Moving your boat, Turkish style (6 photographs each around 30kb)

[demonboy]

Some photographs from about half an hour ago. Another gullet rolls off the production line and out the shed. Of course in typical Turkish fashion they built the thing first and then worried about obstructing trees and electricity cables afterwards, but sure enough they succeeded and it's on its way up the road as we speak:

Er, mind that tree......

Another one in the pipeline.....

 

[Norman_E]

There are some very skilled wooden boat builders in Turkey, some of them very small firms, building gulets. When first launched they often take on quite a bit of water, then the wood swells and everything is OK.

The worst problem I have seen was a very small team slowly building a big gulet in the open air at Bozburan. Rainwater had caused some of the hull planking to rot, and part of the almost completed hull was being re-planked prior to first launch.

 

[ccscott49]

Looks quite nice, what timber do they use for the planking?

 

[Norman_E]

I don't know about that boat, which may be hardwood, but most appear to be framed with hardwood and planked with pine.

 

[demonboy]

You know I'm not sure about that. I think Norman is right about the pine though. When they varnish those babies they certainly look like pine planks.

You should see them doing a repair job. Sledgehammer and pickaxe to get the old wood out, shove a new piece in and hey presto, repair complete.