Boat Cemetery of Camaret-sur-Mer

The Camaret-sur-Mer boat cemetery is on the site of the François-Joseph Keraudren shipyard. Groundings are voluntary (reverse of groundings) for aesthetic purposes. The area is a furrow - a cord of natural pebbles like that of the English in Landévennec and that of Pâl in the same way - laid out by man on the road serving the port. Another boat cemetery is known on the Crozon peninsula, a military one, in Landévennec.
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1/2 Another ship cemetery that is definitely worth seeing is a few km east in the small town of Rostellec:
. Here photographers can get very close to the sailors' rotting old boats. Some of the ships have deteriorated over time to such an extent that only their frames are reminiscent of the boat shape. This place is even more interesting than the one here in Camaret-sur-mer.
In Brittany and elsewhere there are various beaches and estuaries where old boats and shipwrecks rot. This has little to do with cost-effective disposal. For the former boat owners, this has to do with an old tradition that every boat has a soul and the prevailing belief is that scrapping a long-serving boat brings bad luck. The boats are moored to the beach or shore for the last time and left to their fate.

2/2 The weather and the tides now do the rest after years of work - nature is gradually retrieving the raw materials. On relatively young ships you can see the paint peeling off, rust is spreading on all the metal, and on boats that have been aground for a long time, towards the end you can often only see a skeleton - as if a large whale had stranded here. Thank you 👍