Katherine Bickford

Sans Peur at the Comox Marina

I’m never satisfied with simply shooting images and videos – in need to know what I’m looking at, understand it, and in many cases share what I find.

Well here we go…

Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard (1473 – 30 April 1524) was a French soldier. You may be wondering what the heck that has to do with this fishing boat that I saw at the Comox Marina.

Terrail was generally known as the Chevalier de Bayard, and later as “the knight without fear and beyond reproach”. In French, that’s “le chevalier sans peur et sans reproche”.

Sans Peur – without fear. Now we know a bit about a French soldier and what the name of the boat means, but there’s more:

• Built: 1967, J. Sawyer, Burnaby B.C.
• Material: Steel
• Gross Tonnage: 49.15 t
• Net Tonnage: 33.42 t
• Length: 15.42 m
• Breadth: 5.18 m
• Depth: 2.23 m
• Propulsion: 200 HP diesel,single screw
• Speed: 10 Knots

and now you know…