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unusual facts about Boat building


Kincumber, New South Wales

Boat building became an early local secondary industry after timber-getting, to meet the primary necessity of water transport.


Isaac E. Smith

Isaac Edgar Smith (January 21, 1858 – September 27, 1940) was a boat builder based in Port Washington, New York.

Salme ships

The Salme ships are two pre-Viking era clinker-built ships that were discovered in 2008 near Salme village in Saaremaa, Estonia.


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Ali Manikfan

The ship, named after the city of Sohar in Oman, was completely hand-made, using traditional boat-building techniques, and no metal was used in its construction.

Boita

The recovery of many woodworking adzes and other artifacts from Chilika Lake shows that Golabai was a boat-building center.

Brooke Marine

Until 1911 the company, which produced engines and motor cars, sub-contracted its boat building operations to another firm in Oulton Broad.

Faering

The small boats found with the 9th century Gokstad ship resemble those still used in Western and Northern Norway, and testify to a long tradition of boat building.

Feroke

Beypore is famous for its boat building yard where mammoth crafts known as Urus are being built.

Glasspar

Bill Tritt had a keen interest in boats and cars before World War II, when he studied marine architecture and boat-building at California State Teacher's College in Santa Barbara, California.

Lowestoft College

The Sir Christopher Cockerell building was opened in April 2007 by Lord Somerleyton and Frances Cockerell, daughter of Sir Christopher Cockerell CBE FRS, housing the Construction trades, Boat Building and Computer Aided Design.

Mark Woodnutt

Harold Frederick Martin Woodnutt (23 November 1918 – 6 November 1974), known as Mark Woodnutt, was a British Conservative Party politician, chartered secretary and company director of Woodnutts - a boat-building firm at Bembridge on the Isle of Wight.

North Pacific Yachts

North Pacific Yachts are built by Ningbo Fuhua Boat Building in Ningbo, China.

Oare Marshes

There is a history of boat building and repair of historic boats and Thames Sailing Barges in the creeks.

Peon

(In an unrelated South Asian sense, "peon" may also be an alternative spelling for the poon tree (genus Calophyllum) or its wood, especially when used in boat-building.

SAI Ambrosini

During the 1980s, the firm ventured into boat-building (including Azzurra, Italy's first America's Cup contender) and eventually into oil rigs before closing in 1992.