Interesting 12 minute vid of wood boat building during WW2 in England

[sestoppelman]

This is the same work I did here for nearly 30 years only with much smaller crews. Tools and methods are pretty much the same though.

I almost wax nostalgic watching it,,, almost...

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

This is the same work I did here for nearly 30 years only with much smaller crews. Tools and methods are pretty much the same though.

I almost wax nostalgic watching it,,, almost...

I spent ten years building and doing repairs on boats but they were mostly fibreglass. Wooden Shipwrights were artists every bit as much as sculptors and painters.