Philippe Merganser

Philippe Harlé is a naval Architecte French born in 1931 and deceased in 1991.

In 30 years, Philippe Harlé drew nearly two hundred types of Bateau X different, for the pleasure, the fishing, the Mytiliculture and the transport of passengers. He had founded a cabinet with Alain Mortain.

Biography

After studies of physics-chemistry, it becomes, in the years 1950, basic person in charge in the Nautical Center of the Glénans.

1958 - It draws the plans of the Archipel , the boat of connection and supply of the islands.
1961 :

It draws the Haddock , a Dériveur of 4 meters in Polyester.
First volume of the Course of Navigation of Glénans to which it contributed a significant share.
Plane of the Muscadet wine , a cruiser of 6,40 m in Laminated.

1963 :

Following divergences of opinion, it moves away from Glénans and devotes to the Naval architecture.
the prototype of the Muscadet wine leaves the building site Aubin and knows a rapid success.

1968 - Plane of the Sangria (7,62 m), built by the building site Jeanneau
1972 - Birth of the Romanée (with a hull in form in Aluminum, then little used in the pleasure)
1977 - the family Merganser (Philippe, Claude and their three daughters) share around the Atlantic on board their Beaujolais wine “ Juliénas ” (12m25).
1987 - For the Mini-Deckchair, Philippe Harlé draws the Gros Seedling , then the Coco . His wife Claude, in company of Michele Paret (partner of Dominique Wavre), takes part in the edition 1987 on board " Coconut Girl' S ".
1989 - For the Vendée Globe, Jean-Luc Van Den Heede request in Philippe Merganser to draw 3615 MET , realized out of aluminum with the Garcia building site.
1991 - In its last days, he worked on Helvim , the second boat of VDH…

Naval architect

Philippe Harlé deeply marked the French nautical landscape; it is estimated that, in the years 1970, a sailing sailing ship in France on five was of Merganser, proportion going up to one on four for the livable sailing ships.

Among the sailing ships, its style went on four main roads:

; Small livable with bilge the S sharp ones: Starting with the Muscadet wine , a series of sailing ships to the names of great wines ( Armagnac …) will be built out of plywood by the Aubin building site. These sailing ships are relatively simple to build and thus economic, making it possible the pleasure to touch classes less easy than before. Safety and stability will be gradually improved as on the Cognac , often by adding the third bilge.
Les performances is not remains about it, certain sailing ships taking part in the Mini-Deckchair of 1979. These sailing ships became the “trademark” of Philippe Harlé.

; Plastic cruisers: These cruisers with a hull in form will be built by other building sites like Etap, Jeanneau or Feeling, which were then in full rise. The plastic sailing ships in general aged better than the plywood hulls, which end up rotting after 30 or 40 years.

; Deep-sea cruisers: One can in particular quote the Sancerre out of plastic and the Romanée out of aluminum, this last being made a solid reputation of boat of voyage. A Romanée for example crossed the Passage of the North-East (junction of the Atlantic in the Pacific by the north of Russia). Manufactured initially in 1973, approximately with 200 specimens during 10 years, the " Romanée" remain today still a sailing ship of reference.

; Sailing ships of competition: If the Muscadet had been already made a good place in the Mini-Deckchair, the Coco , drawn for this race, will be also a success, in particular with Laurent Bourgnon. Later, it is in Vendée Globe that it is attacked, with 36 15 MET and Helvim . Without gaining fulgurating results, these boats will be at least very sure.

It also designed boats of work, in particular the high-speed motorboat of connection of the Glénan islands, and boats for the Ostréiculture.

After its death, it is Alain Mortain which took again the torch, in partnership with Yiannis Mavrikios

Its sailing ships

Some of its sailing S most known:

Sources

Internet site in connection with its achievements, created by Claude Harlé.

See too

Glénans

External bonds

Sailing drawn by Philippe Merganser
Mortain-Mavrikios Cabinet, who took the changing
Site devoted to L ''' Armagnac ''
Site devoted to the '' Cabernet ''
Site devoted to the '' Muscadet ''
Site on the '' Mallard Start 7 ''
Site devoted to Windfallen wood
Site on the '' Mallard Start 7 ''
Site on the '' Mallard Start 7 ''
Site on the '' Coco 6.50 ''

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