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Albaola Maritime Culture Factory is a shipyard museum in the town of Pasai San Pedro in Gipuzkoa. There Albaola Association XVI. A scientific replica of the 19th century San Juan whaling ship is being built in public, using the techniques and materials of the time. For this reason, in 2015 the construction process of the whaleboat obtained the protection of UNESCO. During 2018, it received 63,000 visitors.

In the cold waters of Newfoundland in the 20th century. At the end of the century, the remains of a Basque ship were found. After analyzing the remains of the ship and the old documents of Gipuzkoa from those times, they found out that they belonged to the San Joan whaling ship, which was sunk by a storm in that bay.

By the 19th century, the Basques were fishing for whales and cod, and they established advanced fishing posts in Labrador and Newfoundland. The biggest of them was in Red Bay: it had about 900 people, and 15 whaleboats went every year. The remains of the San Juan whaleship were found in that bay. Today, in the town of Red Bay, there is the Museum of Basque Whalers, which displays a boat recovered from the San Joan whaling ship.

The Albaola Association was founded by Xabier Agot in 1997 in America. The Rockland Apprenticeshop in Maine in the 19th century. Between January and May 1998, they built a century-old Basque fishing trainer. Brought to the Basque Country, the trainer traveled from port to port for 29 days, each stage with local rowers (350 in total). It was then that the Albaola association was created, as an organization that would receive and take care of the trainer's donation had to be created. He later studied the remains found in Red Bay and promoted the project of making a replica of the whaler San Juan.

The Apaizac Obeto expedition was organized in Canada in 2006 to recover the traces left by the whalers of the Basque Country in Newfoundland and along the St. Lawrence River. They sailed in a traditional trainer called a Beothuk. It was a replica of the old whaling boat found by Canadian marine archaeologists in the cold waters of Labrador, built in Pasaia by members of the Albaola association. In 2006 Jon Maia published a book chronicling the expedition, and in 2011 he directed a documentary film.