic without
no way to turn back,
bad luck.
Here we are back to square one.
And I think that these tourists
who came to enjoy the sun do not
didn't really expect this spectacle.
People often ask us what we are,
what are we going to do with it?
And are we Vikings?
So we have that, but in any case,
It's a pretty enigmatic
boat, I think for people and
which do not leave you indifferent.
What? I don't know if it is
because I consider him as a person from
the departure also because
everyone talks about it like a
no one, but it's hard
not to personify this boat
because we really have
the impression that he has a
personality that it is he who decides.
So yes, we say that
brilliance and capriciousness,
but he surely has his
reasons for this evening,
we will stay sheltered in the bay in
waiting for the depression to pass.
We hope to take advantage of the change of
wind and follow in his footsteps.
So last night of peace and
quiet before the big crossing.
And so, the idea is to
have a bed that we can
use other than sleeping.
So, the cape that serves as our coat,
it's going to be one of
our covers, the cover water,
It helps the finest
possible who comes there
as a bonus in comfort.
And after that, we have an
agreement which is exclusive,
but which can also be
used when rowing for not
wear out the effect on
the benches, it's the skin.
So we have a cover skin and that's it.
Ok, second attempt,
the sun rises and we get ready.
The wind is quite strong.
So, to reduce the sail,
we decide to have some rice
here we go.
As we leave the Breton coast behind us,
we begin to notice the
sea left by the storm,
A small one or two meters,
sometimes a little more.
But otherwise, it's going to be a
whole thing that can be agitating.
Well, three meters, I think.
On I
Not the steps but the
five meters of hollow.
Well, you will have
understood, the further we go,
the bigger the sea becomes.
And at that moment, I
wonder if I really have
good thing you got me involved in this,
A little bit of a tug of
war between the swell
and the wind and everything
that pulls to one side, me,
I pull the other one and
we try to see who is right.
Who is it?
How can we believe that this
attempt is not the right one?
When a pod of dolphins
suddenly appears for us
escort out to sea, he plays around
of us testifying.
So from our more than sustained pace,
the westerly winds left by the storm
make it difficult to access the six.
So after escaping the
mist returned to land and
took shelter at Bri Augan,
We are now heading towards England.
The open sea opens up before us and bricks
reveals its marine potential.
But soon, danger looms on the horizon,
a danger that did not exist
1000 years ago and that
Now we will have to face
There. I'm on the eve, we
will soon enter the canal.
And so, so that we are
sufficiently vigilant about
to avoid cargo ships,
something that was not
there in the 10th century, you
Manage to pull down the foremast wall
While the sailors' stories are
populated by sea monsters.
Here we soon discover
very different monsters,
metal giants several hundred meters high
long since brio.
It's true that the view is impressive. I
I'm on the port side, which
is me on the starboard side.
I didn't see,
We are not on the water. And with
the swell, we see that
you go 50 and 80 meters from the street.
And we must imagine that this is not
They are not the ones
who will change course.
There are three on our starboard side,
we are clear about the first two.
There's a small one hidden behind.
So it's up to us to be vigilant.
Dodge change course.
This is it
An unbalanced balance of power lies.
To avoid damaging this building,
we decided to take a slight turn.
We were afraid of their father
having a few holes in the hull.
We didn't get on board
so much that it was closing.
With a knife between his teeth.
It seems a bit ambitious to me and
the catch can't take the effort.
I can't help but wonder
with a small smile on his lips.
What could they have thought
when they saw our boat from
their footbridge, a vestige of
the past that ventures onto a
of the busiest shipping
routes in the modern world.
It must be said that the
feeling of anachronism is strong.
And yet we challenge
these giants on their own turf
of play, them,
their 200 meters long and
their oil and we 12 meters
of leather wood, hemp linen and the
wind as the only fuel.
I must admit that the landscape is very
Impressive.
The pain of the boat's
sails, the people's clothes,
All we see is a form of natural beauty.
So it's actually not necessarily this
that can be seen on all boats
For this crossing. Seamstress
impossible to put up the tent.
So for tonight, it will be
back to back under the stars
A bit normal.
This day was d. It's true that it was
For my part, I am happy with the moment.
Without realizing that it is
the accomplishment, in fact,
the beginning of the
accomplishment of what one works for
for several years.
J. The impression that the
ideal course is that the two stars
to the right of the large one in case
Believe it or not, but those
who are followed that night
are almost magical.
The one who once could
transform the simplest
story in legend while
we were sinking deeper
and deeper into the darkness
from a sea of jets, the waves light up.
Suddenly our passage, let
us draw the Milky Way in our
furrow soon this inert glow
whirled and turned to fly.
Let us draw arabesques
of ephemeral blue light
spectral around us.
When finally darkness
returned to the present moment,
the celestial vault suddenly
tore apart with a burst
dazzling marking the sky
with a burning cloud which
soon faded into darkness more than ever.
During this journey, I really
put myself in the shoes of these
navigators from Milan
sailing in an uncharted ocean
where the unknown
was still draped in magic.
The images from last
night are still present and
now seem like the
fragments of a strange dream
Last night was pretty crazy.
There were plankton dolphins,
the dolphins who were doing
arabesques in the night
plankton with all the stars
from the sky that were
there with all magic,
Still no land in sight.
The second quarter team had to continue its
slalom among the cargo ships.
But that's it, we've passed,
England is reaching out to us.
It's only a matter of time.
The earth is getting closer
and closer. It's going well.
Thought we were going to
have a little rain, but actually
to slip through the net
after everyone is awake on board,
then we have to arrive
For the earth.
Oh,
It's a pleasure.
We are not lost for centuries
and centuries in the middle of
sea, that means we
will end up touching land.
And there we are, the crow.
We are inexorably approaching Pence Bay
after several days at sea,
the setbacks of weather delays.
We finally arrive at the
first stage of Brio's journey.
This little medieval heart
has proven that it is still
able to face the round.
They all don't realize that there is a good
star above brioc first because
No one would think that
such a boat is so seaworthy.
We imagine that it is a boat at best,
an annex for large boats or,
and finally we discover
while sailing with that the ex
extremely marine which
withstands waves of five meters,
a boat that behaved admirably and in fact,
all COS under chance.
All the beauty of what we
experience ultimately brings us back to
a kind of mystical wandering.
We too fall into a species
of faith that we sometimes cannot name
Well done to all
and that's it
At Each Slice
Madness, same madness
with every slice eaten polished,
put his gun there, it's big
there, it's too low, there.
It's too far away there, it's fine.
So yes, it's not really
the drop-off point that we
had thought at first,
but it's part of the game.
You have to know how to adapt.
And there by an almost
providential coincidence,
whose briotte often delights us,
we go up an aber to
discover a resplendent place
of a calm that contrasts
with the tumult of the waters.
This abbey, founded by a
Breton monk in the sixth century
welcomes us as a nod
to the destiny of brio and
to the epic of the monks
who inspired this journey.
And like them, I tell myself that
all this would not have been possible
that by the will of dozens of
people that brilliantly knew how
federate for more than 25 years.
We really have this
idea of an exploit, maybe
it might not work.
We had never done it,
We have a crossing to make.
If someone is a little bit in trouble,
but we will adapt, we
tried to help him, then he,
he tries to help us
when he can and that's it,
It's really a great experience.
These are links for me that
that I will always keep and if Jero
people anywhere I think we can meet this
mind there too, quite easily.
To What
It's not a list of things
I absolutely have to do.
That I checked and it's good.
I can pass, no, no,
I want to continue
doing this kind of thing.
And, and it was brilliance that
made me want to be a sailor.
We all find different things
in this adventure and at
the same time, concretely, the
but it is the same for everyone.
So there is a notion of
dream and at the same time,
It's much less nebulous than that.
We seem to believe
The notion of dream, it comes
up often and we always have
the impression of having dreamed.
And actually, to be very honest,
I haven't had the pangs of waking up yet,
which means I don't understand
what's happening to me.
So we will see if it
has the pinch or if the
life, it's been a happening all along
with briotte everything is possible.
Once this journey is completed,
It is finally time for us to
return to the 21st century,
we decide to leave brio to
the fondant aber of the bay of
pence in the hollow of this forest
Brio will wait for our return
to continue his journey towards
the north and reach its final
destination in Scotland, the island
d.
We all dreamed one day
to travel through time, isn't it?
What if I told you I found a way to do it?
To arrive on board a strange
boat which has the power
to propel you back more than 1000 years?
And if today you propose to follow me,
to embark with me in
this strange ship is to live
a wonderful adventure.
So we weigh anchor.
Well, before we go, a
little introduction is in order.
My name is Johan and I will be your guide
first of all since always.
I am passionate about
stories, travel and adventures.
And for as long as I can remember,
I was steeped in the Middle Ages
child first by his imagination
of adventure and legend.
Then years later through my
leatherwork which brought me
brought to crisscross the festivals
medieval France and Navarre.
I also have another
passion: images and cinema.
So when I discovered
this strange machine and its
crew, I want to
tell you their unusual story.
So I put on my tunic of one.
I'll get my camera ready
and take you with me.
Our story begins around
the 18th century in the
Celtic islands today, called Great Britain.
At that time, a handful of
monks decided to take the
sea towards Little Britain.
Legends say that they
embarked on board the heart
oceanic wooden ships covered with leather.
It is also said that one
of them arrived on the
Armorican coasts and found,
the town of Saint-Brieuc,
And not far from 15 centuries later,
The story continues in
Carlo in a small village in
North Finistre in the pagan country.
Behind the doors of its
dilapidated guard hides our and
medieval brio, an oceanic k 12 meters long
under the leadership of their
young captain Engue Jaen.
All these people are
getting ready to experience a
rather standard adventure.
I come from a family
very close to the mother,
but I grew up in the town
of Dinan where there are
famous medieval constitutions.
And so, I was immersed in
a medieval fantasy universe
since I was little always
revealed to be knight and company.
And around the age of 20,
during my studies at the fine arts,
I am faced with the
mother's call with Hermione,
a reconstruction of 18th century frigates.
I understand that the sea
is actually everything to me.
And it's the environment
in which I feel best.
And more precisely the
sea in history with boats
made of natural, wood, hemp, linen, etc.
This is what attracts me the most.
And as for the detour of a finished
haber emerging from the mist,
the age-old silhouette of brio.
We quickly understand what
could have seduced the young man
Captain Celine raw, his
linen sails, his leather hull,
everything takes us back to a
legendary imagination which calls for
adventure but brilliance
beyond a simple ship.
It was a fantastic story that began.
It's been over 25 years now.
The most important word
is the word adventure.
So I think it's a central word in
this this story.
The main idea, therefore, was to
to give back or to give
to the city of Saint-Brieuc a
image, a more visible identity.
That's when I offered to
build or rebuild the nearest
from the original prototype to k, since
the holy founder of the
town of Saint-Brieuc is a monk
Celt who was called Brio
and who probably came from
Wales via ship.
So leather skin to leather co. So a cuo
To build brilliantly,
Louis gets help from Mathias Mercier
who has already built cu.
They are organizing a
reintegration project together for
bring this ship back to life,
so many profiles that for months,
will leave part of it in this boat.
It is said that a craftsman
leaves a part of his
soul in the pieces he creates.
And I think they have
contributed to giving this brilliantly
character for months,
they built the skeleton
and killed the riveted wood,
then they sewed together
the 70 cow pots which
constitute the shell of brio.
And then one day, it finally happened,
The ship leaves the hangar brio.
It's a bit like the monster
in Marie Che's novel,
a wooden skeleton covered
with a variegated skin of
couture in the image of the
human shock that gave birth to it
an assembly born from the multitude
and in the image of the monster.
Soon he will free
himself from his creator to
live one's own destiny
From I believe that
c, from there that human beings do what is
better in society, socially
speaking, this boat there,
as in fact all the objects
which serve as support for a
challenge, an adventure, it is rich because
It's a succession of unexpected events.
So my astonishment, my unexpectedness,
It is that the brilliance
has become something
maybe someone I never imagined
Forced into exile after
losing his hang guard
Saint-Brieuc Brio, like
Frankenstein's monster, will live on
over 1000 years of adventures.
During this period, he
will pass tomorrow in hand,
traveling the Breton
coasts even carrying the
imposing granite statues
by the artist Franois Breton.
And we come across it at that moment and
moment so love at first sight.
I find it magnificent.
And one day, it should have
been the end of the adventure,
but tough-skinned and refuses to die.
Solidarity is being organized
to get him out of trouble
Brio will find itself following
a holy construction site for a
year and a half where we change.
I don't know how much to
put, almost eight to 10 meters
leather squares.
So everything is hand-sewn,
etc. We change the rigging.
We put ropes in the room,
we put square linen sails.
The goal is to make
it completely historical,
even if it means taking time
to do a project as much as the
boat emerges with a
heightened historical interest
Because it is indeed the
master here, the story
many of those who make up the brio crew,
indulge in their passion
for historical reenactment
and more precisely, that
which consists of revisiting life
10th century Bretons.
The madou, it's how to
say a mushroom that will
make a coal that won't be very hot,
but on the other hand,
who will slowly burn out?
So we try to rediscover life and techniques
of yesteryear in search,
perhaps of a simplicity,
of an escape or simply
of common sense lost along the way.
The first idea with
brilliance and reconstruction,
it is to update knowledge, to do
old ones and reappropriate
techniques which ultimately
are completely exploitable
or whose mentality or
The savoir vivre they bring is desirable.
So, in the beginning, we were kids who,
my good medieval effect.
And gradually, we started to win seriously.
And one day, we said to ourselves
that an association had to be created.
And from there, we started shooting people.
Which ultimately all had
a profile quite close to a
another fight, nice and
interested in the basics of the test and
historical intelligence?
What interested me at the beginning,
This is the historic fight.
And so I went to see them Ken and
the brothers who had set up
the association of the ardes,
the fighters in Breton.
And so, the goal of the association,
It was about doing medieval combat.
And so I joined them after that,
we try to see what works
in terms of techniques
artisanal, because suddenly,
we have to do everything by hand.
And so, what ends up happening
is that we spend more time on
sew that to fight that, if we had said it,
I wouldn't have been seen
Today's Brio teammates
who make things happen
with hands and who ref,
do things with organic matter.
So I think they are on
the right path and it is not
just a nostalgic glance like that they
represents, but truly
a voice of the future.
And that is undoubtedly
what gives all its flavor to this
project to rediscover what we
are capable of doing with our hands
in an ever more
freed from natural constraints.
Here, we have set ourselves
the challenge of traveling
thanks to our work alone.
In short, the project is brilliant,
is to take the sea in a northerly
direction and by the same
opportunity to go back in time,
we would start from Carlo in the
North Finistre to join the English crow,
the objective to cross the Channel again,
do the opposite route to the
one who would have done the
monks, a journey of almost
1000 years back in time for
experience medieval-style sailing.
It's still quite a journey
for this little Raffi.
And I wonder if the
monks actually faced the
sleeve on boats like that.
So I went and asked
Historically, it's difficult.
To have certainties.
We have hypotheses. People
are bringing these stories up.
Of monk, moving in the
fourth sixth century to
the main thing, the same sixth
according to the documents,
according to the legend
at the historical level,
It's much more complicated
since the sources that make
mention written sources that mention monks,
it is at best from the 19th century,
otherwise we eee century.
And it's hard to know if the
ships are made of leather or
woods were more or less important.
It's circulating. The monks
will talk about the whole team of
ship roughly the same
vocabulary boat nah West,
doe and where are they going,
They most certainly come from
the current country of Gall or
see the British crow
and then arrive earlier on
the north coast of Brittany on
what would correspond to the
coastlines of the
Ctes-d'Armor and the Vilaines or
Finistre for the most part.
So it's a crossing that
really happens at different
times and above all,
was maintained throughout the Middle Ages.
Well, even if we have few sources,
we know it's been done before.
For the rest, we are
swimming in a bit of a fog.
Historical, the ideal
So we're going to do what we know.
To experiment.
We also decided to make a new sailing game
entirely by hand.
It's a bit of a big assembly
To sail the open seas with brilliance.
We also need to modify the ship a little.
So as always system d,
We make an oven to form our breakwaters.
These large steam-formed
wooden planks will come
follow the curves of the
ship to raise the bow and
prevent them from being filled by the
breaking waves in the middle.
Here, everything remains to
not all
there. That
Sinks in a little, but it
Same thing, no real source on that.
On the other hand, a certain common
sense leads us to believe that the
sailors of the time surely had recourse
to the same type of strategy.
It's not bad. I'm at home with the stuff.
These are ships that
are partially described
in both ancient sources.
Caesar speaks of it, sy.
Apollinaire also speaks of it.
So there are descriptions,
we talk about ships,
small ships and wicker inside also the
leather tanned in some
cases with precision.
And so then we can have a little more boats
big ones who can do 10
12, about fifteen meters maximum.
And there, indeed, really,
we find them only in the
Celtic world or in the world
British in the very broad sense,
the Anglo-Saxon islands and Brittany.
But we must also see that it
may be linked to the sources
say if the sources do not speak about it,
the historian is blind.
So it's not because we
don't have something in
a text that doesn't exist.
And even if the reconstruction
allows us to experience the
techniques, the sources remain the basis.
And this, well beyond the
construction of the ship,
We are doing historical research on
clothes shoes.
We will look for written
iconographic sources,
it can be in manuscripts
religious, it can take time.
These may be excavation reports,
fragments of fabric can
also be found in graves
in the peat bogs,
fragments or entire costumes,
not too much in Brittany
as the land is rather chalky.
So it doesn't really
keep, but it's not bad.
In Scandinavia, we know
that there was a mixture.
We know that these are still
people who met.
So we know that we can still rely on a
part of their source.
Actually, it's going to
be mostly wool events.
We found a little bit of one,
but in rather rich tones.
So the l is often for underwear.
So it's the underwear.
There are two kinds of pants, full pants,
otherwise they are separate things.
It's two tubes, one with the same foot.
So there's just no crotch.
So it is attached to the belt
of the bands molt material.
In fact, they are large
woven strips of wool
that we will wrap around the calves.
This allows you to be less wet for combat.
It also helps protect yourself.
So it really has a lot of uses.
The shoes are leather.
Sure, they're quite flexible.
It's leather ties on the front,
not like a modern lace.
There is still a use on board the boat with
shoes, that's all there
is to hurting yourself.
It's very quick to get
hit in the foot by a plane.
When you are barefoot
after a long wool tunic.
And we can add layers
Four With a knife, a leather belt,
we can kill leather, have leather hoods,
leather hoods.
There is definitely a utility
to it, and there is a comfort
on the boat that we don't have with events
modern on the boat, right?
We use wool instead.
So we attested with linen, linen.
Once it's wet, as soon as it's rained
or a wave, the linen, it
becomes fresh, we are frozen,
we can't get warm.
So if we are dressed, all in
wool, on the other hand wool,
once it's wet, it's waterlogged.
It takes time to dry, but it gets hot,
It heats up very quickly and
regulates the temperature.
So obviously, we sweat less in it.
It smells less strong
as the odors remain less
as a nice team.
What? A small boat.
We are making a dozen leather bags
who will be put under
the benches or members of
the crew can put their objects and their
their clothes which are dry.
And so we know where they are, here it is.
I have already brought
mine which are based on sur
Roman originals.
Since I am the one who
makes late antiquity in
the crew and the rest,
They're going to have
the bags we're making now.
And there you have it.
Afterwards, we can close this again.
Still lacks rope.
And it's going to be like that
under the bench with all the things
after a bit, just pass
enough under the bench,
like in the plane and
take his emergency drop.
Most of the historical tools
we have already tested,
notably by the sculling, it was started,
we split the wood.
So with wooden wedges with an axe,
after we cut with an adze,
we worked with a plane,
research and all that shows us
the different types of tools.
And we realize that
time does not allow us to
to do everything in historical fashion.
Yes, time is the great
constraint of which he is the
more difficult to free
oneself on this site,
all these little world of
volunteers and must deal with its
own modern constraints and obligations.
Add to that reduced weather
windows and increasingly
more uncertain over the years.
If we want to leave, we are
a race against time to play.
I'm pretty stressed
because we have to finish.
In fact, I absolutely have
to leave on August 3rd and
It may be, we will leave on the 30th.
So, with the timing, it's enough
quite a stressful situation.
If we are not ready soon,
it is no longer worth it.
So we do what we can to be on time.
And
Singing coffee.
It's like we're in a big conference.
We live together all the time, we do
the same things at the same time.
If people want to do
sports in the evening and
there are five of us to do.
If you have to do that
just to take a shower,
we really live in a community
and at the same time,
we spend all our days working together
For the duration of the work.
The majority of the crew
has taken up residence at
The cleanest
before the
And on the 12th, his meals
based on food recovery for in.
It's also time to take a
quick look at the weather.
Change is a little complicated
than we tend to be
palaces way to the east and everything.
Then it comes a little northwest.
It's not called ideal because it
bounces a little on the cornish.
It prevents us from passing.
But once we reach the
Irish Sea and the Can, St. George's Day,
there, its abyss inside.
We have the highway
to happiness to the north,
this Wednesday until 12.
It comes after his kisses.
And then it comes north,
stays north. Very strong.
Here we have a group of
friends and it's true that we
all look like the majority.
We are bearded, the majority,
These are the challenges that must be
met by brick reconstruction at the time,
It was made with a
diversity with older ones with
young people with people maybe
to improve the less well-off.
The idea is that you just have to ask,
To be part of the Brio project, just ask,
just come and just love from the moment,
we loved Brio and the
people who are with it,
There is no problem there, it is voluntary.
I am not from Brittany
or the marine environment,
then I was also at a point in
my life when I was unemployed
a little depressed because
I hadn't managed to find
only one job in my field of study.
And when I heard about this project,
since I'm also a bit of a
fan of the story of everything
next, come on, why not?
Let's try especially
What we do. It is
collective mutual aid,
moments that are very
interesting in terms of sharing
and exchanges, and also
at the level of pedagogy,
the way we each learn.
So there are some who
learn more or less quickly.
And so, these are the
people who are needed.
Succeed in accompanying.
And so we are both in the role
of master student
suddenly, it's, it's exciting
in the middle of my arms and it's the beam
on the quality of the seat.
And so it's going to switch here.
It will be soft at that point,
you'll have to turn around and get there.
You take the slack that is
here, we hang up again in the
Strap. That's it, it's done.
The big day. Finally,
the first step that brings
us closer to the start
the launch after months of construction,
it's the moment of truth
and take out this big one
two-ton baby from the shed.
It's already a small challenge.
We most likely need wine jersey or
to put on underwear, etc.
This year, we're not putting everything on.
There are few too many
people who know us and we
doesn't want to have the police.
We are in traffic jams, you can see it,
blocks absolutely everything because
And as we approach the
goal and the beach is in sight
A man more rejected,
It is precisely projects like Brio that are
completely crazy, which
encourage you a little bit to be
bold instead, DNA that I would never have
recovered a boat like that.
And I would never have even
dreamed of such a project in terms
of responsibility in terms
of organization in terms of
I will feel like I'm taking on water,
but good to see that someone
does it anyway and that it
is someone who is no more
which is nothing exceptional.
It's someone like you, like me,
It's just that he's completely passionate.
It is a success, but it is
mixed because we do not have
of immediate result.
It will flow at one point
from there, it's perfect.
Unfortunately, the tide
eventually receded without
take away, brilliance,
launching in two stages.
SO
We are at the point where he
woke up at five o'clock this morning.
To be on the boat at six o'clock,
because the sea, the other,
the sea was at seven.
We are so happy. It floats.
Now it is for one person of each
And at the first light of dawn
under the fleeting gaze of the
Virgin Island Brio Lighthouse,
finally gets out of his trailer
and returns to his element.
For us, it is a first victory and not
lesser, Lalo,
Finally, as a child,
For me, the brilliance
with which he ended his life
is what he had represented.
It was a finished story.
It was a story that could
be told in the past tense.
And there you have it,
as if by great surprise,
the brilliance comes back
to life with new people,
new projects, new energy.
So brilliance can lead us to think that,
when we think that
everything is over, no, it
there may be resurrection.
One of
on
Surprised Aura
On the Brioc crossing
will have historical interest.
That is to say that in the texts,
we have ships that leave from port abbeys
from the British coast to Brittany, that,
we know how it happened, however
actually inside the ship.
The real conditions, that,
we don't have it, we
don't have a description.
And so naturally, it will
allow us to approach not
necessarily reality, but as
close as possible to the reality of
what the medieval era could have
been like or with the experience,
We come back to see
later with the rudder and the
From there,
regarding work and what can be done.
We are really very close to the taste,
but we have the weather,
it is less and less good for us,
but it is uncertain
because it is the heart of a
depression from the moment
it is the eye really of the
depression, it can change completely
everything from one day to the next.
So that means we have a possibility of
leave, but not on Monday.
So we have to be ready to
leave on Monday, if we can.
Here we are, the final stretch
by the fateful date,
we only have a little time left
and yet a lot of work.
So we cut the sails as
fast as our sore fingers
through the work of the last
few months allows us to do so.
The whole crew is busy
complete the final work on board.
Despite the fatigue,
everyone gives their all.
And the workshop takes on
the appearance of a real anthill.
We have a captain at
the end of his rope, that
On the beach too. We
the wool tent that will be our
only defense is being set up
facing the vagaries of the weather.
Bretonne is installed
for the final adjustments.
And then finally, we bring the trough.
This hollow granite block, a good hundred
kilos will welcome the fire on board.
It will be our kitchen and
our only source of heat.
Besides, these are the same troughs,
the only lasting remains of
these boats which inspired
the legends of stone boats, monks.
And when some texts
speak of 70 months on board,
Indeed, we can speak of a miracle.
And today, we reach the end.
All these long months
of work have brought us
here on this beach.
And for the first time in
a long time, Brioc and his
crew delights the eyes with
a spectacle of which only he
secret of a sudden,
the magic happens and we meet again
catapulted back 10 centuries.
So there, not only is
there a historical interest,
there may also be a personal
interest as well as all of a sudden
suddenly, our texts
which are a little cold,
not even descriptive but cold,
will become a little more
carnal and real thanks to
the experiment that will be
carried out on board the Brioc.
Well, despite the pretty
picture, to be honest,
the season is already well advanced.
And now the weather
conditions are as expected.
A departure would go
against all common sense.
We gave our time,
We gave money and patience.
We really gave it our all.
That's life. That's how it is.
You should not be disappointed
or not have the impression
of having missed something.
It's brilliance that demands
all the effort we've made.
And in one way or another, he makes it and
it is less delayed in time.
There you go. But well done everyone.
Let's not lie to ourselves.
We're still quite disappointed.
All this work done to finally stay
there, but that's the game.
Redo to history,
it is to accept a report as well
different from today's.
So we console ourselves with a
test outing and we give ourselves
See you next year with
a definite advantage.
The boat will be ready.
That's it, we're back to Carlo.
A year has passed since our last attempt
Because And as is often
the case with brilliance,
we welcome newcomers.
And this year, we're starting
with an international crew.
And
has,
I think that's the key
to this kind of thing,
is that people also
learn a lot to do things
sails, make a boat there.
And I see this energy
only in projects or people.
Really will acquire knowledge
that they do not have.
We were able to have one of the
dozens of young people who come
from all over Europe and all over France,
of all social profiles nor
and work what and that,
It's quite unusual that I
think it's the strength of Brio,
but it's also a big headache,
It's a parade.
And we have to leave tomorrow morning.
And I was wondering if you
would have been available for us
drive a truck tonight
On foot. Because what is
what I have
Still this morning? Look
in the weather, I said to myself
if we don't change
plans, they're in the sea,
we needed to talk as soon as possible
leave as soon as possible.
We are talking about winning two
tides ahead, two tides ahead.
It's a dozen hours and a dozen hours.
This is the time we can
gain to avoid getting hit.
Of wind in the face that we arrive at too.
But that means we
lose a day of preparation.
So he wants to do everything twice as fast,
with potentially half as
many target audiences as a
part of the crew is not yet mobilized, etc.
So today we try to put
everything in the coffers
that the entire food and
catering section is settled.
We try to make the boat
by to navigate and for
all that the finishes and
company like d, it will go to the trap
As wheat, oats and craisin for
not just to spill, I put
a fairly thick link that
we waxed with beeswax
that we heat with our hands,
the wax is crazy, a little bit,
C. Good,
It's good. And by good, it's good.
The first thing that comes to mind,
This is a slightly dangerous
side of the matter,
because it's the sleeve,
one of the most frequented mothers.
And so on a 10th century boat
12 meters in the conditions of the time,
It is truly a perilous undertaking.
And so there is something
perhaps miraculous,
a bit like in the days of Brio Cast,
a briec to try it again
D.
Rod se protect un we
to roll
and that
Because of the east wind,
it was too dangerous for us.
We decided to move the boat
for a departure further east.
The plan is simple: tomorrow,
at the first light of day,
We set sail and head for the islands.
And
From
In
Mine hour tank arrived at
four o'clock in the match on the
marquis whom I was afraid
of not waking up, if at home,
Some bay residents take
advantage of the opportunity
to assist with boarding
A welcome year,
Nothing permission
to come up to you,
Piece
Compagn.
And
because Brittany,
Before we can hoist the sails,
We have to get out of the bay first.
And for that, you have to
put in a little elbow grease.
And especially a lot of planes,
The one in the
the in the and
And in a
in the in
and the
For once, we're sailing.
Now, it's great to see
it working like that.
This is so good.
It's exceptional. What we have,
it is a combination of troop circumstances,
not funny between the sick birches
and the mistakes that we make
can do things that take more time,
the ths that are not there.
And there was a relentless
onslaught of sick people.
And there you realize that
the sails work like crazy.
We have more space than before.
We're making good progress.
Everything is going well,
Now that we're on the right course,
we will be able to rest a little and relax.
You remember the tinder fungus will talk or
It is thanks to him that we
want to be able to eat and
warm up, no on board, no lighter,
just a piece of iron that
we strike on a flint to
hoping to ignite the mushroom.
And the most amazing thing is
that once you get the hang of it
by hand, it's super fast,
Emotion,
not
All about smoking.
And despite the inconvenience of the smoke,
a few minutes later,
we can finally enjoy
our little medieval and
enjoy a magnificent sunset
on the English Channel.
So it is with a full stomach that we
let's start our first night at sea.
Everyone finds their place on
board. The boat is moving well.
And we are hopeful of
reaching the Sili Islands before
the arrival of the depression
coming from the west,
but like a bad twist of fate at nightfall,
the wind drops and we
experience one of the greatest
fears of the sailors of the time, the ole,
especially since on Brio,
there is no engine on board.
Go rather quickly.
The sails worked well there,
we see that it is a little for the moment,
calmer in terms of wind.
So we hope that will change.
Because otherwise we won't be able to do it
as you wish today. What?
We'll see a little.
It's a bit of an emotional rollercoaster.
There it is oil and oil.
She wants to last until
two, three o'clock, beat me,
I really hoped we were
ahead of schedule today.
And we didn't get that
much of a head start.
And tomorrow, the wind is
forecast to be a little less strong
that it was originally planned.
So at risk longer than expected.
So unless it works really well
In the middle of the
night, we return to Brittany.
There you go. So we'll see
in the middle of the night.
Deprived of our only
means of moving forward.
We find ourselves tossed about by a
almost stagnant sea.
We are now too far from
the coast to hope for the
wait by rowing, at the
mercy of the currents.
We have no choice but to rely on the
sea and hope for the wind to return.
Ideally, it will be west northwest
to try to be able to follow a
little the road that we are on
planned to go up to the islands.
But when you can light your
way with candles on a ship
open, so to speak,
it's really not a deposit,
Alex on the map can
only observe our slow drift
but certain towards the west,
We are pushed more by the swell than
actually on the route we are
trying to take with the wind.
That's how it is, but
there, it's true that oil,
it's not necessarily
optimal for navigation.
It's a little more complicated with us.
Our food water reserves are still full.
So don't panic on that side,
We still hope that the wind
will return quickly because there
always has this storm coming
The next morning, still no wind.
We wake up on a sea of oil.
We've only been gone for 24 hours.
And in this landscape haloed
for the first time on the journey,
I feel like I'm experiencing
one of the trials that must have
live the monks and
sailors of ancient times.
And then, for the first
time having actually crossed
the time, the
currents brought us almost
back to the height of Car Loen
and now we can fly back to the coast.
And suddenly, I tell
myself that the choice of gu
was really wise.
If we had weighed anchor at
the start of the car, we would have
would be wading in the
middle of the Atlantic without
no way to turn back,
bad luck.
Here we are back to square one.
And I think that these tourists
who came to enjoy the sun do not
didn't really expect this spectacle.
People often ask us what we are,
what are we going to do with it?
And are we Vikings?
So we have that, but in any case,
It's a pretty enigmatic
boat, I think for people and
which do not leave you indifferent.
What? I don't know if it is
because I consider him as a person from
the departure also because
everyone talks about it like a
no one, but it's hard
not to personify this boat
because we really have
the impression that he has a
personality that it is he who decides.
So yes, we say that
brilliance and capriciousness,
but he surely has his
reasons for this evening,
we will stay sheltered in the bay in
waiting for the depression to pass.
We hope to take advantage of the change of
wind and follow in his footsteps.
So last night of peace and
quiet before the big crossing.
And so, the idea is to
have a bed that we can
use other than sleeping.
So, the cape that serves as our coat,
it's going to be one of
our covers, the cover water,
It helps the finest
possible who comes there
as a bonus in comfort.
And after that, we have an
agreement which is exclusive,
but which can also be
used when rowing for not
wear out the effect on
the benches, it's the skin.
So we have a cover skin and that's it.
Ok, second attempt,
the sun rises and we get ready.
The wind is quite strong.
So, to reduce the sail,
we decide to have some rice
here we go.
As we leave the Breton coast behind us,
we begin to notice the
sea left by the storm,
A small one or two meters,
sometimes a little more.
But otherwise, it's going to be a
whole thing that can be agitating.
Well, three meters, I think.
On I
Not the steps but the
five meters of hollow.
Well, you will have
understood, the further we go,
the bigger the sea becomes.
And at that moment, I
wonder if I really have
good thing you got me involved in this,
A little bit of a tug of
war between the swell
and the wind and everything
that pulls to one side, me,
I pull the other one and
we try to see who is right.
Who is it?
How can we believe that this
attempt is not the right one?
When a pod of dolphins
suddenly appears for us
escort out to sea, he plays around
of us testifying.
So from our more than sustained pace,
the westerly winds left by the storm
make it difficult to access the six.
So after escaping the
mist returned to land and
took shelter at Bri Augan,
We are now heading towards England.
The open sea opens up before us and bricks
reveals its marine potential.
But soon, danger looms on the horizon,
a danger that did not exist
1000 years ago and that
Now we will have to face
There. I'm on the eve, we
will soon enter the canal.
And so, so that we are
sufficiently vigilant about
to avoid cargo ships,
something that was not
there in the 10th century, you
Manage to pull down the foremast wall
While the sailors' stories are
populated by sea monsters.
Here we soon discover
very different monsters,
metal giants several hundred meters high
long since brio.
It's true that the view is impressive. I
I'm on the port side, which
is me on the starboard side.
I didn't see,
We are not on the water. And with
the swell, we see that
you go 50 and 80 meters from the street.
And we must imagine that this is not
They are not the ones
who will change course.
There are three on our starboard side,
we are clear about the first two.
There's a small one hidden behind.
So it's up to us to be vigilant.
Dodge change course.
This is it
An unbalanced balance of power lies.
To avoid damaging this building,
we decided to take a slight turn.
We were afraid of their father
having a few holes in the hull.
We didn't get on board
so much that it was closing.
With a knife between his teeth.
It seems a bit ambitious to me and
the catch can't take the effort.
I can't help but wonder
with a small smile on his lips.
What could they have thought
when they saw our boat from
their footbridge, a vestige of
the past that ventures onto a
of the busiest shipping
routes in the modern world.
It must be said that the
feeling of anachronism is strong.
And yet we challenge
these giants on their own turf
of play, them,
their 200 meters long and
their oil and we 12 meters
of leather wood, hemp linen and the
wind as the only fuel.
I must admit that the landscape is very
Impressive.
The pain of the boat's
sails, the people's clothes,
All we see is a form of natural beauty.
So it's actually not necessarily this
that can be seen on all boats
For this crossing. Seamstress
impossible to put up the tent.
So for tonight, it will be
back to back under the stars
A bit normal.
This day was d. It's true that it was
For my part, I am happy with the moment.
Without realizing that it is
the accomplishment, in fact,
the beginning of the
accomplishment of what one works for
for several years.
J. The impression that the
ideal course is that the two stars
to the right of the large one in case
Believe it or not, but those
who are followed that night
are almost magical.
The one who once could
transform the simplest
story in legend while
we were sinking deeper
and deeper into the darkness
from a sea of jets, the waves light up.
Suddenly our passage, let
us draw the Milky Way in our
furrow soon this inert glow
whirled and turned to fly.
Let us draw arabesques
of ephemeral blue light
spectral around us.
When finally darkness
returned to the present moment,
the celestial vault suddenly
tore apart with a burst
dazzling marking the sky
with a burning cloud which
soon faded into darkness more than ever.
During this journey, I really
put myself in the shoes of these
navigators from Milan
sailing in an uncharted ocean
where the unknown
was still draped in magic.
The images from last
night are still present and
now seem like the
fragments of a strange dream
Last night was pretty crazy.
There were plankton dolphins,
the dolphins who were doing
arabesques in the night
plankton with all the stars
from the sky that were
there with all magic,
Still no land in sight.
The second quarter team had to continue its
slalom among the cargo ships.
But that's it, we've passed,
England is reaching out to us.
It's only a matter of time.
The earth is getting closer
and closer. It's going well.
Thought we were going to
have a little rain, but actually
to slip through the net
after everyone is awake on board,
then we have to arrive
For the earth.
Oh,
It's a pleasure.
We are not lost for centuries
and centuries in the middle of
sea, that means we
will end up touching land.
And there we are, the crow.
We are inexorably approaching Pence Bay
after several days at sea,
the setbacks of weather delays.
We finally arrive at the
first stage of Brio's journey.
This little medieval heart
has proven that it is still
able to face the round.
They all don't realize that there is a good
star above brioc first because
No one would think that
such a boat is so seaworthy.
We imagine that it is a boat at best,
an annex for large boats or,
and finally we discover
while sailing with that the ex
extremely marine which
withstands waves of five meters,
a boat that behaved admirably and in fact,
all COS under chance.
All the beauty of what we
experience ultimately brings us back to
a kind of mystical wandering.
We too fall into a species
of faith that we sometimes cannot name
Well done to all
and that's it
At Each Slice
Madness, same madness
with every slice eaten polished,
put his gun there, it's big
there, it's too low, there.
It's too far away there, it's fine.
So yes, it's not really
the drop-off point that we
had thought at first,
but it's part of the game.
You have to know how to adapt.
And there by an almost
providential coincidence,
whose briotte often delights us,
we go up an aber to
discover a resplendent place
of a calm that contrasts
with the tumult of the waters.
This abbey, founded by a
Breton monk in the sixth century
welcomes us as a nod
to the destiny of brio and
to the epic of the monks
who inspired this journey.
And like them, I tell myself that
all this would not have been possible
that by the will of dozens of
people that brilliantly knew how
federate for more than 25 years.
We really have this
idea of an exploit, maybe
it might not work.
We had never done it,
We have a crossing to make.
If someone is a little bit in trouble,
but we will adapt, we
tried to help him, then he,
he tries to help us
when he can and that's it,
It's really a great experience.
These are links for me that
that I will always keep and if Jero
people anywhere I think we can meet this
mind there too, quite easily.
To What
It's not a list of things
I absolutely have to do.
That I checked and it's good.
I can pass, no, no,
I want to continue
doing this kind of thing.
And, and it was brilliance that
made me want to be a sailor.
We all find different things
in this adventure and at
the same time, concretely, the
but it is the same for everyone.
So there is a notion of
dream and at the same time,
It's much less nebulous than that.
We seem to believe
The notion of dream, it comes
up often and we always have
the impression of having dreamed.
And actually, to be very honest,
I haven't had the pangs of waking up yet,
which means I don't understand
what's happening to me.
So we will see if it
has the pinch or if the
life, it's been a happening all along
with briotte everything is possible.
Once this journey is completed,
It is finally time for us to
return to the 21st century,
we decide to leave brio to
the fondant aber of the bay of
pence in the hollow of this forest
Brio will wait for our return
to continue his journey towards
the north and reach its final
destination in Scotland, the island
d.