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La Maison Du Pastel
La Maison du Pastel provides hand-made pastels since 1720. The luminosity and adhesive quality to the support of the 1650 colours developed by Henri Roché for artists like Degas made its reputation.
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Micheline Lamarre Hadjis, Artist, painting, art, Acrylic, Exotic, Floral, Flowers, Aquatic, Fantasy
Paintings in acrylic and mixed media of exotic flowers and marine scenes of tropical fish, artist, acrylic, exotic, floral,,colourful, aquatic, fantasy, in the style of Georgia O'Keeffe, Henri Rouseau, Rousseau
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FROG'S LEAP Wauquiez Centurion 49 Sailing Sloop - Edwin Muth
Sailing Vessel Frog's Leap This brand has been a well kept secret in the USA. It has suffered from not being marketed to the masses. Sure, people know french boats,clearly there are two brands, J and B, B bought J, but as I show up in places no one knows W. Not only are they unknown, but they are very difficult to find. The owners, like myself, get posessed by the boat, and become very involved. There is a very active group on Yahoo.com, and these stay on the market a very short time. The reason, of course, is that the brand is less known, and more importantly, the value is not well known at all. Wauquiez still remains a high quality brand today, long after Henri Wauquiez died. The company, founded in 1965, followed a tradition of quality, with the philosophy that boats have a Soul. These are semiproduction boats, not built by the thousands each year. Mine is hull 47, about nine or ten years into the production of the Centurion 47 design which preceded the 49. That is about five boats a year for this model.
Thequality of the boat shows. I am the typical Wauquiez owner. I love the boat for its character and looks, I love that it performs reasonably well for a cruising boat(PHRF rating of 72), I want a boat that is secure on the ocean and in a storm, and finally, I could not afford a Swan. So, I settled for a Swanabee. When this boat was built, its price wassignificantly less than a Swan of equivalent performance and size, but the difference in quality is hardly felt.
They say when you sail one of these, the boat does not creak. And it is mostly true.
See http://www.wauquiez.com/ for the current company's front page, and an interesting history of the Wauquiez yard can be found in the tribute to Wauquiez which was published in the french sailing magazine Voiles et Voiliers
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