Part of the elegance of a traditional wooden hull is the way the planks twist and roll in their journey from stem to stern. The builder makes it all look easy-as though those planks grew that way and were only waiting to be fastened into place. In reality, there is quite a lot of preparation to make it happen. First, information required to fabricate the plank is recorded on a spiling batten that has been wrapped around the molds.
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