Richard, if you liked 'Acorn to Arabella', you need to read 'From Tree to
Sea: The Building of a Wooden Steam drifter', 1985, by Ted Frost.
Apprenticed as a shipwright in 1916, he describes boat traditional building
techniques of the 20s and 30s in an East Coast boat yard, with a wonderful
vocabulary of incomprehensible specialist terminology and his own superb
drawings.

best wishes,

Mike

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