Photos • Evgeniy Gvozdev & ‘Said’
All quotations accompanying these photos are extracts from an article by Bernie Harberts.
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Evgeniy Gvozdev
He describes what it's like to build the tiny sailboat in post-Soviet Russia. “Big problem. I am old man,” he said. “No money. No material. I walk on Russian street. Look wood. Look metal.”
Kitchen boatyard
He unfolds a well-fingered photo of a minute but fully rigged sailboat lashed to the side of an apartment building. “I build hull in cook room and finish on side of house”, he said.
Television and soccer
His first boat ended up in a museum and he soon grew bored back home, watching television and soccer.
Caspian Sea to Gibraltar
“From Caspian Sea I sail to Gibraltar," he said. "Ninety-three days. Las Palmas to Rio de Janeiro.”
Six inches longer than a dinghy
He describes what it’s like to be at sea 120 days in a vessel that’s six inches longer than my dinghy.
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