The shipyard bustles with activity as laborers collaborate to build and repair boats—from personal schooners to trading galleons. In one bay, five carpenters assemble carefully shaped ribs of a new ship’s keel, the skeleton of a hull gradually becoming visible through their work. Outside, two-man teams use meticulously filed saws to cut enormous timbers into planks, ribs, and spars. One of the yard’s drydocks is gradually being flooded to allow a newly-completed vessel to float out to sea, and delivered to its proud new owners.
