La Nonchalante

It’s not I am of early youth
Life has passed under bridges
But the boat is still good
and it’s not time to be lazy
If I disembark i’ll have nothing to do
But getting drunk in the harbour café
Missing, like one heart on board
In the hold, the beating engine

Chorus :
La Nonchalante, la Nonchalante, we are not going to part that way
I without your hull, you without my arms, la Nonchalante
La Nonchalante, la Nonchalante, we can’t forget all this
They might say what they want, we are leaving, la Nonchalante

Since the late 30′s
we saw many freights
Locks and bad weather
Would you be sailing upstream or downstream
Sun dissolving the haze
Canal du Midi under the moon
End of the weeks in Conflans
There were good moments too

chorus

Some say we are out of age
Both of us at the end of the rope
That I should be sent to hospital
and you should be brought to be cut out
But as we pass the last lock
We’ll leave on the great blue sea
We”ll go as far as we can
I’d like so much to see Syracuse

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I didn’t know of Percy’s tie-in with knotting either. Thanks for an item about Percy, and for the IGNT Surrey branch link. It appears there aren’t many loops in their knot chart listing. I did see that a fair number of the knot charts as listed are by Percy, including the brilliant and IMO under-used Zeppelin bend http://www.surreyknots.org.uk/55-rosenthal-zeppelin-knot.htm and I thought I’d pass on a recent innovation by the irrepressible Yrvind of developing that bend into a Zepplin loop http://www.yrvind.com/various.html Brilliant!

Graeme

Thank you so much if you can help.

I’d also say that deciding design changes on the basis of the model could get you into trouble – with a cheap, easily worked material, I’d suggest building the boat as drawn and getting experience with it before making changes.

Gavin

It appears to be unavailable or restricted.

Gavin