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City founders? galleon replica being restored
Contractor hopes vessel wM become tourism draw
By STEWART YERTON
Business writer
Vernon Boudreaux is a building contractor with a sense of history. He has restored French Quarter homes, refurbished Mississippi River steamboats and is now helping convert a 19th-century school in Algiers into luxury apartments.
But perhaps no project has been more rooted in New Orleans history than the job Boudreaux is working on at a shipyard on the Industrial Canal. There Boudreaux is restoring a replica of Le Pelican, the French galleon that brought the founders of New Orleans to Louisiana in the late 17th century.
The original Pelican was captained by Pierre leMoyoe, Sieur d?Iberville, who estab-
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A replica of Le Pelican, the ship that brought Iberville and Bienville to New Orleans, is being renovated at a shipyard on the Industrial Canal. Le Pelican's owner hopes the ship will be finished in three months and will find a permanent home in New Orleans.
Vemon Boudreaux, the ship owner's consultant, slowly carves out rotted wood in the ship's stem Wednesday.
STAFF PHOTOS BY JENNIFER ZDON