On 2017-12-15 3:13 PM, Ed Minch wrote:
> The idea of building a ship in a day - even a small one - has been poking at
me for the last few days.  There are just too many tasks to be completed to fit
them into a day,  So I thought about the Liberty ships of WWII.  There were a
lot of yards building these things, and even though they got it down to about 40
days start to finish, they could say they were completing 3 a day.
>
> So maybe the one-day represented how often one was finished, not how long it
took to build one.

Yes. It's clear from the links I sent that they had a production line 
going ( on a canal ), as well as specialist departments making rope, 
oars, masts and other components.

Don

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