23/08/2026
A boatyard is the hardest customer we get. That is why we like them.
Chantier naval Marée Haute has been at Trégunc, in the Finistère, for more
than twenty years — building Django sailing yachts end to end, and running
the whole service side: mechanics, keels and rudders, composite and timber,
rigging, winter storage.
Three things make that coast interesting to us:
→ Finistère means finis terrae, the end of the earth. Weather arriving there
has crossed the Atlantic without meeting anything first.
→ A yard’s heavy season is autumn to spring — hivernage, carénage,
aérogommage, refits. That is the darkest half of the year, and on the
Breton coast it is also the windiest. The work and the wind peak together.
→ A hull and a turbine blade are the same object: a shape whose only job is
to move through a fluid without wasting energy. They laminate their own
hulls. We cut our own blades. Same reason.
And the honest half, which we would rather write down than have you discover:
salt corrodes our hardware too, a big shed is a big wind shadow, and one
small turbine contributes to a yard’s load — it does not answer it. Measure
the site. Look at what the yard actually draws in February.
Full post — link in bio.
Coast photograph: licensed stock. Map and seasonal chart: drawn by us from
public coordinate data; the chart is schematic, not measured. The two films
on the blog post are Marée Haute’s own work, embedded from their channel.
