Sentence examples for boat construction from inspiring English sources

"There's a sort of abstract relationship between our building and real boat construction," Mr. Maskin said.

I spoke with Mr. Dow at his shop recently, and I asked him if he had grown up in Brooklin in a family tradition of wooden boat construction.

T. arjuna, of Southeast Asia; T. hilariana, of tropical America; T. obovata, of the West Indies and South America; and T. superba, of West Africa yield woods used for cabinetwork, tools, and boat construction.

About 37,000 holes in the planks were plugged with putty: "The boat looked as though it had been attacked by a mob of chewing-gum addicts," Tom Vosmer, the director of the boat construction project, writes in the catalog, published by Smithsonian Books.

Other significant developments were the creation, in 1935, of fiberglass, which changed the nature of boat construction; the decline of commercial fishing in the latter half of the 1900s because of polluted waters and regulations against overfishing; and the recent recession, which has reduced the demand for recreational craft.

Findings can also be potentially further explored for application to other type of traditional timber boat construction for inter-island sea transportation services of goods and people in Indonesia, and perhaps also for other archipelago developing nations as well.

There is some light manufacturing, chiefly metal fabrication and fibreglass-boat construction.

Manufacturing activities are generally limited to small-scale and cottage industries, such as sawmilling, rice and flour milling, wood and timber processing, small-boat construction, weaving, and beadworking.

Canvas or other fabric over battens, following the basic Arctic skin-boat construction, is used in small folding boats and in kayaks, which were inspired in design and construction by the Eskimo skin kayak or hunting boat.

The German shipbuilding effort largely abandoned surface warship construction and instead focused on U-boat construction in the final years of the war.

Of the other ships only one was completed; the other two were canceled later in the war when production requirements shifted to U-boat construction.