Bodrum builds by eye
Bodrum has built wooden boats for longer than it has sold holidays, and the method has not changed as much as the town around it. Frames are set up on the hard, planks are bent to whatever shape those frames make, and the drawing is produced afterwards, for the registry.
There are fewer yards than there were. The ones left are working, and what they build now is not always what they were built to build.
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Planking without a drawing
In the Bodrum yards the frames are set up by eye and the lines are lifted off the finished hull afterwards, for the registry — the drawing follows the boat.
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Frames standing on the hard
What a gulet actually is as a type, and why a 24-metre hull winters under tarpaulins between the road and the water.
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The yards that are left
Bodrum's working yards have contracted as the town turned to tourism; what remains, and what they build now.
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The timber, and what holds it together
Iroko, larch and the copper fastenings underneath, and why a wooden hull is a maintenance schedule rather than a material.
