Clerkenwell Design Week: things I particularly liked.

A great day out, looking at excellent design

We spent Tuesday at Clerkenwell Design Week, a three day event at where designers of all sorts exhibit their products at various locations in Clerkenwell: mostly furniture, furnishings and lighting, but a whole range of other products including ceramics, graphics, spectacles frames, and wristwatches.

There was much to see, all of it of a very high standard. I was particularly interested in the sort of things that would be suitable for the home, rather than for commercial spaces. These are my personal highlights, the sort of things I would like in my own home, if I could.

Pluck Kitchens

We have been looking around kitchen showrooms, and while there is a lot of good stuff out there, a lot of it is pretty extravagant, and a little flashy for our taste. Pluck are a small firm of joiners in Brixton who have just launched their range of fitted kitchens. I was struck by their simple and restrained designs, and by their choice of colours. Cabinets are made from sustainable birch plywood, to make the most efficient use of the wood, and the surfaces covered with laminate, which is more durable than paint. They also use Sweet Chestnut and London Plane,  British woods not often used for furniture, and locally sourced where possible.  

http://www.pluck.kitchen

The cut-out bit in the the doors and drawers, as an alternative to a doorknob, is elegant and clever:

http://www.pluck.kitchen

http://www.pluck.kitchen

w152 Busby lamp

A very clever, deceptively simple-looking lamp designed by Industrial Facility for Wästberg, with three USB ports that can be used for charging three separate devices. There are two models: Ambient for a more diffuse light, and Directable, for a more focussed beam. The LED lamps are dimmable. Built in to the charger is an intelligent system that detects the power required to charge each device that is connected to each USB port, so that each devoce charges up at its maximum rate, up to 3A (an iPhone plug charger runs at 1A, and iPad plug at 2.1A). The lamps can be free standing or wall-mounted, and are suitable for a whole range of situations, from bedside tables, to offices, to workshops.

http://www.wastberg.com/collections/w152-busby/about/

http://www.wastberg.com/collections/w152-busby/about/

Watch this charming video to get a better idea of the concept:

https://www.wastberg.com/collections/w152-busby/about/

For sale online at
http://www.retailfacility.co.uk/shop/#Busby%20Ambient
http://www.retailfacility.co.uk/shop/#Busby%20Directable

Morfus modular furniture

A range of simple, elegant and robust modular storage units. This British company uses sustainable northern European birch plywood for the units, which are manufactured in Derbyshire. According to the manufacturer, two trees are planted for each one that is used, so that all the CO2 involved in the production of the furniture and the shipping of the raw materials is sequestered. There are quite a few makers of modular furniture, but Morphus are particularly attractive, and I was impressed by their concern for sustainability. The man with the coffee in the picture below is the designer and founder of the company, Tim Williams.

https://twitter.com/ClerkenwellDQ/status/735835441400844289

http://www.morfusuk.com

TedWood

Beautiful finely crafted wood furniture, made from British hardwoods by Ted Jefferis, with clean lines, subtle detailing, and elegant proportions. The tops of the tables and benches are varnished, and show the wood to perfection. The legs are slender and tapered, and sometimes spray painted so that they look as though they could be made of metal. The hexagonal brass bolts, flush with the tabletops, which secure them to the legs, are an attractive feature. 

http://www.tedjefferis.co.uk

http://www.tedjefferis.co.uk

http://www.tedjefferis.co.uk



There was lots more that I saw and liked, but one of the most impressive things I came across was not for sale, or made by professional designers. This seating space in one of the exhibition areas was designed, fabricated and built by a group of GCSE (i.e. high school) students, in collaboration with Scale Rule, a collective of "engineers and architects who like teaching, designing, building and learning"

Here is a detail, showing the parts labelled for assembly:

To find out more about this project, there is a free online book.

All in all, it was a fun day out. We saw a lot of beautiful, well-designed things, and it was good to see that many of the makers seemed genuinely concerned with sustainability of their products. If you are interested in design, it's worth taking a day off to visit this show, which does not seem to take place on the weekend.

Boiled lamb

Originally an English dish, mostly eaten in France these days, it seems.

I’m not quite sure why, but I'm rather curious about the old English dish of boiled mutton and caper sauce. Perhaps it’s a vision of the sort of people you see in Rowlandson cartoons or Hogarth paintings tucking into vast joints of meat, washed down with several pints of claret.

The Dinner. From 'The Comforts Of Bath'. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). 

Handcoloured Aquatint, 1798.

http://madamepickwickartblog.com/2010/04/healing-waters-bubbling-passions/

According to a 2014 BBC Radio 4 documentary, mutton was highly prized in England until the 19th century, but fell out of favour and was replaced by lamb. This was partly to do with the fact that good mutton was delicious, but poor quality mutton could be very tough, whereas lamb was more consistent in its quality. In the 1960s and 1970s, the invention of synthetic fabrics lead to reduced demand for wool, which pushed sheep rearing into further decline

There have been some efforts to promote a revival of mutton, but as far as I can tell it doesn't seem to have caught on so far. I haven’t seen it on restaurant menus except in stews, and they don’t sell mutton in my local supermarket. I might try to get it from a halal butcher. According to the radio programme, the mutton sold in halal shops is fresh, and not aged in the way it would be in the English tradition, but it's worth a try, I think.

I have, however, had boiled leg of lamb, from a recipe in French Home Cooking by Paul Bocuse.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/French-Home-Cooking-Paul-Bocuse/dp/0246134739/

Boiled lamb seems also to have died out in England but it's a French classic, known as “gigot à l’anglaise”. Incidentally, according to various surveys, the most popular French dish is steak and chips, which may also be of English origin, as suggested by in this 17th century menu which I saw at the Musée Cognacq-Jay, listing “beef-stakes”, as well as "rosbiff".

Last weekend I thought it would be nice to have boiled leg of lamb, but the Bocuse cookbook had been packed away in anticipation of an impending house refurbishment, so I looked online for guidance. Based more or less on this recipe, I put chopped carrots, an onion studded with cloves, some celery, a head of garlic, a bay leaf, a bunch of parsley, and some fresh rosemary into a pot. I had planned to add a stock cube, but while shopping for the lamb, I found that my local Morrison’s supermarket had some lamb bones, so I used those instead. (My branch of Morrison’s are very good in that way: they regularly stock marrow bones, beef bones, chopped heart, and so on).

After adding water and bringing the whole lot to the boil, I simmered the lamb (a 1 kg leg portion, just right for two people) for about an hour. The recipe recommended 15-20 minutes per 500g but I had made a mistake and overdone it a bit. The meat was delicious and tender nevertheless. It's clearly a robust and forgiving method of cooking.

Previously, I had served the lamb with sauce gribiche, in accordance with the recipe in Bocuse. It had been a very good accompaniment but now I wanted caper sauce, which I had read about, but never before tasted. Using a recipe from the Guardian, I made the caper sauce with butter, cream, lamb stock from the cooking pot, parsley and lemon juice. I added rather more capers than they advised, which a good decision. The quantity of sauce was meant for eight people, but we found it about right for the two of us.

Served with boiled carrots and Jersey Royals, this was an excellent dish. I imagine the technique would suit the stronger and fuller flavour of mutton, and I must try that some time.

Just to finish off, this is a recipe I found on Flickr from the Bestway Cookery Gift Book (Fourth Book), published in 1929, in England.

I think a bit of French influence has been a good thing as far as this English dish is concerned.

Bamboo bikes and buildings

At the Grand Designs Live show in London last weekend, I saw a bamboo bicycle for the first time, at a stand run by the Bamboo Bicycle Club. I’d heard about them, and it seemed like a nice idea, but this was the first time I’d seen one in the flesh. It was light, and felt strong. I’m not looking for a new bike right now, but if I were, I’d be strongly tempted to sign up for one of their workshops, and make one for myself.

http://bamboobicycleclub.org/?portfolio=bills-bamboo-bike

Seeing the bikes got me thinking of buildings I had seen online which were made from bamboo. There seems to have been a lot of interest recently in using bamboo as a building material. It's strong and light, and considered to be one of the more environmentally friendly materials, because compared to conventional timber, it grows very rapidly and can be harvested after a much shorter time. 

I did wonder about its durability, because growing up in a place where clothes were dried on bamboo poles, I had seen how quickly they deteriorated. I have learnt that untreated bamboo lasts for less than 2 years outdoors, and only about 5 to 7 years if stored under cover. Bamboo also has a high starch content which makes if vulnerable to fungi, mould, and insects. However, it can be treated chemically, which extends its lifespan to about 25 years.

I'm not in a position to assess the technical and environmental aspects of bamboo for myself, but the evidence so far seems to suggest that it is a promising material with lots of potential for our time.

Green School in Bali, by Ibuku

http://inhabitat.com/the-green-school-showcases-bamboo-construction-in-indonesia/

http://qz.com/367284/spectacular-bamboo-architecture/

Bamboo Hostels in Baoxi, China, by Anna Heringer

Low cost housing in Vietnam by (steel frame, lightweight walls of layered corrugated polycarbonate and bamboo), by Vo Truong Nghia architects 

http://www.dezeen.com/2012/11/30/low-cost-house-by-vo-trong-nghia-architects/

Multi-storey car park, The Hague, Netherlands (babmboo exterior cladding)

http://www.guaduabamboo.com/construction/bamboo-parking-garage-the-hague

German-Chinese House, Shanghai World Expo, by Markus Heinsdorff and MUDI (load-bearing bamboo)

http://inhabitat.com/shanghai-expo-bamboo-german-chinese-house-glows-like-a-lantern/

Some people are now suggesting that skyscrapers can be built using bamboo as the structural material. Here are some of the winning entries in the Singapore Bamboo Skyscraper Competition

http://www.e-architect.co.uk/competitions/singapore-bamboo-skyscraper-competition

http://www.e-architect.co.uk/competitions/singapore-bamboo-skyscraper-competition

Here is a proposal by CRG architects

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/dont-worry-a-bamboo-skyscraper-would-be-very-strong

Are these megastructures really feasible? Somehow I doubt it, at least not at present, although I don't have the technical knowledge to make that judgement.

Anyway, the smaller scale projects that have actually been built look attractive, and there's a lot to be said for a material that's cheap, light, and environmentally friendly. I don't think I'll end up living in a bamboo house, except on holiday, but if I get a new bicycle, it might be made of bamboo.

A toddle through 20th and 21st century architecture at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford

Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, where I have worked since late 1995, was opened in 1940 as a tuberculosis sanatorium. Over the years, it grew to become the main hospital serving the town and the surrounding areas. As it outgrew the original premises, bits and pieces were added, but although some parts were partially demolished, nothing was completely knocked down and rebuilt. The end result is rather muddled, but an interesting catalogue of different architectural styles, and rather attractive in it's own way.

The original TB sanatorium was an elegant modern construction, with two long south-facing wings, designed so that the patients could get as much sunlight as possible.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robmcrorie/8376350205

http://www.fabh.org/hospital-history/

Much of it was standing when I first arrived, but the side wings were later knocked down, and today this is all that remains. It's now somewhere at the back of the hospital, facing a car park.

The South Wing, with it's art deco doorway, also dates from that time.

Planning for the next phase of development began in the 1970s. After the usual delays, construction seems to have started in the 1980s. This was the main entrance to the hospital when I started working there, a building of the time, with it’s brick and concrete facade. It doesn’t look particularly distinguished, although it’s a little hard to tell, as I suspect that some bits might have been tacked on later. This sort of architecture has not been popular in the past, but in recent years, brutalism and concrete have become fashionable again. I think it does have a certain appeal, though this is perhaps not always easy to discern right now with all the skips and other utilities along the road outside.

The next expansion occurred in the 1990s, known at the time as “Project Alpha”. As you can see it’s a mediocre post-modern construction, typical of that rather unfortunate period, with pediments, string courses, and so on, tacked on for that "traditional" look. Quite frankly, it’s not to my taste. What, exactly, is the point of those silly little balls at the top? The less said about it the better.  Fortunately, it's not too obtrusive, and it's OK on the inside.

The most recent phase was completed in 2010. Modernism was back, thank goodness. The result is an inoffensive building, typical of its time, with a rather pleasant light filled atrium at the main entrance.

I haven’t mentioned the oldest building, Broomfield Court, built in 1904 as a manor house, and a rather nice example of t's type.

It currently houses the IT department and some other admin-type services. The hospital management used to be there too, but some years ago they moved out of their splendid isolation into the main hospital where the action was, which was the right thing to do. In case you're wondering, the current inhabitants are definitely not housed in the style to which the original owners were accustomed.

Whatever you might think about the architecture, the grounds are remarkably pleasant. There are trees and woodlands all around, and the green areas are very well planted and maintained. There are in fact two designated nature reserves within the hospital grounds, one of which I walk past on my way from the car park. The other is on my route to and from home if I choose to travel on foot. My father, an architect, thought that architecture was in may ways not as important as town planning or the environment in which the buildings were situated. Broomfield Hospital illustrates this point rather nicely. The architecture is of variable quality, but thanks to the gardens and the greenery, the general effect is very pleasing.

Zheng He, Gavin Menzies, and the supposed Ming Dynasty circumnavigation of the world

Fantasy masquerading as history

Between 1405 and 1433, during the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese eunuch admiral Zheng He (also known as Cheng Ho) led a large fleet on seven voyages to South-East Asia, India, Arabia, and the African coast, to extend Chinese influence in the area. They dispensed and received gifts, made diplomatic contacts, brought back to ostriches, camels, zebras and a giraffe, and defeated notorious pirates. By the end of his final voyage, state policy had changed. Travel abroad was now discouraged, and China turned in upon herself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He

Some years ago I came across a book by Gavin Menzies called 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, an account of how Zheng He’s voyages were more far reaching than had previously been thought. I finally got round to reading on board the sailing vessel Europa, on a voyage from the Azores to Amsterdam, where the book was in the ship’s library.

The author described how his research, along with personal insights from his time in the Royal Navy, had led him to conclude that Zheng He and his ships had, in the course of their voyages, worked out a way to calculate longitude, visited Australia and New Zealand, North and South America, sailed round Cape Horn, circumnavigated the globe, and even landed in Antarctica, leaving behind traces of their visits, as well as settlers from whom some indigenous populations were said to be descended. This was pretty incredible stuff. It was an interesting story, although there did seem to be a lot of conjecture as well.

When I got back to England and to internet access, I thought I’d look into this a little more. It turned out that Menzies had attracted quite a lot of attention from academics in the field. His claims have been refuted in exhaustive detail, collated in the website www.1421exposed.com .

Map showing the supposed voyages of the Ming fleet, according to Menzies

http://www.1421exposed.com/html/1421_and_all_that_junk.html

There are, it would appear, no records of any Ming Dynasty voyages beyond Asia, the Middle East or the East coast of Africa. Menzies describes various wrecks, as well as structures constructed by the Chinese visitors all over the world. None of these have ever been found. He claims that the Venetian, Nicolò da Conti, travelled with the Chinese fleet, and brought Chinese maps back to Europe, which were used by the Portuguese when they set out on their voyages of discovery. Yet da Conti, who left copious accounts of his travels, mentions none of this. And so on.

The whole business reminds me of Erich von Däniken who wrote a whole series of books, starting with Chariots of the Gods?, in which he claimed that aliens from outer space had visited Earth and influenced early human culture. He believed that structures like Stonehenge and the Easter Island statues could not have been built by humans at the time without assistance from more technologically advanced civilisation, i.e. his extra-terrestrial visitors. I read a couple of his books in the 1970s as a teenager, and I remember they were quite popular at that time. Not that I believed him for a minute. Perish the thought.

Skilful alternative practitioners, whether of medicine or history, always seem to attract a substantial following. The notion that early Chinese voyagers might have visited and settled every continent on earth before the Europeans, in the largest wooden sailing ships ever built, seems to find a ready audience. Not only are the the Chinese explorers supposed to have circumnavigated the globe and provided the maps that enabled the Europeans to set out on their subsequent trans-oceanic ventures, but in his subsequent book, 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance, Menzies claims that in that year, a Chinese fleet arrived in Tuscany, with ambassadors who met with the Pope Eugenius IV. The Chinese are supposed to have provided knowledge that led to the Renaissance. As in 1421, there is no evidence for this. Nevertheless, Menzies is an honorary professor at Yunnan University, has spoken at a conference organised by the Library of Congress, and has a keen following. His books are to be found on the history shelves of bookshops, rather than in the fiction section.

Zheng He seems to have become a bit of a cult figure in recent years, adopted by the Chinese communist party as a national hero, and a symbol of China’s openness to the world. The innovations of Chinese marine technology, such as watertight compartments and balanced rudders, are well known. The junk rig is highly efficient, and has been adopted on many modern cruising yachts. Zheng He did lead an enormous fleet of a few hundred ships all the way to Africa. But it is pretty certain that they did not circumnavigate the globe, visit Greenland and Antarctica, or provide the impetus for the Portuguese voyages of discovery, or the impetus for the Italian Renaissance.

Refs:
Gavin Menzies' website http://www.gavinmenzies.net
The '1421' myth exposed http://www.1421exposed.com
(Judge for yourself)

Book Review: City of Fortune: How Venice won and lost a naval empire, by Roger Crowley

A well-written and engrossing account of the rise and decline of the Venetian empire

As this year’s birthday present from my wife, I will be receiving in the post one book every month from Daunt Books, selected personally by their staff, based on the things that interest me. The first book to arrive was City of Fortune, by Roger Crowley, the story of “How Venice won and lost a naval empire”

Venice grew from a small settlement built on marshy islands in a lagoon, to become a wealthy trading city, controlling much of the trade between East and West. This was inextricably linked with sea power, and Venice was in the middle ages the greatest naval power in Europe and the Mediterranean. There are lots of books about Venice, but I don't know of any other popular (i.e. non-academic) histories that tell the story of the Venetian maritime empire.

The book covers the period from around 1000 to around 1500. In the early years, the Venetians subdued the pirates around the Adriatic and became the dominant naval power in their area. Then in the early 1200s they got involved in the notorious Fourth Crusade, when they were engaged to transport the crusaders to the Holy Land. As part of the deal, they stopped along the way of to reassert their authority over their possessions in the Adriatic. As a result of various intrigues, involving rival claimants to the Byzantine throne, the crusader force ended up at Constantinople, at that time the greatest and richest Christian city on earth. Constantinople was attacked, sacked and plundered in 1204. The crusaders never made it to Jerusalem. The Byzantine Empire was fatally weakened, while Venice became rich on the loot, acquired more colonies, and became even more powerful.

It goes on to tell the story of how the Venetians overcame other rivals in the Mediterranean, notably the Genoese, who came close to conquering and occupying Venice itself. Ultimately Venice triumphed. Although the Genoese were more than a match for them militarily, the Venetian state was better organised and more stable, which made all the difference in the long run. Then the Ottoman Turks became the dominant power in the Mediterranean and by the 1500s, the days of Venetian naval supremacy were over. Venice would still be prosperous for many years, until Napoleon invaded in 1797, but the days of glory were over, and the slow decline had begun.

The book is written in a fast-paced style, at times almost like a novel, and I found it an easy and entertaining read. Incidentally, although it might look like a naval history, it's aimed at the general reader, not the naval enthusiast. There were several things about it which made an impression on me. 

I had known the story of the Fourth Crusade in outline. The Venetians were at that time the only people with the resources to transport a large crusader force by sea across the Mediterranean However I had not appreciated the extent to which for Venice it had been such a high-risk undertaking. More or less the entire economy of the Republic had to be diverted towards the enterprise.

I knew of the Venetian possessions in the Mediterranean, which even today have Venetian buildings and clock towers, and which display the winged lion of St Mark, the emblem of Venice. However, I had not appreciated how badly the local inhabitants in their colonies were treated. We are often told how, compared to the chaotic despotism elsewhere in Italy, Venice was a model of enlightened good government (for that time). This did not apply in their colonies, which were regarded as purely economic and military resources. In their colony of Crete, the Venetians were hated by the locals. There were frequent revolts, which were put down harshly.

We live in troubled times today, with unpleasant conflicts around the world, in which innocent civilians are bombed and killed. Reading this book reminded me that things in the past were much worse. They may not have had the means to wreak death and destruction on a massive industrial scale as we do today, but they were pretty horrid. Wholesale massacres seem to have been the norm during warfare. Torture was accepted as routine. Prisoners captured by the Turks might be impaled or sawn in half. Turkish pirate chiefs who were captured by the Venetians were roasted alive at the end of an oar.

We might talk of cut-throat business practices, but this was often literally true for merchants in the middle ages. Life for them could be dangerous, with the constant threat of piracy at sea, periodic fights between merchants from different countries, and the risk of imprisonment, or worse, if they were abroad when the political climate changed. Being an aristocrat was no protection. Venice in the middle ages might have been one of the richest and most powerful states, but even for the well-off, things were pretty tough and precarious.

City of Fortune: How Venice won and lost a naval empire, by Roger Crowley.
http://www.rogercrowley.co.uk/city.htm

This the sort of subscription I received for my birthday:
https://www.dauntbooks.co.uk/products-page/subscriptions/

The beating heart of the modern sailing ship: the engine room

A tall ship, a star to steer her by, perhaps … but never without the engine these days

If you have the inclination to re-live the great age of sail, you can sign on as paying crew on board a tall ship. By this I mean a sailing vessel, with several masts, and square sails, like this one. 

http://www.classic-sailing.co.uk/vessels/bark-europa

You participate sailing the ship, steer it, and take your turn on watch. You also get to climb up the mast to handle the sails (optional, I hasten to add). No experience is required, as you will be taught the skills necessary. I’ve been on three trips in three different vessels, and they were very different, but all were run by people of great skill and dedication, who clearly loved what they were doing.

While at the wheel, pulling on a rope, or up aloft furling the sails, you might almost imagine that you were on the Cutty Sark, racing to carry tea back to England from China. However there is one important difference. Until the 20th century, these ships were engineless. Today, every tall ship has an engine, and could not function without it. The engine might be something that some sailing enthusiasts try to ignore, but it’s absolutely indispensable. 

Engine room of the Pelican

http://www.easternyachts.com/pelicanoflondon/engine.htm

It’s not just required to get in and out of crowded modern moorings, or to get out of calm spells in order to keep to the advertised schedule. Today’s sailing vessels all require electricity for a host of functions, and this has to be generated by the engine. There’s all the navigational equipment required by law in passenger-carrying vessels: satnav to fix the position of the ship at sea, echo sounders to measure the depth of water below, and equipment to receive weather forecasts. I don't think anyone these days uses a sextant for navigation, or uses a lead line to determine the depth of the water, except as a training exercise or for fun.

http://thejovialcrew.com/?page_id=580

Even a basic task like steering the ship is often done with mechanical assistance these days. Many of today's tall ships have hydraulically assisted steering wheels. In the old vessels, a lot of force was required to turn the wheel of a large ship, and in strong winds, when the forces on the rudder were greater, more than one crew member would be required. On larger ships, there was a double wheel.

http://intheboatshed.net/2009/07/24/nmmc-exhibition-commemorates-the-last-commercial-windjammer-cape-horn-voyage/the-crew-at-the-wheel-of-passat-holger-thesleff/

In the old engineless sailing ships, raising the anchor was a labour-intensive task, that could take several hours, with the crew at the capstan bars. 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capstan.jpg

In the ships I sailed in this was always done by machine. There are some ships where they weigh anchor in the old fashioned way, but I’m guessing that they all have a machine to do it when they are short-handed, or need to make a quick getaway. 

In the past, the washing up could be done in sea water, and the waste thrown over the side. These days, standards of hygiene are more stringent. Environmental concerns mean that all waste is stored on board, for disposal at a suitable facility. That includes waste from the toilets. Nothing is thrown into the sea, not even an orange peel. In my experience, the only time that anything could be chucked over the side was when someone was seasick. Water is also used much more lavishly than in the past. A daily shower is the norm, even though the responsible crew member will try to keep water consumption to a minimum. Many ships have equipment to generate fresh water from sea water. All this of course requires electricity.

I've had a fantastic time on all the tall ship voyages I've undertaken. I'd thought about it for ages, and then, a few years ago, I broke my shoulder during a fall. After I recovered I decided that it was time to give it a go. I suspect that most of us who do it do feel that in a small way we are experiencing something of what it was like to go to sea in a sailing ship in the olden days. However the constant hum of the engine in the background, even when under sail should remind us that we are very much in our own time.

So far I have sailed on the following tall ships, and I'd recommend all of them:

Stavros Niarchos http://tallships.org/voyages/the-fleet/tall-ship/

Pelican of London http://www.adventureundersail.com

Europa https://www.barkeuropa.com