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- noun The construction of a
boat or boats.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Folks who work with their hands, who actually build stuff (which excludes lots of folks with Ph. Ds, even many in hard sciences like physics) realize that precision is either essential (machining parts) or marginal (boatbuilding).
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That illustrates another recent trend: Chinese companies are expanding into high-end boatbuilding, a field traditionally dominated by the Americans and Europeans.
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Hussey's cedar-and-oak "peapod," newly built at a boatbuilding shop on the mainland, has none of that.
Nat Hussey: Maine Lobsterman Pulls Traps By Hand For 'Zero-Carbon Lobster Harvesting' 2010
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Covey Island Boatworks, award winning builders of hand-crafted yachts, power and sailboats, has brought that idea into dry dock developing a prototype wood and epoxy prefab that applies boatbuilding principles directly to an extreme Arctic home.
2008 January | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World 2008
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Wood is the oldest boatbuilding material and the best, according to Covey Island Boatworks.
PREFAB FRIDAY: A ‘House Boat’ for the Arctic | Inhabitat 2008
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A true Mullach (his family have lived here for generations), he went to college to learn boatbuilding and boatyard management before living and working in Southampton for a while.
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Covey Island Boatworks, award winning builders of hand-crafted yachts, power and sailboats, has brought that idea into dry dock developing a prototype wood and epoxy prefab that applies boatbuilding principles directly to an extreme Arctic home.
PREFAB FRIDAY: A ‘House Boat’ for the Arctic | Inhabitat 2008
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Rocking the Boat uses traditional wooden boatbuilding and on-water education to help young people develop into empowered and responsible adults.
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Rocking the Boat uses traditional wooden boatbuilding and on-water education to help young people develop into empowered and responsible adults.
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Rocking the Boat uses traditional wooden boatbuilding and on-water education to help young people develop into empowered and responsible adults.
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