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A little change with this deck view of some of the trainees taking some leisure with a very traditional maritime activity: making knots. In the old sailing ships, knots making was firstly a necessity to tie the ropes, together or to something. But it developped into a hobby, using decorative forms of the utilitarian knots.
Here the older man with a white tee-shirt, a very experienced trainee, is making a small mat. The man in a white shirt kneeling next to him on the right is the captain for this voyage, Captain Lepson who was of Estonian origin (as a young man probably in the 50's, he escaped from the Russian controlled Estonia in a small dinguy). And the man sitting further on the right in a bleu overall is Christian Pfenninger, a Swiss sailor who had a merchant officer diploma but came on board as a crew member to learn about handling tall ships. So long ago, who is he now (the last time I saw in was in 1996: I was on an American ship arriving in Weymouth Harbour and he was on a British ship, leaving the same harbour...)?

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