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At the following link there is an interesting collection of old European working ship. Album names are in Italian but they mostly refers to geographic locations that should be easily comprehensible.

http://picasaweb.google.com/2relampago

Gianluigi

Grazie, Gianluigi.

Those are very interesting photos.

I am curious to know what kind of "sail" is on the front of these two boats.



The above image was from the Chioggia gallery (https://picasaweb.google.com/2relampago/Chioggia#)

I spent some time in San Francisco quite a few years ago and there are still some boats of Italian heritage surviving there ...



... some more that no longer exist ...



Cheers,
Tom

Tom,
Chioggia is a town in the lagoon of Venice, traditionally famous for shipyards and fishermen that used to operate in the lagoon, in the Adriatic Sea and in the delta of the Po river.
I'm not a fisher, but I think that the thing in the front is not a sail, but a particular net, called "nassa", that works as a trap for fishes.

If you love these boats, every year there is a raid nearby Venice http://www.velaraid.it/eng/index.html
I'd like to participate with my Weekender, but at the moment I'm not ready for it (I have not good sails, I have to buy a trailer, find time, wife approval....), but may be that you can.
Gianluigi