The development of Wooden Boat Building techniques led to the opening up of the world as never before. Whilst boats made of materials such as bark and reeds or animal hides stretched over lightweight frames, had been used since prehistoric times, it was not until mankind learnt to use timber, in a form other than the simple hollowed out log; that travel by water became more than a local excursion.

Much experimentation over many centuries, with materials and methods of both construction and propulsion, led to wooden boats growing in size to become mighty ships, this led to world wide systematic exploration, which was followed by trade and conquest. By the time wooden boats and ships were replaced by the modern examples constructed of iron and steel; or aluminium or fibreglass the whole world had been discovered, mapped and irretrievably linked together.

The crowning glory of the wooden boat age was the “Great Republic” the largest commercial wooden sailing vessel ever built. The three and four masted super sailors; “clipper” ships like the cutty sark; which plied the seas transporting tea and wool and grain, were mostly composite vessels made of timber over steel frames and can’t really be called wooden boats. Their reign over the seas lasted but a few years before they too were gone and with them the many of the traditional wooden boat building skills.

Today wooden boat building exists mainly in a few traditional areas still building small fishing or transportation vessels (mostly in third world countries) and to the world of pleasure boating. Sail and motor boats of all sizes, as well as dingys, dorys and other forms are still being constructed by craftsmen and a now growing band of enthusiasts.

Wooden Boat Building associations and clubs are springing up all over the world and schools dedicated to teaching what were mainly traditionally handed down crafts are found throughout England Europe and North America. Dedicated volunteers are signing on to restoration or replica projects and more and more individuals are committing themselves to building wooden boats.

There is nothing more satisfying than seeing the finished product, of sometimes months or even years of work, reach fruition by firstly surviving its launching and then proving itself seaworthy.

What are you going to do this winter, watch reruns on TV, worry about the midriff bulge or get out into your garage or workshop and get to work building a beautiful wooden boat. Then when spring arrives you can look forward to spending some time on the water, fishing, sailing, motoring about; whatever the project you undertake seeing it come to fruition will be a wonderful reward for some fulfilling winter work.

Timber is just the most wonderful material to work with it is buoyant, cheap, widely available and easily worked and the satisfaction of creating something from a natural traditional living material cannot exaggerated; even if the method and tools you may chose to use are modern, just working with wood takes you back to much simpler times when skill and craftsmanship were greatly admired. Wooden Boat Building plans and step by step instuctions are readily available, what are you waiting for, get started.

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Crosby, Stills & Nash is the eponymous first album released by Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1969 on the Atlantic Records label. It spawned two Top 40 hits, “Marrakesh Express” and “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” which peaked respectively at #28 the week of August 23, 1969, and at #21 the week of October 25, 1969, on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The album itself peaked at #6 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart.

Song Info:
Released 1969
Genre Rock
Length 5:29
Label Atlantic
Writer Stephen Stills
Paul Kantner
David Crosby
Composer David Crosby

“Wooden Ships” is a rock song written and composed by David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Paul Kantner (of Jefferson Airplane) in the late 1960s. The song was written and composed in Florida on Crosby’s boat. Crosby composed the music, and Stills and Kantner wrote most of the lyrics

Lyrics:
Stills: If you smile at me, I will understand
‘Cause that is something everybody everywhere does
in the same language.
Crosby: I can see by your coat, my friend,
you’re from the other side,
There’s just one thing I got to know,
Can you tell me please, who won?
Stills: Say, can I have some of your purple berries?
Crosby: Yes, I’ve been eating them for six or seven weeks now,
haven’t got sick once.
Stills: Probably keep us both alive.

Wooden ships on the water, very free and easy,
Easy, you know the way it’s supposed to be,
Silver people on the shoreline, let us be,
Talkin’ ’bout very free and easy…
Horror grips us as we watch you die,
All we can do is echo your anguished cries,
Stare as all human feelings die,
We are leaving – you don’t need us.

Go, take your sister then, by the hand,
lead her away from this foreign land,
Far away, where we might laugh again,
We are leaving – you don’t need us.

And it’s a fair wind, blowin’ warm,
Out of the south over my shoulder,
Guess I’ll set a course and go…

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Many of us, all of us, need something to build, houses, building, even a boat, but not everyone of us know how to build it, in this point we need nice plans to make what we’re going to build comes true. Boat, as you can imagine, is hard to build, that is why we need good boat plan. It can be obtained from companies specialized in the service or freelancers. But though, if we want to build it by ourselves, it takes a lot of time to plans and how if the plans not workng as we expected.

To learn more about Boat Plans, please visit :

http://www.TrustMyGuide.com/boatplans

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“I am experiencing difficulties in uploading my entry onto the ABC’s Fanging it website so rather than have nothing come of my weekends work I have uplloaded it here and hope the ABC will view it and hopefully give me some useful feedback.”

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