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The craft of wooden boats, kept alive

Original, well-researched articles in English — with versions in Portuguese and Spanish via the language button. Written by Marcos Vieira.

Wooden hull frame taking shape in a traditional boatshop

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The Craft of Wooden Boatbuilding: Why Timber Still SailsSteam-bent frames, carvel and clinker hulls, and the boatwrights keeping a thousand-year craft alive. Why wooden boats endure in the age of fiberglass.

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