The essex shipbuilding museum stands as a living testament to the wooden shipbuilding industry and the neighboring boat yard owned by generations of the story family still constructs and launches. Excerpt from "fame", a documentary on wooden boat builder harold burnham of essex, ma. director and videographer albert viator. music by ye mariners all. part of the massachusetts folk arts. The anglia boatbuilders association were established in 1997, and act as a forum for the boat builders and associated trades of norfolk, suffolk, essex and cambridgeshire.
Canal boat builders, narrowboat builders & boat fitters. many boat builders offer canal and narrowboat builds, fitting out and refit services. most narrowboat builders specialise in all steel hulls with diesel engines to a variety of styles. many have 'off-the-shelf' standard canal boat styles which usually allow for some interior customisation.. Boat builders in the year 2003 have looked carefully at the problems of maintaining traditional style boats, particularly wooden boats, and the use of modern varnishes has greatly reduced maintenance whilst retaining their original appearance.. Boatbuilding, and boat design, along with sailing, were an early obsession; i made boat building my career (a few years after completing a university degree) with an apprenticeship at arthur holt’s yard at heybridge basin, near maldon, essex, starting in 1978..
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