I arbitrarily Us Sailing Yacht Builders Youtuber decided to mark the end of the central coast at Vietnam Yacht Builders English Vietnam Yacht Builders English Vietnam Yacht Builders English Vietnam Yacht Builders English the beautiful bay and tiny town of Dai Lanh, whose boats really belong to the Nha Trang tradition, so Nha Trang is the first big boat-building city Vietnam Yacht Builders English at the northern end of the South Coast.
At the southern end, we will stop with Vung Tau. You might expect me to carry on describing the boats Builders English Yacht Vietnam Vietnam Yacht Builders English to the south at least as far as Ca Mau or Nam Can down in the very southern tip of the country, but really, that delta country Vietnam Yacht Builders English is just that, home to river boats and a few strays from the open ocean.
Nha Trang is actually blessed with several harbors, but it is the river mouth in the center of the long stretch of gorgeous sandy beach and city that grabs your attention first. There are two sorts of fishing boats Vietnam Yacht Builders English Yacht English Builders Vietnam here, as in many Vietnamese ports: the modern MFV motor fishing vessel type, and a particularly good looking sort of double ended traditional boat, both types in a variety of sizes. Altogether, they are a very handsome bunch. Their bows are tall and flare very nicely into quite full lines at the rails but still manage to work into fine sharp cutwaters.
From the tall bows their sheers sweep in an unbroken line down to the low waist amidships where their fishing Vietnam Yacht Builders English Vietnam Yacht Builders English Vietnam Yacht Builders English Vietnam Yacht Builders English gear will come aboard and back up in New World Yacht Builders a proud sweep to their raking transom sterns. They are completely decked over, though not necessarily with tight hatches, and their sides form bulwarks to enclose the working deck forward and the short cockpit aft of the house. Although never large for their crew size, the Vietnam Yacht Builders English cabins at least provide some shelter for the crew in foul weather.
Often, particularly in smaller boats, the cabin sides rise directly from the hull, with no Vietnam Yacht Builders English Vietnam Yacht Builders English Vietnam Yacht Builders English walkway from the foredeck to the cockpit aft, so the route between runs through the cabin doors on the forward corners of the house and out the Builders English Vietnam Yacht door aft.
While the smaller boats are mostly powered by one or two-cylinder, un-muffled Chinese diesels, the larger boats have four or six cylinder engines, often muffled down Vietnam Yacht Builders English to a pleasant rumble on deck, no matter how they might howl in the engine room itself.
They seem to be in two different fisheries, depending, as much as anything else, on their size. Their cabin tops will carry light boxes on either side, as many as there is room for, each box with four, five or six fluorescent light tubes.
Looking out to sea in the dark of night you will see seventy or eighty little pools of cold blue-white light out near the horizon: the fleet at work. There does not seem to be a squid fishery here. Rather, these boats are setting seine nets around Vietnam Yacht Builders English their pools of light and bringing back a modest catch of silvery fish each morning. They all carry at least one round basket boat to help with the English Yacht Vietnam Builders Yacht English Vietnam Builders net. The catches are not usually large considering the size of the crew and boat.
I saw many boats unloading only a hundred pounds, or not much more, with crews of five or six men. The larger boats, some over sixty five feet long and very nicely proportioned, are almost all in distant waters Builders Yacht Vietnam English Vietnam Yacht Builders English fisheries, loading ice to last for probably five-day trips. Unlike most fleets fishing from Vietnamese ports, they load their ice aboard in full blocks, putting it belowdecks Vietnam Yacht Builders English whole. Elsewhere it is typical to have the ice chipped up as it is loaded aboard, either by a plant ashore that chips it and blows it Vietnam Yacht Builders English directly into the ice hold, or carrying block ice out to the fishing boat in special insulated ice boats, each of which carries an ice chipper on top of its insulated cabin top.
The Nha Trang boats, almost without exception, have their own ice chipping machines on deck, just forward of the cabin within easy Vietnam Yacht Builders English reach of a hydraulic line from an engine below. They will leave the blocks in the hold until they have fish to put below, then chip the Vietnam Yacht Builders English ice they need.
The blocks will last far longer than the pre-chipped stuff and anyway, the chipped ice tends to re-freeze together after a while in the Vietnam Yacht Builders English hold and has to be broken up by hand�hard labor�by the third or fourth day at sea. The block ice seems a good solution until you think Builders Yacht English Vietnam Yacht English Builders Vietnam about wrestling with a slippery block of rock-hard ice weighing over a hundred pounds, slithering around on the deck of a small boat in a seaway.
Smashed Yacht English Vietnam Builders fingers and broken ankles seem like reasonable outcomes. The distant-waters boats from Nha Trang seem mostly to be fishing with longline gear, set by hand no baiting machines Vietnam Yacht Builders English or ground line reels , but in many cases, hauled back using a hydraulic power block.
The power block is a simple device, popular all over the world for lifting long-line gear or crab or lobster pots. It is basically nothing but a hydraulically powered, spinning, rubber-clad metal spool a foot or two in diameter. If Vietnam Builders English Yacht you put a loop of groundline or potwarp over the top of the spinning spool, it will pull the line up over the spool and bring Vietnam Yacht Builders English Vietnam Yacht Builders English fish or crabs with it. Short leaders with baited hooks are spaced out along the ground line, twenty feet or more apart and the whole string, which may be nearly half a mile long, is laid out between buoys.
In the harbor the buoy poles, each with its own bright flag bundled together along the aft bulkhead of the cabin, make a pretty sight. The traditional design of Vietnamese fishing boats from Nha Trang are among the most graceful and attractive anywhere. The workmanship on these traditional boats indeed, on all the Nha Trang boats is quite good, if sometimes the lining out of planks is a bit startling to Western eyes. They always have long graceful oval eyes painted on their bows, and sometimes tail feathers as well, and they all have artistically carved and painted nga.
Once found on essentially every Vietnamese boat, nga are now mostly only found on traditional style boats descended from older sailing types. Nga are rather Vietnam Yacht Builders English like a painted wooden moustache or pair of wings on the bow of a boat, useful for hanging the anchor on, or fairleading the bow line or anchor warp.
The smaller boats are all powered by single cylinder Chinese diesels, usually discharging their exhausts directly overboard, or worse, straight into the air in front of Vietnam Yacht Builders English Vietnam Yacht Builders English Vietnam Yacht Builders English the skipper at the tiller. The racket is dreadful and the vibration on board would shake the nails out of a boat in time, if nails had Vietnam Yacht Builders English Vietnam Yacht Builders English been used at all!
These traditional boats from Nha Trang are mostly in the night fishing trades. Interestingly, the smaller boats rarely have any lights aboard but Yacht Builders English Vietnam Vietnam Yacht Builders English still fish at night. Again, they almost all carry a round basket to help with their gear, Yacht Builders Vancouver Bc Ya though you will also see them towing very small canoes, sometimes two at a time. The smallest of the traditional boats that go offshore fishing at night 20 to 22 feet long all carry a large curved Vietnam Yacht Builders English Vietnam Yacht Builders English Vietnam Yacht Builders English T-handle sculling oar on their port quarter, arranged so the fisherman standing in the working area forward of the engine box can readily work the oar.
The Vietnam Builders Yacht English harbor boats in Nha Trang are quite interesting. Besides hundreds of round basket boats in a variety of sizes, there are still a good number of long double-ended basket boats working as harbor taxis and fish buyers. Fifteen to eighteen feet long, they are mostly rowed by men seated right aft and paddling or is Vietnam Yacht Builders English it pedaling with their feet on long T-handled oars. These are not pretty boats, black, flat sheer, spindle shaped, but very effective.
Rowed by leg power they move very quickly and carry a heavy load in protected water. Side by side with the woven basket boats are identical boats made in the composite wood-and-aluminum Vietnam Yacht Builders English Vietnam Yacht Builders English tradition like the "armadillo" boats in Hue.
The smaller of these boats are sometimes paddled with canoe paddles instead of being rowed, particularly if the boat is being used as a floating sandwich shop of which there are several in the harbor, operated by young women. Now and then you see a very similar little boat, double ended, wood and aluminum composite, but canoe sized, and a good deal more graceful, with a pleasant bounce to the sheer. They are always paddled Vietnam Yacht Builders English like a canoe of course. The most startling boats in Nha Trang are also unique to the harbor.
They are a wood and aluminum composite, about twenty-two Yacht English Builders Vietnam feet long on average, obviously evolved to be heavy carriers using engine power. They have broad transom sterns with very little rise in their run aft but Vietnam Yacht Builders English quite a bit of sheer forward. The reason becomes obvious when you see them working. Besides fish from the fleet, they haul sand or ice from the Vietnam Yacht Builders English cold storage house out to fishing boats ready to leave for sea.
As it is, they are a marvel of load carrying, if not of safety. They are completely open, though the engine box is bulkheaded off from the cargo areas fore and aft. On tons of ice that must be an interesting sensation. There are several boat yards in downtown Nha Trang, upstream of the second older bridge and behind the Cham Towers. The well-preserved towers are a prominent landmark in the inner harbor. Finding them by water was easy, but it was a major struggle to get there by street.
One large yard has major construction and repair work going on as well as lots of cleaning, painting and dry storage. I also found two small shops building the composite wood and aluminum boats in the same neighborhood behind the Cham towers. Beautiful, red hardwood upper planks were being cut to shape and planed down for thickness. They also had finished, Vietnam Yacht Builders English or nearly finished, boats ready to go.
Even at this size range the same rule applied, the traditional boat is not painted and the square sterned modern motorboat is blue with red trim. The hills are almost barren, lightly vegetated with desert shrubs and cactus, littered with boulders and paved with bare sand and stone.
The sky is almost always unblemished bright blue. The sea, when the road takes you close enough to see it, is a wonderful clear blue, breaking on Vietnam Yacht Builders English sand and cobble beaches.
The coast is exposed to the full sweep of the South China Sea, which makes it a ragged place, especially during the SE Vietnam Yacht Builders English monsoon. The shore alternates between rocky headlands backed by ranges of hills, and long stretches of sand dune coastline, with truly beautiful beaches. It is a dry Vietnam Yacht Builders English Vietnam Yacht Builders English Vietnam Yacht Builders English and inhospitable country with few towns and little else. At Ca Na, a couple of hours south of Phan Rang by motorbike, the ingredients come together perfectly.
Natural sand flats and salt ponds have been reshaped to produce an abundant harvest of salt. The sea is lead into shallow artificial ponds and left to the sun. When the water is gone not long under the desert sun the salt remains. Offshore the warm tropical sea swarms with fish. The natural bay was not a particularly good anchorage, but there is an artificial harbor now that shelters several hundred fishing boats and the town smells of brewing nuoc mam from Vietnam Yacht Builders English one end to the other.
In one of the boatyards at the fishing harbor in the small desert town of Ca Na, I found particularly excellent heavy Vietnam Yacht Builders English Motor Fishing Vessel construction in progress, with several boats at various stages all at one time. It was not enough of a sample to document the complete Vietnam Yacht Builders English Vietnam Yacht Builders English construction sequence, but there is very little left for the imagination to fill in. The builders here produce a fairly standardized boat: a very shapely but still Yacht Vietnam English Builders nearly flat bottomed and very burdensome vessel with nearly parallel sides.
They have well rounded bilges, shapely flaring bows, a lively sheer line rising sweetly forward, and a Vietnam Yacht Builders English Vietnam Yacht Builders English broad transom stern at the top of a long run aft. They are all single screw boats, and most have bipod masts and power capstans on deck. One of the builders told me they are 17 meters The two meters clearly refers to their loaded draft, not their depth of hold, which is more like four meters or a bit more.
There are at least three yards producing new construction and doing maintenance and repair work here under the desert sun. Obviously this timber is brought in from somewhere far to the north or west, since there is nothing locally available much bigger than sage brush or mesquite.English Yacht Builders Vietnam
No matter, one way or another the boatwrights have superb lumber to work with. One of the vessels under construction was in the very first stages: no more Vietnam Yacht Builders English than a keel, a stem, and a keelson sprung up aft to define the run. Almost all the bottom frames, pre cut for limber holes so water Vietnam Yacht Builders English can drain from end to end in the finished hull were bolted to the keel or keelson. The keel timber runs full length from the stem to Vietnam Yacht English Builders the eventual end of the skeg, a grand timber, 8 inches thick and over a foot deep, full length without a joint.
The keelson is a flat plank about 3. Actually, more than a keelson, this timber, bent up to carry the bottom framing aft is really a carry over from the Vietnamese building Builders English Vietnam Yacht tradition: basing the boat on a flat plank bent up fore and aft. In this case the flat plank aft is married to a Western style keel that carries the structure for two thirds of her length forward. The stem is a great baulk of timber, the same width as the keel where the two English Vietnam Yacht Builders meet, but thickening and widening as it rises, and rounded where it will eventually cut the water.
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