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- Bolts
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- Caulking
- Central Deckhouse and Mast
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- Choice of Colors
- Construction of the New Gunwale
- Construction of the Deckhouses
- Docking Blocks
- Eight Tree Trunks
- Emmanuel V. Riginos
- False Keel
- “Faneromeni’s” Engine Compatrment
- “Faneromeni's” Instruments
- “Faneromeni’s” Naval Construction Plans
- Fanouris Vasileiou
- First Phase of “Faneromeni’s” Reconstruction…
- Francis Type 2000 Two Speed
- Friends and the Dogs
- George Mytilhnaios
- Greek Vernacular Boatbuilding
- Halkitis Shipyard
- Homeric Cultural Center of the Municipality of Chios
- Ilias Veloudis
- Installation of Balast and a False Keel
- Installation of the Ballast
- Installation of the Onan AC Generator
- Interior Arrangements
- Kanakis
- Keel Change
- Kelvin
- Kokinos Vraxos
- Kostas A. Damianidis
- Koupetoris Shipyard
- Major Overhaul of the Kelvin Engine
- Mastheads
- Mastro
- Modification of the Stern Deckhouse (Pilothouse)
- Name Choice
- Naxos
- Nikitas Prasinos
- Nikos E. Riginos
- Notis Bilias
- Odysseas, a ship from Ithaca, 1837-1841
- Pachos Papastefanou
- Patriarch Bartholomew
- Perama
- Peter Throckmorton
- Recessed Technique
- Reconstruction of the Ribs
- Re-installation, after the overhaul, of the boat’s Kelvin engine and…
- Removal of the Old Bridge
- Removal of the Old Gunwale
- Re-Nailing
- Replacement of the Gunwale
- Replacement of the Keel
- Rolando Rapues Jr.
- Samiopoula
- Schooner
- Several Places in Greece
- Strati Afaloniati
- Stratis Afaloniatis Lumber Yard
- Submerging the Tree Trunks in the Sea
- Thanasis Dritsoulas
- Τhe Sea Remembers
- Tigraki (Little Tiger)
- Transporting the Tree Trunks from Lesvos
- Trunks are Transported to Mastro-Pachos’ Workshop
- Vasilis E. Riginos
- Vasilis Vallas
- Vasilis Zairopoulos
- Viron E. Riginos
- Yiannis Kakouris
- Yiannis Vlassopoulos
George Mytilineos
In 1991 I sailed with “Faneromeni” to the island of Skiathos in order to uncover her origin. I was aware, of course, that George Mytilineos, who built her, had passed away many years ago. Nevertheless, I had hopes of discovering some information about her.
As soon as I moored in the harbor of Skiathos, a man-he was not very old-approached and told me that he recognized “Faneromeni” because she was built by his uncle, Mastro George Mytilineos, in 1945. He himself was an apprentice to his uncle at that time and had actually worked on the “Faneromeni”.
He also remembered that the boat had been built to order for someone from the village of Ayios Ioannis in Pelio named Fanouris. In addition, he told me that his uncle’s shipyard was still in existence near the edge of the harbor but it was no longer a shipyard: it was a restaurant named Carnayio.
(Archive of the Mytilineos family)
Skiathos, May 1991.
(Archive of Nikos E. Riginos)
We actually visited the restaurant together. The only reminder of the Mytilineos’ shipyard is the display of old shipwright’s tools on one of the walls.
Skiathos, May 1991.
(Archive of Nikos E. Riginos)
I was saddened by this.
After the nephew showed me the restaurant, he told me that two of Mastro George Mytilineos’ sisters were still alive. I expressed my desire to visit them.
Indeed we were soon at their house, a short distance from the harbor. It is a nice old stone house, not too big, near the sea, and with a good view of the bay.
Skiathos, May 1991.
(Archive of Nikos E. Riginos)
When the sisters learned from their nephew that I had arrived with the “Faneromeni” they hugged me and started crying.
They remembered well the building of “Faneromeni,” and they started telling me stories about their brother during that time.
I, too, was very moved imagining the man who built my caïque and thinking of the beginning of her life.
I spent a long time with them. They were sweet and warm ladies.
I promised them to send them photographs of “Faneromeni” when I returned home. And I did send photos, enclosed in a letter.
Next day, when I cast off from the harbor, I sailed the caïque by their house and blew “Faneromeni’s” horn as a greeting. Immediately they came out and waved their kerchiefs and kept waving until they were no longer visible.
This was one more very emotional day that I experienced thanks to “Faneromeni”. Even today, when I think back on it, I feel moved.