The News, Culture and Practice of Sailing woodenboats
in Australia, New Zealand & The South Pacific.
Five Hundred Miles from the sea
The small boats take five people about a month to construct. The planks are made from a timber from the Congo. It appears that the supply of this timber has dried up and many boats were on shore half finished with no work going on. A small fishing boat hull costs about 3 million Ugandan Shillings
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