A specialist in custom wooden spars, the Breton shipyard WoodSpars was chosen to build the new foremast for the famous Granville bisquine, a project that blends respect for authenticity with modern techniques.
In the spring of 2025, the WoodSpars shipyard, based in Locmariaquer in the Morbihan region of Brittany, took on a major challenge: building the new foremast for "La Granvillaise," a replica of an 1897 bisquine and a true emblem of the maritime heritage of the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel.
Faced with the wear and tear of its original mast and the closure of the shipyard tha...