Julien Blondeau, is a trainee ship's carpenter from the
Brittany boat building school, Ateliers de L'Enfer, based in
Douarnenez.
He has already completed one exchange visit to a boat
building project in Cornwall, England, and is now at The ILEN School of Wooden Boat Building in Limerick, Ireland for a further four week
training programme.
His exchange visits are being funded by the European Social Fund.
The ILEN School is the National Centre for Wooden Boat
Building in Ireland, is staffed mostly by volunteers and is currently looking
for people trained as carpenters who might wish to contribute their experience and
assist with projects and workshop supervision.