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Redd's Pond Boatworks: Traditional Wooden Boat Builders, Marblehead, MA
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The boats I like and have always liked on the water are integrated structures of wood and mechanical fasteners. Just as trees vary in their look and habits, woods with different characteristics find differing uses in boat construction. Likewise, different waters and people have developed widely varied types of vessels. Because the boats must float, they require attention to the details of every part. With this attention to detail and the desire for smooth motion through the water, boats have been among the most beautiful human constructions everywhere in the world.
Deciding on the right boat for you involves a large numbers of factors both practical and aesthetic. A boat's operation in the water will test her structure. Since over heavy structure will detract from a boat's performance, we seek a balance between use, weight and strength. The constantly varying stresses in a seaway produce flex in the boat's shape. Boat builders over the last ten thousand years have developed boat structures which use the unique characteristics of wood to advantage. These characteristics arise from wood's primary purpose; evenly distributing the force of wind from the trees outer leaves and branches, to the roots in the ground. What works great for trees works equally well for your boat. Wood bends in beautiful fair curves, and flexes and returns to shape as strains are distributed throughout the structure.
Whether your boat is lapstrake or caravel, 12 feet long or 30 feet long, wood has long proven ideal for building boats. Wood naturally takes the fair forms that make a boat functional and beautiful. The complex structural engineering behind the shape is itself beautiful in the classic wooden boat. Wood is uniquely resilient, insulating, dampening and workable. Different species of wood exhibit different characteristics.
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